[Vision2020] "Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills" 168 Responses
Warren Hayman
whayman at roadrunner.com
Wed Jun 30 19:51:20 PDT 2010
I think we should try to keep our vocabulary in line with actuality. The Gulf oil disaster/irruption is not a spill. Such a term possibly reflects a misunderstanding of both magnitude and geology.
Warren Hayman
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From: Ted Moffett
To: Moscow Vision 2020
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Subject: [Vision2020] "Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills" 168 Responses
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/06/five-thousand-gulf-oil-spills/
Five Thousand Gulf Oil Spills
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— david @ 16 June 2010
That’s the rate that people are releasing carbon to the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion and deforestation today. I know, it’s apples and oranges; carbon in the form of oil is more immediately toxic to the environment than it is as CO2 (although CO2 may be more damaging on geologic time scales). But think of it — five thousand spills like in the Gulf of Mexico, all going at once, each releasing 40,000 barrels a day, every day for decades and centuries on end. We are burning a lot of carbon!
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