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[TKoltai]

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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Richard Chirgwin
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> By-the-by ...
> 
> Exxon's CEO says the globe is warming, but don't worry, we can adapt 
> around it. 
> http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2012/06/28/exxon-f
ossil-fuel-adapt-climate/

Other reason's for his capitulation may be...:



http://pesn.com/2005/01/25/6900062_Exxon_Tripped_Indonesian_Tsunami/

Quote/.
Could Exxon-Mobil Works Have Tripped Indonesian Tsunami?
Exxon at Aceh
More than 1600 Indonesian troops have
guarded the Exxon-Mobil facilities in
Aceh at one time in recent years.  The
Indonesian government gleans more than
$100 million per year from the works.

One cubic mile of natural gas extracted every four years at epicenter
Aceh facility presents a probable man-made trigger in 9.0 earthquake
with accompanying tsunami that killed more than 225,000 people.  Think
of a gigantic boulder sitting precariously, nudged over the edge with a
small lever.

[See: Discussion with Seismologist (follows)]

by Paul Noel, JAH, Sterling D. Allan and Mary-Sue Halliburton

ACEH, INDONESIA -- Exxon-Mobil has a
60-billion-standard-cubic-foot-per-day facility near Aceh. In the span
of four years the company extracts more than one cubic mile of natural
gas from the formations beneath what has turned out to be the epicenter
of the Aceh earthquake. The gas field there has been producing for much
longer than four years, and is one of the largest such facilities in the
world.

/Quote


> Apparently the "there is no climate change" position is becoming 
> untenable even for the oil industry.
> 
> RC

There appears to be untenable and then there's penance.
What would you be prepared to say if 225,000 persons families thought
you were responsible ?

The fact that Exxon's gas extraction may not have been responsible, is
neither here nor there...no-one has bothered to research what the
effects on the earths mantle of deep drilled gas/oil wells are.  

All of this climate change, increase in earthquakes, might infact be a
result of oil/gas extraction or it might be just good old CO2...

I actually quite like the idea of blaming the oil companies... But then
how does that theory explain the Oort field ?

It doesn't. Plus there have been several earthquakes in regions away
from oil extraction efforts... So scratch the oil companies. (I've
already scratched the CO2...) that leaves... The Sun and precessional
positioning. So batten down the hatches. We have five more years of
Uranus planetary interference in our affairs and then it will business
back to usual.

Have a nice weekend folks. As the ancient astrologers would say... Venus
is pleasantly aligned to Jupiter, we should all be looking at our
partners with stars in our eyes...

(see that's why it's fun... Ya never know what deeply meaningful 8000
year old scientific trinket I will pull out next. )


TomK