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 ...
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?
Women, children, minorities, homosexuals, transgenders, and undocumented immigrants hardest hit.
New and improved victim list.
Is this satire? Carbon is inert and a simple chemical building block found everywhere. Who writes this stuff? Who believes this stuff?
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
It’s just the Lake of Fire, nothing to worry about.
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.
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.
Quick! Tax it!
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.
So now the environment will damage the environment. ..
Wouldn’t that be something like a molten diamond?
We were lied to by Al Gore and Paul Erlich?
Dear algore and Mr. Erlich: go pound sand. :-p
BEAT me to it!
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’.
Melting point of CARBON: 3550°C / 6422°F
Melting point of IRON: 1,538°C / 2,800°F
How about a “carbon tax” ?
That ought to cure the problem...
Carbon is not inert....................
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
Fukushima's meltdown might prove that wrong...
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