IsThe real reason for going on about global warming the fact were running out of oil by using it to quickly?

Question

is the global warming issue is a cover story for the fact were running out of oil and gas and is a gentle way of getting consumers to cut back by fooling them into thinking they are doing their bit without an all out panic whilst the top powers decide how to get us out of this mess
without fossill fuels were up a gum tree hence the move to secure iraq's oil fields to buy us more time
when the oil and gas are all gone will the government tax us on logs we burn to keep warm
how green is that?
how will the general public survive without oil?
will all these vast voids we are causing below earth due to oil extraction cause it to wobble like a car tyre does when its out of balance and effect global warming as well?
your thoughts please

Answer 1

I think that global warming is an entirely natural thing - no doubt helped by solar activity - and it really isn't worth worrying about how much oil we have for a few years yet.

Answer 2

new oil is being discovered at about the same rate as it's being depleted [ the shell oil fiasco notwithstanding] , so it's not that reason.
OIl fields in global terms are pretty small holes , so the change in local gravtational fields would be negligible , especially as the mode of extraction of oil after the intial 'blow' is to pump stuff back into the field to force out some of the residual oil .
Oil as such will never run out, it's a fallacy brought about by the media. What will happen , is that as the supply starts to deplete, the cost will rise and start to reduce demand , for example not much oil is used nowadays for heating , cars are becoming smaller and thus more energy efficient . This may sound a bit like oil is depleting , but it's the effect of OPEC keeping prices higher than they would otherwise be.
if global warming is taking place, then the effects would be terrible if it ever got into a vicious circle [ notwithstanding before that worldwide famines and a serious permanent loss of land - bye bye most of the good bit of the UK for instance] .

Answer 3

We aren't in danger of running out for a long time. Especially now that the Iraqi oil fields have been (more or less) secured.
The oil reserves won't simply run out, either. There are lots of oil reserves in the world, but some of them are more accessible than others. We are approaching a situation where we are running low on easily accessible oil. The problem with the less accessible oil reserves is that they are more expensive to drill and refine. Examples are the reserves in the British Antarctic Territory around the Falkland Islands. All that ice makes it hard to build oil rigs.
As the accessible oil runs out, the price of oil rises, and it becomes economical to extract the less accessible reserves, but alternative fuels also become more economical, which is why various organisations are attempting to develop them.
Vast voids below the earth? There aren't any. You pump water into the oil rich area, in order to pump the oil out.
Surviving without oil? We have at least a couple of centuries of natural gas reserves that we know about, and beyond that there are a number of viable alternatives, such as ethanol and hydrogen, (and not forgeting nuclear energy).
Why then, ae the politicians so concerned about global warming? Because it's real? Possibly. But in Britain at least, it also represents an excuse for the Government to raise taxes, while providing inadequate services (like new roads, frequent refuse colllections etc). Something they seem to love doing.

Answer 4

No, I don't believe this at all. In fact new Oil Reservoirs are being found all the time (I work in the business) and we are far from running out. We do however need to push forward with developing the technology to actually get the stuff out of the ground, we are moving forward in leaps and bounds and it won't be long, before we are able to extract the oil from the ground.

Global warming is a very real and very serious threat and we should all do everything we can to limit the damage that we have already made and try to educate the rapidly developing countries (China springs to mind) to encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Answer 5

A reserve is a proven amount of oil that we can access at today's market prices. Increase the price and the reserves increase dramatically. Our oil shales and coal have more energy than the rest of the world combined. When you add methane hydrates from the ocean floor, we have energy for thousands of years. All ages develop beliefs based on their recent trends. There have been alternate global warming global cooling scares for over a hundred years as the climate fluctuates. Global warming is more a matter of faith than it is about science. We may be in a warming trend and part of a longer term warming trend but it is still subject to natural fluctuations. We are not running out of oil. Jimmy Carter said we would run out of oil in 10 years 30 years ago. Amazing that people forget these prophesies of doom and blithely move on to the next one. Gore is the most recent prophet of doom and he will go down in history as hysterical with a following similar to the Kool-Aid drinking followers of Jim Jones. I don't like to mock religions typically but the global warming religion requires it.

Answer 6

Earth is warming, slightly, due to its normal and natural climatic cycle. It will cool again when the cycle starts its cooling phase and we will hear about 'global cooling' and 'the new ice age' ...again.
Oil is being used rather quickly, but even at today's consumption rate, there is enough oil in the continental US to fuel us for the next 400 years or so, IF ONLY the environazis would let us get it.
The vast voids are being filled with water, sand, and gravel as the oil is extracted.
The earth already wobbles as discovered in the 1800s
The Chandler wobble, named for Seth Carlos Chandler Jr., the scientist who discovered it in 1891, is one of several motions exhibited by Earth as it rotates on its axis, much like a top wobbles as it spins. (http://archives.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/07/18/earth.wobble.enn/)
The government will tax us on anything and everything until we vote them out of office and elect responsible people who will repeal these confiscatory taxes.

