new findings on global warming

[gib65]

This is purely hearsay, but maybe others will back it up.

 

I heard through someone who got this from BBS that recent satellite photos show 50% of the CO2 in the atmosphere comes from two specific areas on the globe: Nigeria and Siberia. Both these places have problems with natural gas that leaks out of their oil wells. It's a poisonous gas and so they have to burn it in order to get rid of it, and this adds to the greenhouse gases. Russia says it does this because it doesn't have the technology to handle the gas in any other way. Shell is responding to this by implementing a technology that will liquefy the gas which will help in storing it safely. It is apparently a very easy and cheap technology to implement. If they are able to do this for both Siberia and Nigeria, that will be 50% of GW problem solved.

[jackson33]

right now, i would think California and Florida/Georgia are the number one culprits. the reverse culprits or areas that do nothing to limit CO2, are all the deserts. the US, has millions of square miles in forest which you never hear about, as absorbing CO2...

[1veedo]

That must be big fire! Do have any idea where in google Earth you could find it?

[geoguy]

This 'was' quite common in the energy industry. Gas used to be flared off well sites because there was no market for it or no means of shipping it efficiently (via pipeline) to market. Here in Alberta you could see the flare stacks lighting up the night sky from 20 miles away. This practice is no longer done (at least here).

 

On a trip to the Rockies, Rudyard Kipling passed through the town of Medicine Hat, Alberta. The enormous burning flares were were so magnificent that he described the area as 'having all Hell for a basement'.