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A massive lake of molten carbon the size of Mexico is discovered under the US, and it could cause…
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 08:07 EST, 15 February 2017 | Tim Collins

Posted on 02/15/2017 6:25:52 AM PST by Olog-hai

A huge well of molten carbon that would spell disaster for the planet if released has been found under the US.

Scientists using the world’s largest array of seismic sensors have mapped a deep-Earth area, covering 700,000 sq miles (1.8 million sq km).

This is around the size of Mexico, and researchers say it has the potential to cause untold environmental damage.

The discovery could change our understanding of how much carbon the Earth contains, suggesting it is much more than we previously believed. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: carbon; climatechange; climatechangehoax; doomage; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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To: Red Badger

Good point
If it’s molten its not a “ greenhouse gas”
What is the difference between molten carbon and oil?
How long before entrepreneurs figure out how to extract package and sell it?


21 posted on 02/15/2017 6:36:16 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Redcitizen

Women, children, minorities, homosexuals, transgenders, and undocumented immigrants hardest hit.

New and improved victim list.


22 posted on 02/15/2017 6:36:26 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: Olog-hai

Is this satire? Carbon is inert and a simple chemical building block found everywhere. Who writes this stuff? Who believes this stuff?


23 posted on 02/15/2017 6:36:34 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: Red Badger

Wait a minute, I thought oil was produced by decomposing dinosaur bones and stuff.

You mean the earth is constantly reproducing itself and creating more life enhancing resources like Petroleum?

We were lied to by Al Gore and Paul Erlich?

I’m so confused


24 posted on 02/15/2017 6:37:15 AM PST by cyclotic (Republicans Are without excuse. Flood the Resolute Desk with sane legislation.)
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To: Olog-hai

It’s just the Lake of Fire, nothing to worry about.


25 posted on 02/15/2017 6:37:36 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Olog-hai

No lengths are too far in blaming the downfall and eventual destruction of the entire planet on the United States. Its a forgone conclusion that we have already done it and I am fully expecting to be help financially responsible thru increased taxes, fines and penalties as well as possible jail time or even execution at the hands of Terra worshiping environmentalists.


26 posted on 02/15/2017 6:38:51 AM PST by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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To: Olog-hai

If the earth’s core and crust swapped positions tonight, that wouldn’t be good for the planet either. But it COULD happen, so everybody PANIC.


27 posted on 02/15/2017 6:39:20 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Olog-hai

Quick! Tax it!


28 posted on 02/15/2017 6:39:57 AM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Olog-hai

How long until we hear that Americans must pony up taxes, taxes, and more taxes to the UN for research and study on how to solve this most pressing problem?

Maybe Al Gore has the material for a new movie to indoctrinate the Middle School kids.


29 posted on 02/15/2017 6:41:16 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: All

So now the environment will damage the environment. ..


30 posted on 02/15/2017 6:42:39 AM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Olog-hai
Glad I don't live there.


31 posted on 02/15/2017 6:42:40 AM PST by upchuck (Voter fraud is like an iceberg. 90% of it cannot be seen.)
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To: Olog-hai

Wouldn’t that be something like a molten diamond?


32 posted on 02/15/2017 6:44:21 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (GAY MARRIAGE- Like declaring a dog's tail to be a leg giving a dog 5 legs. But it is still a tail!)
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To: cyclotic
You mean the earth is constantly reproducing itself and creating more life enhancing resources like Petroleum?

We were lied to by Al Gore and Paul Erlich?

Dear algore and Mr. Erlich: go pound sand. :-p

33 posted on 02/15/2017 6:44:53 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Uncle Miltie

BEAT me to it!


34 posted on 02/15/2017 6:45:11 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (GAY MARRIAGE- Like declaring a dog's tail to be a leg giving a dog 5 legs. But it is still a tail!)
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To: Olog-hai

Modern journalist ignorance on display.

What they found was CARBONATES - also known as limestone, dolomite, iron ore, potash, etc.

In other words, they, not surprisingly, found molten rock!

Soon to be posted on FR as ‘BREAKING’.


35 posted on 02/15/2017 6:48:57 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: silverleaf; cyclotic

Melting point of CARBON: 3550°C / 6422°F

Melting point of IRON: 1,538°C / 2,800°F


36 posted on 02/15/2017 6:50:33 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

How about a “carbon tax” ?
That ought to cure the problem...


37 posted on 02/15/2017 6:50:34 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: lurk

Carbon is not inert....................


38 posted on 02/15/2017 6:51:09 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: upchuck

It appears that most of this man made natural disaster is located on Federally owned land.

Sounds like a Government problem to me.

Maybe to relieve the pressure, we should set up a bunch of big devices, sort of like drills to bore holes in the ground and pump up some of the liquid being created by the pressurized carbon. Maybe the liquid could be captured and sent in big steel pipes to Texas where they might have facilities to refine the liquid into something useful that we could sell to our people and maybe sell some of the extra to other countries.

Maybe. Could happen


39 posted on 02/15/2017 6:51:17 AM PST by cyclotic (Republicans Are without excuse. Flood the Resolute Desk with sane legislation.)
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To: Olog-hai
It would be impossible to drill far enough down to physically 'see' the Earth's mantle...

Fukushima's meltdown might prove that wrong...

40 posted on 02/15/2017 6:52:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats appoint activist 'judges' to legislate from the bench. WE NEED TO DO THE SAME.)
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