The incredible amount of oil burned unto today. (Dangerous experiments part two)

by F.G.Helmke
 

Can you kill the Earth "by burning an oil lamp?" Let’s calculate:

Total oil produced up to date: 100 billion tons

One ton is one billion milligrams

That’s one hundred billion billions of milligrams of oil produced

(100 000 000 000 000 000 000 mg)

The atmosphere of the Earth: 4 billion cubic kilometers (at sea level conditions)

One cubic kilometer is one billion cubic meters

So the atmosphere contains four billion billions of cubic meters of air

(4 000 000 000 000 000 000 m³)

100 billion billions of milligrams divided by 4 billion billions of cubic meters 
That’s  25 milligrams of oil burned per cubic meter of air in our atmosphere.

100 000 000 000 000 000 000 mg

:   4 000 000 000 000 000 000 m³

= 25 mg/m³

  Now let’s do the following experiment: Get a one cubic meter cardboard box. Put you head inside and seal it. Take a syringe with 25 mg or about 33 ml of crude oil, put it into an oil lamp and light it. If you survive, keep on driving your car! If not, be sure you go to heaven! When you arrive there you’d better have a good apology why you allowed this to happen your planet!

U.N. report warns environment is at tipping point

(editor: The tipping point is when something loses its balance, usually followed by an uncontrolled fall)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)—The earth’s environmental systems “are being pushed towards their biophysical limits,” beyond which loom sudden, irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes, the United Nations Environment Program warned Wednesday.

Brazil’s Secretary of Research and Development Programs and Politics, Ministry of Science and Technology, Carlos Nobre, speaks during the launch of U.N. Environment Program Global Environment Outlook 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday.

In a 525-page report on the health of the planet, the agency paints a grim picture: The melting of the polar ice caps, desertification in Africa, deforestation of tropical jungles, spiraling use of chemicals and the emptying out of the world’s seas are just some of myriad environmental catastrophes posing a threat to life as we know it.

“As human pressures on the earth … accelerate, several critical global, regional and local thresholds are close or have been exceeded,” the report says. “Once these have been passed, abrupt and possibly irreversible changes to the life-support functions of the planet are likely to occur, with significant adverse implications for human well-being.”

Such adverse implications include rising sea levels, increased frequency and severity of floods and droughts, and the collapse of fisheries, said the report, which compiles the work of the past three years by a team of 300 researchers.

The bad news doesn’t end there. The report says about 20 percent of vertebrate species are under threat of extinction, coral reefs have declined by 38 percent since 1980, greenhouse gas emissions could double over the next 50 years, and 90 percent of water and fish samples from aquatic environments are contaminated by pesticides.

“This is an indictment,” UNEP executive director Achim Steiner said at a news conference in Rio De Janeiro, which is to host later this month a U.N. conference on development that protects the environment. “We live in an age of irresponsibility that is also testified and documented in this report.”

“Once the tipping point occurs, you don’t wake up the next morning and say, ‘This is terrible, can we change it?’ That is the whole essence of these thresholds. We are condemning people to not having the choice anymore.”

Pressure cooker explodes. Potentially lethal experiment demonstrates effects of global warming

F.G.Helmke

The sky is the limit. And we have reached it.The distance from sea level up to the peak of Mount Everest is probably as much as from your home to where you work. If it were horizontal you could walk there in less than two hours. If it weren’t so rocky you could slide down there in forty minutes. That's not very high at all! But up there you have already 70% less oxygen. So as you see this World doesn't have an unlimited amount of air! To the contrary, the effective* thickness of the atmosphere is only 8.2km! (*measured at sea level conditions). That's from where you are right now to somewhere very near to where you are right now. 

So our atmosphere is actually as thin as a soap bubble in comparison to the size of the Earth! Just because you can't see its limit doesn't mean it doesn't exist and that you can pump an ever increasing amount of carbon dioxide into it. Scientists estimate that if nothing gets done temperatures will rise another 6 degrees Celsius long before the end of this century, and our world will simply be uninhabitable. And we all know as long as there is oil probably nothing will get done.                    

There is a very simple experiment you can do: put a pot of milk on your stove and start heating it up. Don’t turn off the stove. Just wait for what will happen. The result of this experiment will show you that you can’t heat up things indefinitely without serious consequences. 
Another good experiment is filling up a pressure cooker with lentils almost up to the brim and put it on the fire. This experiment will teach you that there is only one safe moment to turn off the fire, and that’s the very moment when you realize that you made a mistake. Then you have to leave the room, because he next moment it might explode just as mine did. Unfortunately this is exactly what we are doing to our planet. It’s now or forget it, buddy!

