Are oil and gas pockets in the earth insulators for the extreme heat of the core of the earth and as they are?

Question

extrapolated from beneath the surface, could this lead to Global Warming?

I do know that oil is used as an insulator and cooling substance in some transformers!

dividedbymyself.....says you.. prove it!

can you spell mounangym? lol

Answer 1

I think it might have a very low percentage effect of the insulation of the planet. Humans contribute under 20 percent. The truth: this is a natural cycle of earth and the rest of the planets in our solar system. They are warming up and developing atmospheres. It isn't just earth like they try to sell the unknowing public. It isn't our fault. Our air is actually cleaner than it was 100 years ago, even with all our pollution. Hybrid vehicles actually pollute the air more than gasoline alone. History details these events on several continents of global warming as part of the natural cycle of our solar system. They know this. Global warming is all about big dollars as everything always is with them. Don't buy into their lies.

Answer 2

I don't think there's enough gas in the earth crust to effectively function as an insulator. Also oil is not used as an insulator, also not in transformers as far as I know, but only as a cooling liquid. When the transformer cools because of this, it doesn't mean the oil functions as an insulator, but the opposite (a good thermal conductor) as you want to extract as much heat as possible with the slightest amount of cooling liquid (like oil) as possible. The more liquid you need to pump through the transformer to keep it cool, the more power it costs to do so, so when you want to cool something, you look for a liquid with a high heat conductivity. The higher the thermal conductivity of a material, the less it's isolating value. Gasses insulate better, they are used in isolation materials like styrofoam. It's not the foam itself that insulates, but the air (gasses) trapped in and between the styrofoam bubbles.
The only way the extraction of oil and gas from the earth crust helps to worsen the global warming, is when we burn it, or let the gas (methane) escape in the atmosphere.

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof. It's your idea, you come up with the proof.
Btw, mounaingym says it too, so it must be true :P

Answer 3

The amount of oil and gas is such an insignificant part in the upper crust that it could not act as an effective barrier. Also, the placement of hydrocarbons in some areas, along with the lack in other areas, would be a very poor insulator at best. Global Warming is due to so-called greenhouse gases preventing reflected solar radiation from escaping the Earth; of which previous periods (like the Cretaceous Period) had in abundance.