Wheres suricat???

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Originally posted by Geoman:
Hi True sceptic
Tried to post a reply to your question but my answer has been diverted for some reason to the scrutiny committee!?

Thanks. I should've warned you that they don't like certain types of URLs. "Proper" ones are OK but it is hard to guess what they consider legit. I was banned a while ago for posting several "dodgy" URLs in one day and I had to promise to be good to get back in.

Perhaps you could just tell us the words that Google would require to find the URL?

Second attempt.

We should be getting back to the topic of this thread started by Engineer, The Ice ages and in particular what is the most threatening for the human race, global warming or global cooling? I apologise to Engineer in taking his thread off on another issue.

I have developed a hypothesis when interpreting the Ice Core data when incorporating the evidence of increased levels of atmospheric dust. I have yet to see this hypothesis published; perhaps I have not searched hard enough.
My interpretation is that the dust is evidence of increased and prolonged terrestrial volcanic activity or marine activity reaching above the sea surface. It is not so much that the atmospheric CO2 warmed the planet out of an Ice Age, but the increased terrestrial volcanic activity caused the Ice Age by cooling with a prolonged “nuclear winter” due to the increased levels of dust and SO2 in the atmosphere. The cooling of the atmosphere and seas enabled the CO2 levels to decline by the ability of the seas to increase absorption. Once terrestrial volcanic activity declined the dust and SO2 levels decreased and the planet warmed to the mean global temperature of about 15 deg C. The Ice Core data has shown this combined cycle of events to have occurred four times over the last 400,000 years.
The planet’s mean temperature warmed around 8,000 years to the levels experienced in previous inter-glacials with minor fluctuations around the mean temperature due to particular influencing events such as Milankovitch cycles, and the Sun cycles.
The bad news is that over the last 2,000 years the SO2 level in the ice cores has risen three fold. This may be due to an increase in world-wide volcanic activity as suggested by researchers.

Hi True Sceptic, from what I have managed to discover the cracking process produces a number of products, each distilled out of the cracking process at different temperatures due to their various boiling points. Petrol at about 70 deg C, Diesel oils around 170 deg C and Naptha for the chemical industry around 20 deg C.
The link you want in regard to peak production is on a US government site. Google the following:- “USGS Based Estimates of Ultimate Recovery” and you find a PowerPoint presentation of the slides given at a conference in 2005.