FT.com / Companies / Oil & Gas - BP discovers ‘giant’ US oilfield.
BP, the UK energy group, has discovered a “giant” oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico that shows a new frontier opening up for US oil production.
That's more global warming then.
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Don’t worry, the Stefan-Boltzmann law is your friend.
If you really want to worry about these things you should be more concerned about the likely collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy in about 3 billion years (round about the time Gordon Brown might have paid down the national debt or found the green shoots of recovery).
If we are lucky we might be bounced out of our solar orbit and end up somewhere in deep space at the ambient temperatures of 30K, which might be survivable with suitable technology.
On the other hand we might be fried by hot gases with the atmosphere burning off and the seas evaporating almost instantly.
If it is any consolation, Liechtenstein and Panamanian secrecy will not afford any protection to tax evaders in either of these circumstances.