On October 28th, Royal Dutch/Shell, which has had a rough time this year due to a scandal involving exaggerated oil reserves, posted a whopping 120% rise in third-quarter profits, to $5.4 billion.
Though it might sound like the type of exaggerated conversation piece reserved for 4Chan or niche forums, weather control processes are very real.
But Shell is in more of a crisis than the others because of a problem of its own doing: For years it exaggerated the size of its reserves.
An I.M.F.-ordered investigation by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that Ukraine's central bank arranged 21 transactions during a one-year period ending in January 1998 that exaggerated the size of its foreign reserves.
In order to assess thyroid reserve at the end of therapy, the TRH stimulation test was performed and revealed an exaggerated TSH response indicating impaired thyroid reserve [ 21, 22].
Analysts like Jeremy Leggett have said, citing exaggerated oil industry estimates, that if reserve and production reality are indeed significantly lower than industry forecasts, we could be at risk of an oil shock as early as within the next five years.
64 The primary causes of dyspnea and exercise limitation are reduced breathing reserve, dynamic hyperinflation, and an exaggerated ventilatory response to exercise because of limitation in oxygen transfer due to loss of alveolar capillary surface area.
There is talk, probably exaggerated, of São Tomé's having two hundred years' worth of oil reserves at production levels of five hundred thousand barrels a day... São Tomé is in a very rough neighborhood.
Correa declared: "The problem is the exact opposite: The banks have ample funds and reserves, they are breaking historic records with their profits, exaggerated profits based on high interest rates, these will be regulated and controlled".
Reduced respiratory and hemodynamic reserve may diminish tolerance to apnea or result in an exaggerated hemodynamic response to induction medications, laryngoscopy and intubation as observed by Elmer and colleagues and others.
