Sentences with phrase «peak oil seems»

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

Thus far Peak Oil seems to have gone largely unnoticed by the gaming world and that's a shame because there's a really great board game here that strikes a nice balance between depth and ease of learning.

Not exact matches

Instead of the world on a collision course of fighting over the last drop of oil, now it seems that we have turned the world upside down and now we are seeing predictions that oil demand will peak.

It seems like great news to me in an anxious age, when we live in fear of economic collapse or terrorist attack, and are just waiting for the housing bubble to pop or for oil production to peak.

MAUGERI REPLIES: It seems to me that the conventional view about oil has become precisely the one proposed by Campbell and Laherrère: that the world is heading toward peak production.

many of the peak oil theorists (with whom i agree as to the imminent reality of hubbert's peak) seem to be looking forward to the skyrocketing price of oil, as depletion reality sets in and we start down the long slope of hubbert's peak.

There seems to be two discussions regards AGW and its related problem, peak oil.

If carbon taxes / caps and peak oil are inevitable, as it now seems, then railroad expansion is written in stone as well.

I don't think it's about global warming or peak oil per se, it seems there was some kind of fireball nuke attack or comet strike that sent the Earth into its tragedy in the book, but the story is absolutely rivetting.

it seems to me a mighty strange coincidence that PEAK OIL seems to be occurring (and increasingly acknowledged by even our oil company executives) just as anthropogenic climate change hysteria has reached a zenith.

That is, all these «technological fixes» that people propose are very likely to be too little and too late, due to the enormous inertia in the system, if peak oil comes within 5 - 10 years as seems probable.

WRT peak oil, it seems we are finding more and more hydrocarbons.

Siri: That seems like a very high estimate of remaining fossil fuels; I thought we are facing «peak oil».

The consensus seems to be pretty strong that we have reached global peak oil now or will very soon.

Funny how peak oil and climatology seem to march in lockstep... soothsayers in both cults predicting dreadful events that stubbornly refuse to occur......

The New York Times (not noted as an arch-conservative newspaper I believe) seems to think that the predictions of Peak Oil have been somewhat premature....

He thinks the Saudis can live comfortably with oil as low as $ 40 a barrel, and he does not seem persuaded by the chorus of despair arguing that the world has hit «peak oil» and will soon start to run out of it.

Imagine living in a time when global political instability seems the norm, peak oil is widely understood and accepted as an immediate risk, transportation alternatives are getting serious interest by investors, and governments the world over are strategizing over how to control their respective energy futures.

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With oil prices declining in the past couple of months, and the notion that demand could decline due to global recession, it seems like peak oil has left the public radar screen (if it ever really was there).

A similar debate seems to be hotting up within the Transition Movement, with some people suggesting that to survive peak oil, rediscovering the sacred is not just a collective imperative — but a personal one too.

What with national newspapers talking about survivalism and community resillience, and radio soaps joining the Transition Towns initiative, it really seems like the mainstream media in the UK are embracing the idea that peak oil, fossil fuels and climate change are very real, and very immediate, threats to our way of life.

With last year's high gas prices fading in our memories, and with the Copenhagen climate talks grabbing the headlines, the peak oil meme seemed, until recently, to have been taking a bit of a breather.

Though the factors that have created the ongoing unrest across the Middle East and North Africa are numerous, both peak oil and high food prices seem to have played a role.

The final possibility and one that some skeptics seem to blindly accept is that both AGW and Peak Oil are totally contrived and fictitious outcomes.

However: «The picture is complicated, but it seems unlikely that peak oil will save us from global warming.

This doesn't seem very likely, but it would be impossible if both global warming and peak oil aren't dealt with.

Wishful Thinking Where Monbiot's writings on the matter do ring true, however, is that there are some in the environmentalist community who seemed to have almost been wishing for peak oil to happen.

Monbiot seems to imply that environmentalists, as a body, believed in the immediacy of peak oil (this becomes a black and white certainty in the comments, inevitably).