Sentences with phrase «peak oil problems»

The solution to both the global warming and peak oil problems is converting to renewable energy ASAP.

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?

Not exact matches

«A doomer is one who believes that problems of ecological overshoot, such as over population, climate change, pollution and especially peak oil, will cause the collapse of industrial civilization, and, a significant human population die - off.

Yet, while president after president emphasised the importance of tackling the problem, US net oil imports kept rising, until they peaked in 2005 at about 12.5 million barrels of oil per day, 65 % of total US demand.

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

And so one [of the] points I wanted to make is that is if we're already starting to run into limits that those are going to be seriously exacerbated by the problems that we're now encountering with the shifts in weather and with the advent of peak oil.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

I've said countless times that peak oil and global warming are imminent and extremely serious problems, and yet people keep assuming that because I'm not predicting the fall of modern civilization in 10 years that I think it's all not that big a deal.

My problem with Peak Oil is that once it is upon us it will trigger a desperate search for alternatives that will include making gasoline from coal, tar sands and oil shales (among otherOil is that once it is upon us it will trigger a desperate search for alternatives that will include making gasoline from coal, tar sands and oil shales (among otheroil shales (among others).

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.

Therefore, we find ourselves left with only one inescapable conclusion: peak oil and catastrophic climate change are not the problem.

If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicyle friendly.»

Unfortunately, if the majority can agree that AGW and peak oil are acute problems which need to be addressed, then conservation and «life style» sacrifice are going to have to be the largest contributors to the solution space.

Yes there's a sort of «perfect storm» of peak oil, economic problems, and climate problems.

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

If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly.»

This time I believe there is a much greater probability of long term changes, as this time the tightness was not due to politically generated shortages by OPEC, but by actual supply problems and there has been the growing realization that Peak Oil, however defined, is a geological inevitability.

You couldn't be more right, Andrew, with the following statement: «If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly.»»

«climate change and peak oil are probably the two most long term, intractable energy and environmental problems the world faces.»

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).

Another problem is the oil production peak, and this one is already happening.

One of the biggest problems I see with emissions scenarios is the failure to recognise the growing body of published (peer - reviewed) literature on «peak oil» (and peak coal / gas).

Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel

Muller does not believe that the problem is related to transportation, nor that we are approaching a «Hubbard Peak» on oil (since we have lots of coal and this can easily be converted to liquid fuels with existing «clean» technology).

If we wish to handle peak oil and all the other problems facing humanity with dignity then we have to change.

And then finally, there's the problem that I'm not expert enough to give a firm answer to, but I think it's in prospect if it's not already here, and that is peak oil.

Like I have said before, oil depletion and fossil fuel depletion are the real drivers to alternative energy schemes, not climate change, otherwise people wouldn't be proposing these half - baked ideas to a problem (i.e. Peak Oil) that most people claim does not exioil depletion and fossil fuel depletion are the real drivers to alternative energy schemes, not climate change, otherwise people wouldn't be proposing these half - baked ideas to a problem (i.e. Peak Oil) that most people claim does not exiOil) that most people claim does not exist.

Speaking about the problem peak oil and the solution of utilizing shale oil, Ebell stated that «Human beings have a brain that can find new resources.

It told us that the whole «peak oil» trope was just wrong, that the real name of the problem was Unburnable Carbon.

If the only problem were peak oil and there was no AGW, then we could go ahead and burn as much oil as we like, with the only challenge being to reduce our usage as supplies plateau and decline and we transition to other energy sources — including other fossil fuels.

Russel frames the problems we face, from peak oil to climate change, with a no - nonsense can - do attitude that would appeal to anyone anywhere the spectrum of opinion in America.

Effects of AGW combined with other large scale problems in the earth system (related or not), in relation to the human system such as peak oil, bees dying, ocean degradation, soil nutrient loss, soil moisture loss all point to the punitive effects of mankind's collective tax upon himself.