Sentences with phrase «even peak oil»

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The International Energy Agency, which says that global oil demand could peak around 2020 if governments adopted particularly green policies, predicts that even if it happened, oil still would account for 23 % of total global energy in 2040, down from 32 % in 2016.

Even with oil prices still down by half from the peak, improvements in well development productivity have enabled US producers to make money at much lower oil prices.

Only 10 years later, when oil went to $ 147 / barrel the «experts» said oil will stay high or go even higher because we passed peak oil.

So the sharp fall in oil prices has certainly been disruptive, but stabilization from distressed trough levels should be good for economic growth even if the price of oil doesn't rebound back to peak levels of above $ 100 a barrel in 2014.

One fisherman I saw even had a giant oil painting of a fish descending into heaven from the peak of a waterfall.

These things are problematic to focus on, since they are deeply personal, yet on a societal level they make very little difference — meaning that they can alienate someone very quick, yet, even their perfect application (lifelong marriages between men and women only) would not cure our social ills — what about wars, starvation, national debt, environmental decay, cheating banks, resource depletion, peak oil etc. etc?

Korena says: Egg whites and meringues can be temperamental — if there is even a trace of oil, fat, or egg yolk in the bowl or on the beater, it can prevent the egg whites from whipping to a stiff peaks.

But you can also use vanilla powder, and once you whip this thing into a frenzy like you say and it's really a stiff peak, you can even add oil to it, and it won't deflate on you terribly.

* Foreign Reserves have peaked at $ 40b, the highest level in about four years, and up from $ 24 billion just a year ago, even though when we came in, the price of oil had crashed woefully.

Coming up on Radio Ecoshock, I'll have an extended chat with Dr. Kathy McMahon, the clinical psychologist who helps people rethink their lives, even in times of great social crisis (whether it's peak oil, climate disruption, or a fall of the fake economy.)

For instance, if you believe that global oil production has peaked, you might want to invest your money with a manager who loves oil stocks even more than the index does.

Actually, even given my skepticism, I'm all in favor in doing relatively easy stuff (and «easy» could still be large - scale) as some insurance while we continue the debate and development, and to get a jump on peak oil, and for other secondary benefits.

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

But the political reality in the United States remains that more oil will be needed before the country uses less, even as evidence emerges that «peak travel» is nigh (more on that concept soon).

Though he doesn't come out and say it, he even alludes to peak oil.

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.

A peak in conventional oil (which I generally define as primary + secondary production) is likely to be upon us sooner than many optimists would imagine, even with Bakken tight oil.

Even if you trim off the ends of the curve of squalor and overindulgence, you end up with a huge energy gap, which may already be what is helping drive up oil and coal prices (keep in mind most experts on fossil fuels I talk to see no signs of «peak coal» any time soon).

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.

We are getting close to world peak production on resources like oil and natural gas, and we shouldn't be using them to dig up coal and make even more pollution delivering WY coal to Georgia.

Perhaps an even more more significant question than «when will oil peak?»

Worse, even without global warming, a «creamy nougat» of oil would cause «peak air» and our own suffocation!

Even your tar sands will peak some day, Brent, so «peak oil» is one of those terms like «climate change».

The authors note that even if the large EIA reserve estimates are valid, peak CO2 could be kept close to 400 ppm if the most difficult to extract oil and gas is left in the ground via a rising price on carbon emissions that discourages remote exploration and environmental regulations that place some areas off - limits.

The speech also mentions Michael Shermer positively even though Shermer does not consider AGW (or peak oil for that matter) worthy of skepticism http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-09-28/ Scroll to the bottom, a much better read than the one recommended above.

Have you heard of peak oil, peak coal, peak gas, even peak energy?

Between CO2, peak oil, environmental disasters, and the fact that the rest of the world holds most of oil reserves, there is every reason (economic, ecological, and strategic) in the world to start to pursue renewable energy sources, and even Anthony Watts knows this (he drives and sells electric cars, doesn't he?).

Great post, even if an over reaction to Shollenberger, with whom I penned a CE guest post on IEA peak oil two some years ago.

Even before the war, the country's rate of oil production had plummeted by nearly half, from a peak of just under 610,000 barrels per day (bpd) to approximately 385,000 bpd in 2010.

They're admittedly melting the arctic ice with it so they can blame it on gasoline, tax it, make trillions, destroy the economy by driving up prices with the peak oil scam, make even more trillions, take over the world, and kill you all!

It is possible — and from a climate change point of view even desirable — to have a peak in global oil demand in the foreseeable future, but this will require measures that go well beyond what is being implemented today.

Image credit: AgCert Peak oil is a subject that has gained much traction (even inspiring some sexy if pessimistic dancing from Oily Cassandra).

The first order human forcings that are negative (e.g., sulphate emissions) and mask some of the CO2 forcing increase the risks of AGW; if they decrease because of Peak Oil, or economic changes, or are eliminated because of other adverse effects they have, the warming impact of the CO2 we're adding to the atmosphere will be even larger.

As part of that reinvention he urges Transition Movements to convey the sense of urgency around climate change and peak oil to their communities — arguing that within a few short years we will begin facing stark choices about «how we live, where we live, and even who lives.»

The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further.

Until recently the International Energy Agency never really publicly acknowledged peak oil, and still rarely uses the term itself even though over the past year the topic has been acknowledged to be (gasp) very real

While this last point is certainly debatable (even assuming we reach peak oil soon, we haven't seen data / projections showing how fast energy costs are expected to rise), it is clear that we will soon be paying more for the privilege of watching our big, new plasma TVs unless we quickly adapt to this new energy regime.

Indeed, the effects of AGW that are very likely «locked in» now from the GHGs we have already emitted, will almost certainly be worse than even a very badly managed peak oil transition would cause.

Even if by then peak is met that does not mean we will not have enough oil.

As I pointed out here, CAGR for CO2 emissions from coal, oil, natural gas, flaring, and cement production averaged 3.08 % for the period 2000 - 2010, peaking to 6 % in 2003 over 2002 (though there was no hysteria that time) and again in 2010 over 2009 (much unwarranted hysteria about a single year, even by professionals but perhaps overblown by the media as usual who may have been selective about who they quoted!).

Even if you do not accept global warming and do not see the point of reducing the production of greenhouse gases, what is your solution for the peak oil problem?

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Even so, peak oil was a powerful lever.

Please note the UN now estimates that world population will peak at around 9 billion at mid-century; world oil consumption goes up every year and yet proven reserves continue to expand; global coolers have morphed into global warmers; of the 100 species allegedly extinguishing per day — name one that went extinct today — or even during the last 5 years.

Even a worldwide emergency response «10 years before world oil peaking», he wrote, would leave «a liquid fuels shortfall roughly a decade after the time that oil would have peaked.»