El Opinador Compulsivo

Scott Grannis recordando la sabiduría de Jude Wanniski:

Since oil was first discovered a little over 100 years ago, mankind has pumped about 38 cubic miles of the stuff out of the earth. Current global crude production is about 80 million barrels per day, which works out to 1.2 trillion gallons per year, or roughly 1.1 cubic miles per year.
Sounds like a lot of oil, doesn’t it? But consider how puny Lake Tahoe is compared to the planet earth.
Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake on the North American continent, 22 miles long and 12 miles wide, with an average depth of 989 feet. It contains an estimated 39.75 trillion gallons of water, which is roughly 36 cubic miles.
All the oil ever produced by mankind would approximately fill Lake Tahoe. At current production rates, it would take about 33 years to fill it again.
Does it really make sense to think that burning oil equivalent to roughly 3% of Lake Tahoe per year could upset the global climate? Or that reducing the amount of oil we burn by some fraction would set things right again?
Something to keep in mind when discussing global warming.