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What about all the burning oil fields (Original Post) doc03 Sep 2019 OP
It's a hoax, haven't you heard? BigmanPigman Sep 2019 #1
Fake news. nt doc03 Sep 2019 #3
Not much FBaggins Sep 2019 #2
Yes but if it burned in a car the emissions would doc03 Sep 2019 #5
Well sure... you can see the black smoke FBaggins Sep 2019 #7
I guess so. nt doc03 Sep 2019 #8
That is like peeing in the ocean causes the sea level to rise Lochloosa Sep 2019 #4
climate changes every day... pangaia Sep 2019 #6
That's what Repubicans say. nt doc03 Sep 2019 #9
Yes, and it is being caused by humans not Jesus. walkingman Sep 2019 #10

FBaggins

(26,743 posts)
2. Not much
Sun Sep 15, 2019, 07:21 PM
Sep 2019

All that oil was set to be burned anyway... and 19-ish drones couldn’t set off anywhere close to the number of wells as Kuwait when Iraq burned them on purpose

doc03

(35,340 posts)
5. Yes but if it burned in a car the emissions would
Sun Sep 15, 2019, 07:27 PM
Sep 2019

be cleaned up. All the various particulates and gases are going directly into the air. Should have bad effects locally at least.

FBaggins

(26,743 posts)
7. Well sure... you can see the black smoke
Sun Sep 15, 2019, 07:37 PM
Sep 2019

But it’s still incredibly tiny compared to all the coal gas and oil burned every day.

Environmentally bad... but negligible on a climate basis.

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