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A personal appeal ->
From the latest Oil & Gas IQ Newsletter:
"When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence"
The Energy Information Agency (EIA) has projected that by the end calendar year 2013, the United States will have surpassed the Russian Federation in natural gas production by some 300 billion cubic feet (8.5 billion m³).
Yet as the US becomes the world's largest natural gas hub, the skies to the north-east of the Flickertail State tell a story of opportunity lost. Above the extent of the Bakken shale play today, some 1,500 gas flares are burning. In fiscal terms, $2.4 billion-worth of gas has literally gone up in smoke since 2011. In terms of greenhouse gasses emission, it equates to the sum of two medium-sized coal power stations of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in the past 24 months.
Around 4.9 trillion cubic feet (140 billion m³) of natural gas per annum are flared worldwide, that's roughly one third of the entire consumption of all 28 states of the European Union combined. As shale gains prominence in the national energy mix of many of the world's developing nations, the lack of infrastructure for processing flare gas should be a serious concern, both environmentally, monetarily and in the utilitarian sense in an age where giant discoveries are infrequent.
We would do well as an industry and a species to treat this issue as vociferously as possible...
With these "super-storms" that have been occurring lately, it's really proving that global warming is capable of producing increasingly dangerous weather. My partner's home province of eastern Samar, Philippines just experienced a scary example of this when it got slammed by a catagory 5+ storm, 200 mph winds and storm surges that resembled tsunami-like conditions. We're still waiting for news on the fate of her family & friends still living there and in neighboring tacloban(10,000 dead so far and complete destruction).
luckily there is a simple solution
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...global-warming
Two prevailing theories. Both curiously anthropogenic.
1) Anthropogenic greenhouse gasses prevent heat energy from escaping into the vacuum of space at the same rate it is produced by the conversion of incident solar radiation. The overflow of heat energy in the climate system produces weather extremes. E.g. A warmer atmosphere has a higher saturation point for water vapor, thus increasing the average time between downpours and conditions for drought. Because there are on average larger volumes of watervapor in the atmosphere than before, each downpour on average is more voluminous than before, increasing the risks of flood. Heat induced fluctuations in wind patterns and ocean currents warm some regions while cooling others.
Suggested modification: Try to cut our overall production of greenhouse gasses, perhaps sequester some of what we do produce.
2) God is fucking pissed off at us for condoning abortion. Televangelist David Barton says, “Abortion was a seed to it,” said Copeland, “that has grown into a murderous, bloody crop of child death.”
Once “you open the door to killing,” Barton added, “” it’s got a lot of different manifestations” because the nation immediately falls under the judgment of God as He removes his protection and “whap, here comes storms like we’ve never seen before and here comes floods and here comes climate stuff that we can’t explain; all of the hot times and all the cold times and not enough rain and too much rain and we’re flooding over here and we’ve got droughts over here … And today we’re saying ‘oh no, it’s global warming.No, we opened a door that lost God’s protection over our environment and that’s our choice.”
Suggested modification: Make abortion illegal, ban birth control and force women who seek abortions to painful vaginal probes.
It seems almost all scientists favor the first theory, particularly those scientists who have taken a professional interest in understanding the balance of energy within the climate system.
The second theory is favored by those who claim to have a direct and personal relationship with the one and true God of the universe. Also those who have a lot of stock in or take kick backs from oil and gas companies tend to favor the second theory.
Wait, there's actually a third theory.
There’s another televangelist, Pat Robertson, who is also a personal friend of the Creator who has on more than one tragic occasion put forward his theory that
3) Homosexuality and the teaching of eeevoloooshun are offensive to God’s apparently finite sensibilities and cause His wet-than-dry-than-wet-again mood swings.
Suggested moderation: send Pat more money.
I think a term that confuses people is global earing. They point and say "hey the winters re worse and longer than eer" etc... so climate change expresses more accurately the greater and more complex impacts of human action on the global environment.
Though maybe pat and his ilk are right. Stop all the fornication and bad behaviour which this site reflects and maybe we'll all have a much better world. (It may mean a few mass executions of the transgendered, gay people and other troublesome groups such as Jews and Muslims) The next day after it all stops the sun sill shine on bright green fields fringed with flowers, lambs will frolic, vicars will bicycle by and the churches will be full of nice ladies in nice hats and men in their Sunday best. There'll be cricket on the green again and al them uppitty foreigners with dark skins will learn their place. Filling their churches with joyous gospel singing for instance or scuttling back to the mosques in safety from skies no longer necessarily full of drones. Ahh the blessed peace of a well ordered world. And that nice white God will stop being in such a strop and restore order to the universe.