Sentences with phrase «how peak oil»

Mike already explored how Colonel Gaddafi benefits from The West's oil addiction, Matt explained how peak oil contributed to

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

Not exact matches

My question is this... How does this affect peak oil (or, as I like to call it, the end of the Industrial Age)?

Chris Martenson, economic researcher, trend forecaster, The Crash Course author, and founder of Peak Prosperity, discusses the eight forms of capital you need to become resilient to crisis, how the financial system scams hapless investors, and why gold will get much more valuable once the next oil crisis hits.

He will examine whether the current hype around fracking is justified, as well as how best to deal with the problem of peak oil and resource shortages.

Solutions to environmental problems ranging from global warming to peak oil — and how the environment is playing a role in this year's elections

The story of how this brilliant but irascible Shell geologist accurately forecast in 1956 that US oil production would peak and go into terminal decline by 1970 is by now well worn.

How sunk are we regarding peak oil / hydrocarbons?

As you come to the closing stages of the game the titular Peak Oil phase is triggered once all of the black barrels have been taken from the bag, representing how the world has finally run out of liqid dinosaur remains.

We really should also be looking at peak oil more seriously and how we currently use around 20 million barrels of oil each day in America.

This debate is about your pocketbook, it's about your job, it's about whether you can still afford health care, whether we're going to do something about climate change or not, what kind of world your kids are going to be living in in ten or fifteen years, how are we going to respond to peak oil, where is the next transistor economy going to come from?

Kunz laid out a pretty convincing case for high speed rail as the solution for a number of problems facing American transportation, including outdated infrastructure, peak oil (or «energy independence,» depending how you look at it), out of control carbon emissions, and more.

The two discuss how a small group of citizens started out talking about energy security over pizza and beer, and ended up persuading the city to set up the peak oil task force, the first of its kind for any city anywhere in the world.

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.

I do nt know if we have hit peak oil yet, but it would be close, given how yields are behaving in the larger fields and the extent of water pumping required.

How will the 6.5 billion people on this planet cope with Peak Oil and a climate catastrophe at the same time?

I have yet to see how society will replace our present massive use of fossil carbon in time to minimize the impact of the decline in available low cost liquid fuels after Peak Oil.

Doesn't matter how big global estimated potential oil reserves are in total: when an oil company has diminishing access to state - controlled fossil fuels it may be experiencing its own peak - as a corporation.

J. Fredrichs reviews the Global energy crunch: How different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario Energy Policy, 2010-04-27.

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

We will have to continue the arguments about how to meet our need for power in the face of peak oil and global warming.

Consider how we might bridge peak oil and climate change activism.

For example, given how often we are told that peak oil has arrived (sooner or later those that say that will have to be right), is it genuinely feasible that we can triple oil extracts?

The author also shows little understanding of the concept of peak oil by pointing out how much oil is left.

Sam Foucher quantitatively documents how conventional crude oil production is approaching the 2 sigma (95 %) probability of having peaked.

See Ben Pile of the GWPF, and how he got made mincemeat by the peak oil realists.

How hot is it going to get if global coal consumption peaks at 7 billion tons per year, oil consumption peaks at 100 million barrels per day and natural gas consumption peaks at 150 trillion cubic feet per year?

But in the real world where we face multiple uncertain catastrophes: nuclear war, asteroid strikes, pandemics, earthquakes, peak oil, economic collapse, etc., as well as climate change, how do we respond?

Jeff Rubin: Peak Oil Will Make Our World A Whole Lot Smaller The Ultimate Race: Peak Oil vs. Global Warming How Will Supply and Demand Affect Peak Oil?

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.»

Benjamin J. Turon writes an op - ed in the Schenectady Daily Gazette and makes a very good point about how the Kunstlers and Peak Oil Survivalists

We're at about 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year — and notwithstanding the global economic slowdown, probably poised to rise 2 % per year (the exact future growth rate is quite hard to project because it depends so much on what China does and how quickly peak oil kicks in).

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.

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.

I bring this up because Peak Oil is back in the news; and it will be fascinating to see how it folds into the politic of climate action.

The more we spec — ialiise and noisily choose sides — IPCC alarmists, Peak Oil doomsayers, Free Market denialists, Enviroterrorists, Wise Use privateers, etc — the more we resemble blind men arguing over how to tame an elephant.

This latest is no exception, as Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition Towns Movement, explores peak oil, the end of the oil age, and how resilience differs from sustainability.

Given the cuts to Government spending that are kicking in everywhere, is it time to ask what role green groups should play in a shrinking state?Transition Movement Gets Political I started pondering this question having read a heart - felt and passionate account by Sarah Nicholl and Marietta Birkholtz over at Transition Culture of how climate change and peak oil activists are fighting swinging cuts to schools, libraries and other essential public services.

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (US / Cuba, 2006, Documentary, 53 min by Community

Two today on peak oil and how the big oil companies are finally publicly (if quietly) coming around to what peak oil researchers have been saying for a while: It's here, or will be shortly.

This article is of interest: Global energy crunch: How different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario

Now Peak Moment TV, which normally concerns itself with subjects like backyard permaculture or community - wide peak oil planning, brings us an interesting interview with market analyst Marc Cuniberti, who discusses how to keep your money safe in troubled tiPeak Moment TV, which normally concerns itself with subjects like backyard permaculture or community - wide peak oil planning, brings us an interesting interview with market analyst Marc Cuniberti, who discusses how to keep your money safe in troubled tipeak oil planning, brings us an interesting interview with market analyst Marc Cuniberti, who discusses how to keep your money safe in troubled times.

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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.

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But having made my point, I probably shouldn't hijack this interesting post about methane hydrates any further — I guess we should try to work out how to extract and burn them to avert the peak oil crisis risk of release: --RRB-

Published in the UK, but available worldwide, this magazine includes accessible, how - to information on all aspects of green living, from alternative energy, to peak oil, to community planning, to specific food growing techniques and more.

There are thousands of initiatives around the world starting their journey to answer this crucial question: «for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly rebuild resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil and economic contraction) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?»