Nine groups sue to stop Shell from drilling in the Arctic. This raises some questions about the objectives of the people who donate to these groups. These groups only receive money from donors who believe that by donating they are saving the Environment. Today when accidents happen the oil companies are held financially responsible for the cleanup. Are these groups going to step forward and take financial responsibility for a spill of oil that they prevent the oil companies from harvesting. Say, for example an earthquake opens a crack in the Chukchi Sea, and all of the oil gushes to the surface destroying the subsistence lifestyle of all who live there. Are these groups ready to take responsibility?
What if a new volcanic vent opens under the ANWR and the responding Super Volcanic Event propels us into another Ice Age? Who is going to clean that up?
These groups promote leaving oil and gas underground, when right off shore Santa Barbara oil and gas is seeping into the ocean every day. Are these groups cleaning it up?
If you study history, it is obvious we are in a race with extinction involving nature. All other mass extinctions happened before we appeared, so those extinctions could not have been our fault. But, if we cause our own extinction by ignoring the facts, it definitely will be our fault.
Sulfur Dioxide is released when Volcanoes involve fossil fuels; Sulfur Dioxide reflects energy from the sun and causes global cooling and extinctions. Want to read it for yourself? Go to Sulfur Dioxide at EPA you’ll learn all Sulfur Dioxide is released from burning fossil fuels. Go to Volcanic Gases at USGS You’ll learn Sulfur Dioxide is the No. 3 most abundant volcanic gas, also learn that the more gas, the more explosive the eruption. Proof of global cooling from this phenomenon was collected by satellites that were deployed in 1978. Following the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo a cloud of sulfur dioxide measuring 20 million metric tons cooled the Earth 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, also at USGS.
Google “Super Volcano” and you can learn how many times this has happened. Google “oil seeps” and find out thousands of oil and gas seeps have been located, studied, mapped, photographed and finger printed. Please, if you care about the environment and our future, support oil exploration and harvesting of hydrocarbons wherever they are found.
Steven C Bowhay
Juneau
Comments (7)
Add commentThis guy's a hoot!
All that oil's been down there for a few million years, but we need to go extract it NOW because it poses an imminent threat of release. Priceless.
Oh, and the SO2 and volcanoes. Here I thought they were blaming volcanoes as the source of global warming. But now this guy is blaming them for cooling? They need to get their stories straight.
I like his letters. I hope he keeps writing.
Useful letter
I found this letter very useful and I clipped it out to save. It is a great example of the loss of logic, critical thinking skills and the woeful state of science education in our society. It is also a great example of stringing together random Google searches in place of reasoning.
Guy
I think his letter was meant to be a parody. What else could explain it...?
Lat
Ok. I missed that. Sometime parodies are mistaken for truth, like Ayn Rand.
I think we can all agree that
I think we can all agree that oil, as a fuel, is becoming obsolete. (Even us redneck, flag waving, bible thumpers can see that)
In the next 50 Years, and with advances in storage batteries, hydrogen applications, solar, and other cleaner, and more easily accessible fuel sources, oil will be much less important.
Due to this Alaska should drill its oil now and sell it and use the funds to better prepare for the new future. If we don’t, and oil does become obsolete, Alaska is going to be in the hurt locker…because right now 91% of the general fund comes from oil.
Could be, noroad
Either it becomes obsolete, or more valuable than gold.
I would be more supportive of the 'drill-it-now' approach if I thought that our State leaders would actually "use the funds to better prepare for the new future." Of that I remain unconvinced.
not just fuel
Petroleum is not just fuel but the raw resource of a huge chemical and material industry. I think future generations will criticize us for just burning up this precious limited commodity. Taking only the low hanging fruit.