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‘The international community has been laboring for 10 years under the Kyoto Protocol negotiations to agree on a global reduction of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of less than 10 percent by 2012. So the market has achieved within a few months what internatio.....
Energy supply : From Expansion to Contraction By C.J.Campbell (Chairman, Association for the Study of Peak Oil) Many people ask: Are we running out of oil? The simple answer is; Yes, we started doing that when we consumed the first gallon. But running out is not the main point when wha.....
The Energy Return on Time While writing the recent piece on home heating, I was surprised to calculate many different numbers for the energy return on firewood. Though the outputs were only slightly different in quantity of BTUs, there was a wide range of inputs. But the primary reason for the ret.....
In January 2004, Shell drops a bombshell. We are sorry, dear financial regulators, they say, but we don't seem to have as much oil as we said we have. Outrage in the City. In March it gets worse: our CEO and head of exploration have been telling the board porkies, we fear, says a contrite board......
The World is not about to run out of oil, but what it does face is the end of the First Half of the Age of Oil. That opened 150 years ago when wells were drilled for oil on the shores of the Caspian and in Pennsylvania. The cheap, convenient and abundant energy, it supplied, led to the growth of ind.....
« Public writer Laura Jones made a cautionary argument for reason in a 1997 essay: In 1798, Thomas Malthus predicted in An Essay on Population that the world would run out of food. In 1972 Limits to Growth, published by the Club of Rome, predicted that the world will run out of gold in 1.....
Climate Change, Sabre Tooth Tigers and Devaluing the Future The debate on the realities of both climate change and Peak Oil has moved from 'are they real?' to questions concerning timing, magnitude and impact. At the same time, expanding research in 'temporal discounting' in econo.....
Chris Skrebowski responds to CERA reportdebunking Peak Oil 'Theory' On November 10th 2006 Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) published a report entitled Why the Peak Oil Theory Falls Down: Myths, Legends, and the Future of Oil Resources authored by Peter M. J.....
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