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“Faster emissions growth does give you a faster temperature increase, but with fixed net emissions, doesn't much affect the climate you wind up with at the end. Even the effect on rate of temperature increase is somewhat muted by the response time of the ocean.”

—Ray Pierrehumbert

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Pipeline Rupture in Missouri River Basin Leaks Over 3,000 Barrels of Natural Gasoline

Another pipeline has ruptured near the flooded Missouri River basin. As much as 3,300 barrels of natural gasoline leaked on Saturday near Onawa, Iowa. The spill comes just a month after an Exxon Mobil pipeline leaked 1,000 barrels of crude oil into the flooded Yellowstone River in Montana, which feeds the Missouri River.

“Our government is conducting a war against drugs, is it? Let them go after petroleum. Talk about a destructive high! You put some of this stuff in your car and you can go a hundred miles an hour, run over the neighbor's dog, and tear the atmosphere to smithereens. Hey, as long as we are stuck with being homo sapiens, why mess around? Let's wreck the whole joint. Anybody got an atomic bomb? Who doesn't have an atomic bomb nowadays?”

—Kurt Vonnegut

Destroying the climate is not radical. It is evil. - oilspill nokxl bigoil petroleum blacktide oil

“Considering the many productive uses of petroleum, burning it for fuel is like burning a Picasso for heat.”

—Big Oil Executive
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