Will there be Climate Cooling when the oil runs out ?

Question

At the present rate of pumping out the oil, surely someday it will run dry. What happens then, maybe the oil corps. know something that we don't and are making the most out of it now.

Answer 1

Oil will not last for ever.US is keeping its oil reserves un touched.Future fuel is hydrogen or liquid hydrogen.The source for hydrogen is un ending sea.Exhaust hydrogen will be converted back to water.No pollution.Hydrogen based engines have been developed and commercial production is yet to start.Hydrogen engines will smash the back bones of middle east countries .
But the cooling of climate even after oil run out is not possible.Entropy goes on on incresing and according Prof.Barton,"The world will die a heat death".We can prolong the period that is all.

Answer 2

no there will not be any cooling because the damage being done to the ozone layer is permanent. In fact, one C02 molecule continually breaks down ozone molecules forever, they never go away. The oil companies know that the oil wil run out and are obviously trying to make as much money as possible while its still here, and in turn, as the oil runs out it will become more and more valuable. But another big problem is is that the oil must be there for a reason, it must serve a purpose and that purpose could very well be to help the sliding of tectonic plates, so draining the earth of all the oil will probably cause more earthquakes and tsunamis along with the climate change )-:

Answer 3

Yea, Bob and Gwen and the others are correct. I'd just like to add that we'll never run out of oil completely. What is most likely to happen is oil will become so expensive that all these other alternative fuels that are expensive today will become cheap in comparison to oil in the future. We may actually reach that tipping point within the next 3-5 years. Unfortunately, the tipping point of coal, which is much dirtier than oil, is farther off!

Answer 4

No, the total amount of carbon on the planet stays the same, so once it's pulled out of the ground in oil, then burned and released into the air as CO2 it will stay there for a long time until natural processes gradually work it back into plants and algae, those settle into soil and ocean sediment, and so on.

There's a long "half life" for CO2 remaining in the air, so there may be effects for hundreds of years after we reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Answer 5

The climate will not start cooling. Since oil is made from dead plants and animals it won't run out.

The gas prices are going up right now because of 4 things. Starting from the top, Barrel prices, refineries, taxes, tariffs are the 4 things that control the prices. If we start drilling more the barrel prices will go down. The more refineries we build means more gas to the pumps intern will lower prices. I believe a 1/3 of the price of gas is a tax. Last but least the tariffs need to be lowered on imported oil.

amnesty, you mean CFC's right. In the 80's it was CFC's that destroyed parts of the ozone layer. Look it up and edit yourself. BTW the destroying part was BS anyways.

Answer 6

"OIL" will be available, for many years, and the 'coal supply' will last for 400 to 600 years. While the co2 emissions are a 'safety / health' topic, a SINGLE Mid sized VOLCANIC eruption ,aka 'event' to those in the scientific / geology fields, WILL cause a 'drastic cooling effect', world wide, in a matter of a FEW months, and will last for YEARS.
These events have occurred "THOUSANDS OF TIMES", over the past Four and one Half BILLION (4.5 Billion)years.
There are millions of people who 'worry' about the global warming subject, but never study even the basics of GEOLOGY to learn the FACTS !!!
ALSO, The SUNS radiations and 'SUN SPOTS' have more effect on the earth in one week, than man has had, in the past 15,000 years.

Answer 7

No, the damage is done. All we can do is try to slow it down. And I had not thought about running out of oil until I read your question, but I think that would be the coolest. That's what needs to happen; we need to run out of oil. That would be so much fun watching the white sheets and checkered table cloth head rags run thru' the sand looking for more. And there is no more. Poor Arabs, they lost their bargaining chip.

Answer 8

natural processes that will bury back all the fossil fuels in the ground will take several hundred million years. but an artificial process or several processes that capture CO2 from the atmosphere and store it permanently are theoretically possible, and if such processes were perfected and employed, than in a century or so it would be possible to return the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and water to the pre industrial levels of 400 years ago.

Answer 9

Gwens18a is 100% right.

Natural CO2 levels haven't exceeded 300 ppm for hundreds of thousands of years. We're getting close to 400 and going up fast. Scientists are trying to keep it below 500. If we get it below 400 they'll break out the champaign.

Answer 10

When coal also eventually runs out, then we might have something here. Much of the CO2 emissions come from coal burning at power plants.