Suddenly my daughter, who’s seven, said, “You’re lucky you got to have your adulthood before the planet was completely destroyed by climate change.” I didn’t know this was on her mind. I hadn’t spent all that much time talking to her about it. And the worst part, somehow, ...
But I have been trying to make the point for many years that global warming or climate change or whatever euphemism you decide on, is really just one side of the coin. The other side is the availability of fossil fuels to begin with. In simple terms, the earth is a finite hunk of ...
As my example model shows, one can produce a year over year rate of change chart that looks a lot like the Bakken year over year rates of change, but by the time that the decline has settled down to 10% per year, 90% of the wells completed in year one of the model (2010) are ...
Owen Paterson, the Environment Secretary, has held out the prospect that a fracking boom in the UK would lower energy prices – just a day after leading climate change economist Lord Stern dismissed a similar claim by David Cameron as “baseless”. Taqa seeks green light on Kurdish oil product...
And when the price of oil subsided in the 1980s, the political impetus for radical change evaporated. The foolhardiness of this short-sightedness has now come back to haunt the developed world in the shape of global warming. If the lessons of the 1970s had been properly heeded, even ...
change such as co2 and methane releases caused by our burning fossil fuels. To think that our industrial civilization will not pull out all stops to maintain itself, even in the face of eventual financial ruin, is foolish. And I await the figures which show that we are falling off the ...
Only a Sith deals in Absolutes.. bunyonhead on January 22, 2009 - 4:48pm Permalink | Parent | Comments top My wife and I ended up divorcing largely as a result of me not wanting us to have a second child. As I became more aware of peak oil, climate change, carrying capacity, ...
Hydropower is not the only part of the nation’s energy system that appears increasingly vulnerable to the impact of climate change, as low water levels affect coal-fired and nuclear power plants’ operations and impede the passage of coal barges along the Mississippi River. Naimi Says Supply ...
Eager anticipation of the next American president offering a dramatically different policy on climate change is being tempered by the chill winds of the financial crisis. Barack Obama or John McCain will inherit a blighted economy, a ballooning deficit set to reach $1 trillion and a political land...
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