Answer 7

No one knows how oil is made, why its made or where it migrates from to create reservoirs. All they can do is analize it and hazzard a guess.
It wont run out simple, check out the Eugene Island Field in the states. One day it runs out and the next its being fed again from somewhere!
They were going to pay millions to decomission it then it all began producing like it was brand new!
So some egg head created a new theory rather than admit he didnt know why called Abiogenic petroleum origin .
And yes say it did run out the Gov. would prob tax logs, farts and the amount of steps you took in a day.
Makes you wonder if everyone in the world spent no cash for one day, used no gas, or electric just sat about and didnt work would there be anyone to tax us the next day?

Answer 8

Limited petroleum resources will be supplanted by the race to control lunar Helium 3 resources as there are plans to do so by the US, Russia and China.

Reading the popular media can lead a person to conclude that "global warming" is:
o- either a hoax to promote business opportunities, politicians agenda and scientists grant money.....
OR
o- a problem related to overpopulation, industrialization and fossil fuels whose solution options lie in solar power, wind power, geothermal power and nuclear fusion....

However, the correct answer may be altogether different:

NASA has released never-before-seen images that show the sun's magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known. The international spacecraft Hinode, formerly known as Solar B, took the images. Hinode was launched Sept. 23 to study the sun's magnetic field and its explosive energy. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists said the spacecraft's uninterrupted high-resolution observations of the sun are expected to have an impact on solar physics comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope's impact on astronomy. "For the first time, we are now able to make out tiny granules of hot gas that rise and fall in the sun's magnetized atmosphere," said Dick Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophyics Division. "These images will open a new era of study on some of the sun's processes that effect Earth, astronauts, orbiting satellites and the solar system." Hinode is a collaborative mission led by
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and includes the European Space Agency and Britain's Particle Physics Astronomy Research
Council. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., managed the development of the Hinode's scientific instrumentation provided by industry and federal agencies.

>>> as regards alternative energy methods, I favor development of the technology for nuclear fusion using lunar Helium 3

Answer 9

No - the earth is warming and the oil will last for quite a while. By the time it runs out, we'll have an alternate source.

Answer 10

"What we should be achieving is the equilibrium between the 2" This would be very difficult to do, seeing as aerosols only have an atmospheric lifetime of at most a few decades, while CO2 has an atmospheric lifetime of up to several hundred years, with some (very few) molecules lasting up to several thousand. "if the scale is tipped on the warming side, we could be ending like Venus ( a planet with lethal greenhouse effect and closer to the sun )" Could we please stop comparing the climate of Venus to Earth's climate? You already mentioned one difference between the two planets (Venus being closer to the sun), lets look at a few more: Earth: 1 AU Magnetic field 1 Satellite Orbital period 365.256366 days Sidereal rotation period 0.997258 d Average orbital speed 29.783 km/s Axial tilt 23.439281° Inclination Reference (0) 7.25° to Sun’s equator Surface pressure 101.3 kPa (MSL) Water clouds 78.08% Nitrogen (N2) 20.95% Oxygen (O2) 0.93% Argon 0.038% Carbon dioxide Trace water vapor (varies with climate) Venus: .7 AU No magnetic field No satellite Orbital period 224.70069 day Sidereal rotation period −243.0185 day Synodic period 583.92 days Average orbital speed 35.02 km/s Axial tilt 177.36° Inclination 3.39471° 3.86° to Sun’s equator Surface pressure 9.3 MPa Sulphur clouds ~96.5% Carbon dioxide ~3.5% Nitrogen .015% Sulfur dioxide .007% Argon .002% Water vapor .0017% Carbon monoxide .0012% Helium .0007% Neon trace Carbonyl sulfide trace Hydrogen chloride trace Hydrogen fluoride And Venus' atmosphere is around 90 times more massive than ours. There is no possible way we could end up like Venus (or Mars). "and many of my professors say for the time being , global warming is more like a political idea than a real scientifically proven one." Theories cannot be proven, and anthropogenic global warming is a theory, but your professors are correct in saying that AGW is mostly political at this time. Too many holes in the theory and too many uncertainties with climate in general. Increased CO2 should cause some warming, how much is not known.