Sentences with phrase «think peak oil»

I am far more concerned about climate change in the long run, though I think peak oil and gas may be worse crises in the short run.

Which, by implication, means you think Peak Oil is a less urgent reason.

That said, I also do not think peak oil is an existential immediate crisis.

Personally, I believe in global warming, but I think peak oil will hit much sooner.

Though we would have voted for global warming — it's a bit semantic, but we've always thought peak oil and global warming have something of a cause and effect relationship, so it's a bit of apples and oranges here — it's tough to argue against the pure volatility of an oil - thirsty world when the well starts to run dry.

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Neither cut was a particular surprise: Buffett had previously said he erred in buying Conoco at a peak price for oil (though now, of course, the commodity's rising price is putting a different cast on the investment) and he had publicly protested Kraft's 2010 purchase of Cadbury, which he thought not in the interests of Kraft's shareholders.

The agency that is known by traders as the agency that has way underestimated, is now proclaiming the United States as the new global energy powerhouse, a moniker by the peak oil freaks and the Obama Administration that was thought to be impossible.

But it does make you think that maybe our worry about «peak oil» and nuclear meltdowns is all just a phase.

Many thought we had reached the limits of oil production and the global peak was nigh.

We think that the crude oil production has already peaked in 2006, but we expect oil to come from the natural gas liquids, the type of liquid we have through the production of gas, and also a bit from the oil sands.

I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that we're about to «run out» — rather, the claim made by the Peak Oil theorists is that we're at or near peak productPeak Oil theorists is that we're at or near peak productpeak production.

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.

Peak oil is not going to save us — and I know that Hansen doesn't think so.

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.

Of course, if instead of a fear of peak oil, the military was thinking long term of securing fuel supplies for its operations in the event of a disruption of imported fuel supplies, this might also make sense for their actions.

Re # 5 I think there is a good chance that Peak Oil could dramatically slow coal use within the next decade.

Peak oil used to be about running out of supply; now some think that we will run out of demand.

When you're ready to loop back and think more about the carbon bubble in particular, see From «peak oil» to «unburnable carbon», which I wrote last year when Carbon Tracker's Carbon Bubble report was released.

I think the world is probably close to peak oil.

This is what the general public thinks of as «oil», and is the reason for panic about peak oil.

This, and many other countries run on oil, and if the Peak Oil theorists are correct, this will be a Hobsons» Choice with regards to our future food supply and where it comes from: Think Soilent Green: Yet it may look suspiciously like a twinkie or a Slim Jim processed by slaves from third world countries... Hey wait, I think I'm talking about our present food suppoil, and if the Peak Oil theorists are correct, this will be a Hobsons» Choice with regards to our future food supply and where it comes from: Think Soilent Green: Yet it may look suspiciously like a twinkie or a Slim Jim processed by slaves from third world countries... Hey wait, I think I'm talking about our present food suppOil theorists are correct, this will be a Hobsons» Choice with regards to our future food supply and where it comes from: Think Soilent Green: Yet it may look suspiciously like a twinkie or a Slim Jim processed by slaves from third world countries... Hey wait, I think I'm talking about our present food suThink Soilent Green: Yet it may look suspiciously like a twinkie or a Slim Jim processed by slaves from third world countries... Hey wait, I think I'm talking about our present food suthink I'm talking about our present food supply.

When I read Dot Earth, I get irritated by those who deny the realities of global warming or peak oil or overpopulation; who are unwilling to change in thinking or in attitude or in lifestyle.

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.

More and more, I think the Evil Trio is Global Warming, Peak Oil, and Water, and I'm not sure of the priority.

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

Fossil fuel is finite resource, I think signals from peak oil are very clear such as marginal oil wells, etc..

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.

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....

Many bright minds inside the industry think we are already at peak oil.

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.

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.

M. King Hubbert, after whom the method is named, was a the Shell geologist who founded the peak oil school of thought.

For more than a decade, a fierce debate about peak oil has been raging between those who think a peak in global oil production is at hand and those who think the world is not close to running out of oil.

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And speaking of quantitative reasoning, it is extremely hypocritical for people like you to accuse me of not providing such when, as I said, their thinking is entirely based on faith, not on any numbers, and when the people who study thing like Peak Oil are the ones with the numbers.

For a while, I thought there might be something like peak oil production which would by itself restrain GHG emissions.

Since that serves to argue against Peak Oil (which is better supported than any IPCC model, I might add), I think it harms the long - term objective of getting off our oil addictiOil (which is better supported than any IPCC model, I might add), I think it harms the long - term objective of getting off our oil addictioil addiction.

We've already noted that survivalism is the new black, and with climate change, peak oil, and rising food prices all vying for our attention, it's little wonder that folks all over are thinking more and more about what they would do if our

With oil prices down from where they were a year ago (though rising steadily in the past few weeks) and the constant stream of project announcements in the renewable energy sector still flowing in I'll forgive you if you haven't thought about peak oil

BBC Explores One Farm's Plans for Peak Oil - Apparently... I'm very proud of all that Planet Green is doing to raise environmental awareness, but I think it's fair to say that the television industry is not doing all it could to draw attention to the

I happen to think that Gilles is just plain wrong, but I also happen to think that Peak Oil presents a far more serious, and far nearer term, risk than AGW.

And I think it goes some way to explaining why peak oil is such a compelling meme for many of us environmentalists.

Leading geologists now think oil production may soon peak and turn downward.

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.

I think I am up to 14,000 posts of TheOilDrum.com (tech central for Peak Oil), a chapter in «transport Beyond Oil» (Island Press), Millennium Institute, etc..

Or has peak oil been a central tenet of environmental thought?