Sentences with phrase «peak oil issue»

Then The Oil Drum extracts salient points from the papers inside the special Peak Oil issue of Australian Planner.

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IMHO, the biggest issue our kids will be facing is not obesity, it will be climate change, peak oil and economic instability.

It is vital in sustainability education to give space for learners to develop their own visions for a sustainable future whilst reminding participants about the issues underpinning the need for change — climate change, peak oil, global inequity and the financial cost of fossil fuels.

Pickens has been (but not any more due to strides in technology have altered the energy landscape) outspoken on the issue of peak oil, and advocates alternative and renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.

This is too complex an issue to go into in detail here, but there's plenty of discussion on the web — just Google «peak oil» and stand back — 4 million hits.

One issue I have not had the time to do full justice to being Peak Oil.

The economic argument is not a climate science issue, it is a resulting issue, a policy issue, combined with a slew of other issues such as peak oil and industry gone wild that long term has negative return on investment written all over it, due to short term thinking inconsiderate of the ramifications of egregious exploitation of the earths resources for the benefit of a few at the cost of many.

Even if you don't understand peak oil production issues — or give damn — the discussions are wide - ranging, often quite technical, and extensive.

As we (globally) are confronted with AGW, we are facing energy security issues, including world - wide peak oil production with increasing demand, which sets the value of a drum of oil.

I'm afraid that global warming and the issue of peak oil is about to burst their bubble.

Peak Oil seems to be an issue that really concentrates the mind.

I know it's a cynical, even depressing, viewpoint, but on the two really huge issues facing us today, global warming and peak oil, that really is how we need to approach the mainstream public as a whole.

* My major point (in analogy to peak oil / global warming) is that the issues argue against each other.

Because, in order to really make a dent in climate change and issues with peak oil, it's going to take both conservation and nifty new technologies like acres of algae to save our hides.

Theoildrum.com is focusing on peak oil — not on the critical issues of how IPCC's has formulated / supported «catastrophic anthropogenic global warming».

Another great resource for understanding the issues is Energy Bulletin's Peak Oil Primer.

Some of these are addressed in the present issue: the geopolitics of peak oil (John Bellamy Foster), the production of biofuels as a liquid fuel alternative and its consequences (Fred Magdoff), the economics of climate change (Minqi Li), the science of climate change (John W. Farley), the ocean crisis (Brett Clark and Rebecca Clausen), the problem of large dams (Rohan D'Souza), and the world water crisis (Maude Barlow).

Like oil, the issue is not any risk of running out, but volatile and rising prices as the peak level of quality supply is reached.

When we look at the issues relating to peak oil, energy security, terrorism, and the economy, you have the support of many more people, perhaps 3/4 of the electorate.

Or to put it another way, global warming will be a big issue 50 years from now, but peak oil is already an issue, and we saw the first economic effects in the summer of 2008.

I know many on this site beleive peak oil is a bigger threat than global warming, but I can't help but think the 20 - 100 year time lag between CO2 release and maximum effect is a far less addressable than issues of increasing fossil fuel prices.

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Transition Milwaukee (TM) is part of an international movement formed, in part, in response to the peak oil crisis and more generally around issues of climate change, economic security and permaculture principles.Peak oil is a non-controversial acknowledgement from government, academic and industry experts that fossil fuels, a finite resource, reach a peak moment of production and necessarily...

The issue with peak oil (setting aside AGW for a moment) is not whether prices are higher.

Oh and we have more than a century of natural gas left, quite a bit of coal and we have not reached our total peak oil reserves as of yet either... Sceintific American has a recent issue discussing all of that though.

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The author is not committed to a particular version of peak oil theory, but deems the issue important enough to explore how various parts of the world should be expected to react.

The Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan out of rural Ireland is the world's first local action plan for peak oil, dealing with broad issues relating to peak, including health, education, tourism and youth issues.

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The issues are peak oil and population growth, which together demand an alternative approach.

The issues that stem from Peak Oil have to do with the crunch that will come when our demand exceeds remaining supply.]

The CFOs surveyed were pretty much evenly split on the issue of peak oil: 48 % said that we are either past a global peak in oil production or will reach that point within several years; 52 % believed that production rates can continue to increase.

Link in the overlaying issues of Peak Oil, Peak Natural Gas, collapsing fisheries, severe hurricanes, the possibility of tying carbon trades to the satellite - verified effects, a rapidly approaching tipping point in media awareness of the climate issue, and rapid growth in solar and wind power product sales.