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A Massive Lake of Molten Carbon The Size of Mexico is Discovered Under The US
GeologyIn ^ | 30 Apr 2017

Posted on 04/30/2017 8:38:09 PM PDT by shove_it

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To: patton

What if a much of a which of a solar wind... ?


41 posted on 04/30/2017 9:42:03 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: shove_it

OMG, what happens when the molten carbon and the melting frozen methane deposits under the ocean meet?????


42 posted on 04/30/2017 9:42:32 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: kaehurowing

Gaia lets off one hell of a fart?


43 posted on 04/30/2017 9:43:35 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: shove_it

This is also probably why oil is NOT made of “dead dinosaurs” and why mankind will never run out of oil.

Its also why trying to control mankind’s CO2 output is so stupid - like banning people from farting in a hurricane.


44 posted on 04/30/2017 9:44:15 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: shove_it

Yeah, it’s 200 miles underground. Not even a giant asteroid could release it. More nutty hysteria from the whacky left.


45 posted on 04/30/2017 9:44:42 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Vince Ferrer
I would guess that molten carbon , if released to the surface and cooled, would just solidify to graphite. but then again I am not a carbophobe.

That's one heck of a Strategic #2 Pencil Reserve.

46 posted on 04/30/2017 9:46:09 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If this stuff welled up under the sea we might die of carbon monoxide poisoning.

That would be a major headache.

47 posted on 04/30/2017 9:46:14 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: shove_it

We will pass the tipping point in one billion years. We must act now!


48 posted on 04/30/2017 9:47:09 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Perhaps a rock hit it.

I keep trying to explain the difference between chaos and entropy (countable v. uncountable), and it is not working.

Perhaps I should stop.


49 posted on 04/30/2017 9:48:25 PM PDT by patton
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To: shove_it

geologists felt left out of the global-climate-warming-change funding and headlines bonanza, and found a way to cash in.


50 posted on 04/30/2017 9:48:30 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: PGR88

Oh, it might all be dead dinosaurs (and other biomass), but what we think is earth’s dead dinosaur deposits might be only a small percentage of the whole.

The problem with a putative carbon and hydrogen reaction is, where did the hydrogen come from? If from water, where does the oxygen go? No chance it gets driven off as free oxygen. It’d immediately react.


51 posted on 04/30/2017 9:49:03 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: shove_it

Is the Earth a big nuclear reactor? Is that the reason there is molten rock at the center even after billions of years?


52 posted on 04/30/2017 9:50:07 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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To: arrogantsob

Some radioactive decay still is believed to go on there, e.g. thorium. That keeps the core, that is mostly iron, liquid. Weird. We’re sitting on a dirt-and-water crust on a big molten radioactive iron ball. And it doesn’t just sizzle off.


53 posted on 04/30/2017 9:53:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: All

700,000:1 odds?!? Way better odds than winning the Lotto!


54 posted on 04/30/2017 9:54:47 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Fungi

What is “hogwash” the study, the conclusions, is it political science? The Warmers really don’t want to talk about volcanoes since just the ones erupting put so much crap in the air that it causes global COOLING.

I find it interesting that Yellowstone is close to the center of the pool.


55 posted on 04/30/2017 9:54:56 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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To: PGR88

Can somebody tell me, what the atmoshpreric o2 levels have been for the last 200 years?


56 posted on 04/30/2017 9:56:45 PM PDT by patton
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To: existentially_kuffer

I believe that humans contribute about 5% of the “Greenhouse Gases” so the rest is from natural sources.


57 posted on 04/30/2017 9:57:35 PM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Now you are speculating. You don’t know that we have an iron core - it might be uranium.


58 posted on 04/30/2017 10:01:09 PM PDT by patton
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To: shove_it

liquid diamond


59 posted on 04/30/2017 10:01:40 PM PDT by piasa
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To: HiTech RedNeck
From what I read, it seems to be conflating carbonates with carbon, with CO^2.

"...Earth's interior is known for by its high temperatures where solid carbonates melt, creating distinctive seismic patterns."

The whole thing is a bit incoherent.

60 posted on 04/30/2017 10:02:09 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!�)
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