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Just like the axles in your car, oil keeps the earth's bearings lubricated so it rotates more easily and with less friction. As we extrude oil from the earth, there is less oil available to reduce the friction and so heat builds up and the earths slows a little each year. This can be observed by the need to add a leap-second to our clocks every few years. If the trend continues, the earth's core will get hot enough that volcanos will burst forth everywhere, but by then the earth should be spinning so slowly that temperature extremes will range from above boiling on the sun-facing side to near 0 Kelvin on the night side of earth. The net is that all advanced forms of life will long be dead from lack of water and food, so we won't be around to witness all those volcanos, so we won't care.
Better to leave the oil in the earth where it does the most good and the least harm.
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How is crude oil brought to the surface of the earth?
Oil often seeps to the surface, but when it is deep in the earth it is pumped out through an oil well.
What are the Effect of deposition on earth features?
The effect of deposition is erosion
The greenhouse effect is the natural warming in earth's what?
In the Earth's Geosphere.
How do we get oil from the earth?
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What is the greatest significant contributor to the greenhouse effect?
There is a natural greenhouse effect, supported by the earth's carbon and water cycles, that has kept the earth warm enough for life for millions of years. Water vapour is the most significant greenhouse gas for this effect. However, there is now an enhanced, or accelerated, greenhouse effect which is causing global warming. The most significant contributor to this enhanced greenhouse effect is carbon dioxide, caused by the human activities of deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal and natural gas).
How can adelie penguins becoming endangered effect earth?
By making a law not to spill oil.
How does using oil effect the environment?
It affects the enviroment by the smoke the oil cant resist the earth ( the earth is damaging fyi )Oil can affect Birds by sticking their feathers together, making them unable to fly
How does burning fossil fuels affect the lithosphere?
The lithosphere is the rocky crust of the earth, Earth's surface. Burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) has no real effect on the lithosphere, but has a very big effect on the atmosphere.
Will oil effect an electrical connector?
no oil dos not effect an electrical connector
Is oil necessary to the earth's rotation?
No, oil has nothing to do with the earth's rotation.
How is oil recovered from the earth?
Oil is recovered by drilling down into the earth.
What is the effect of dilution on viscosity of oil?
dilution will reduce the viscosity The effect of dilution on viscosity of oil is that it will decrease.
What effect did it have on the Earth?
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What effect does an asteroid have on the earth?
Virtually no effect, unless it strikes the Earth, in which the effects could be catastrophic.
What is the green house effect's effect on the Earth's average temperature?
The Earth's mean temperature will rise.
What effect dosunspots have on the earth?
Good question and the answer is no effect
What is the effect of type of earth material on the ramp angle at which the earth material willslide?
What is the effect of type of earth material on the ramp angle at which the earth material willslide?