“They ate and drank and got married (or merry, and didn’t worry) until the day the flood came”, Jesus said about the people at the time of Noah. Mankind hasn’t changed since. But when God speaks about the end of the world he speaks about the end of this kind of world where greed and ignorance rule. Not the one he created. Jesus said the day it burns he will come back with a big fire extinguisher and rescue us! I suppose he would prefer to leave it up to us to take care of this beautiful creation, and not to intervene, but there seems to be not much of an alternative.

World temps maintain the heat of global warming

DURBAN, South Africa (AP)—World temperatures keep rising, and are heading for a threshold that could lead to irreversible changes of the Earth, the U.N. weather office said Tuesday. 2011 is tied for the 10th hottest year since records began.

More Extreme Weather Expected as Planet Warms

Reuters
DURBAN (Reuters)—The world is getting hotter, with 2011 one of the warmest years on record, and increasing temperatures are expected to amplify floods, droughts and other extreme weather patterns around the planet, said a U.N. report released on Tuesday.
The World Meteorological Organisation, part of the United Nations, said the warmest 13 years of average global temperatures have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997.
That has contributed to extreme weather conditions that increase the intensity of droughts and heavy precipitation across the world, it said.
“Our science is solid and it proves unequivocally that the world is warming and that this warming is due to human activities,” WMO Deputy Secretary-General Jerry Lengoasa told reporters in Durban.
This year, the global climate was influenced heavily by the strong La Nina—a phenomenon usually linked to extreme weather in Asia-Pacific, South America and Africa, but which developed unexpectedly in the tropical Pacific in the second half of 2010.
One of the strongest such events in 60 years, it was closely associated with the drought in east Africa, islands in the central equatorial Pacific and the United States, as well as severe flooding in other parts of the world.
The report was released to coincide with the start of U.N. climate talks this week in the South African coastal city of Durban aimed at reaching cuts in gas emissions to head off what scientists see as a global ecological disaster caused by climate change.
Prospects for a meaningful agreement appear bleak with major emitters the United States and China unwilling to take on binding cuts until the other does first, major players Japan, Canada and Russia unwilling to extend commitments that expire next year and the European Union looking at 2015 as a deadline for reaching a new, global deal.
The report said the build-up of greenhouse gasses has depleted sea ice caps and put the world at a tipping point of irreversible changes in ecosystems caused by global warming.
“Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached new highs,” WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said separately in a statement.
“They are very rapidly approaching levels consistent with a 2-2.4 degree Centigrade rise in average global temperatures which scientists believe could trigger far reaching and irreversible changes in our Earth, biosphere and oceans.”
U.N. scientists said in a separate report this month an increase in heat waves is almost certain, while heavier rainfall, more floods, stronger cyclones, landslides and more intense droughts are likely across the globe this century as the Earth’s climate warms.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said global average temperatures could rise by 3-6 degrees Celsius by the end of the century if governments failed to contain emissions, bringing unprecedented destruction as glaciers melt and sea levels rise and small island states are erased from existence.

editor: It's like heating up milk. At a certain point unwillingness to turn off the heat will trigger the milk to boil over. Didn't we all see this happen once in our lives? I saw a pressure cooker explode once because the pot was too full and the security valve blocked. Reaching the threshold means: beyond this point there's no way back. We are now approaching this point. Not in the next generation, but within the next few years.

Our grandchildren won't have a world to live in

World has five years to avoid severe warming: IEA

By Marlowe Hood, AFP, Nov. 9, 2011
The world has just five years to avoid being trapped in a scenario of perilous climate change and extreme weather events, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned on Wednesday.

On current trends, “rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change,” the IEA concluded in its annual World Energy Outlook report.

“The door to 2.0 C is closing,” it said, referring to the 2.0 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) cap on global warming widely accepted by scientists and governments as the ceiling for averting unmanageable climate damage.

Without further action, by 2017 the total CO2 emissions compatible with the 2.0 C goal will be “locked in” by power plants, factories and other carbon-emitting sources either built or planned, the IEA said.

To meet energy needs while still averting climate catastrophe, governments must engineer a shift away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels, the agency said bluntly.

Business-as-usual emissions would put the world “on an even more dangerous track toward an increase of 6.0 C (10.8 F),” the report says.

Scientists who have modelled the impacts on biodiversity, agriculture and human settlement say a 6 C world would be close to unlivable due to violent extremes of drought, flooding, heatwaves and storms.

The planet’s average temperature has risen by about 1.0 C (1.8 F) over the last century, with forecasts for future warming ranging from an additional 1.0 C to 5.0 C (9.0 F) by 2100.

editor's comment: So this prestigious world-wide recognized agency calmly says we are creating an "un-live-able" world, using words like: "business-as-usual" and "widely accepted" by "scientists and governments".  

This is a rare description of how man himself is creating apocalyptic monsters that destroy our world, and he doesn't seem to need God to dig his own grave.