Straight From The Foxes Mouth
Thanks to babynutcase for yet one more peak oil tip. And wow. it's from Fox News (i really liked their first sloagn "we report, you decide" better than the F&B, but w/e): The Headline is "Global Oil Production May Peak Soon." Here's a tidbit:
Once we reach this tipping point, known as "Hubbert's Peak," also known as "peak oil," global oil production will begin an irreversible decline and less oil will be available with every passing year, scientists say. Energy experts no longer debate about whether Hubbert's peak will occur, but when. On this point, estimates vary wildly. Kenneth Deffeyes, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, believes it has already happened — in late 2005.
Wow. Just like with climate change; the crazies who (10 years ago) were saying we have about 20 years left are now joined in chorus by the likes of Hansen et al, all the experts, who now say that there's about 10 years left. And now with Peak oil, the crazies like Deffeyes (a student of Marrion King Hubbert), are being joined by the experts, and now people are taking it seriously. Is it human nature to ignore all the harbingers until you get smacked in the face with a brick wall? I know if I was driving a car, and the passenger tells me that there's a brick wall stopping the road in another 100 meters, I would at the very least slow down a bit to see if there is any validity. I wouldn't get Hannity & Combs to call the passenger an idiot and a tin-foil hatter. And now that it looks inevitable here comes the press to tell us a new discovery! Gee, thanks. Thanks for ignoring decades of information that didn't serve your purpose. Again like climate, what frightens me is that if they are telling is this now, then it must really be around the corner...
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