Re: Al Gore on Space

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:03:04 -0500, in a place far, far away,
"jonathan" <Write@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:


"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:45bfea13.688795395@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:55:35 -0500, in a place far, far away,
"jonathan" <Write@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

You guys do realize that fossil fuel production will
peak within ten years....right?

Wrong.


Oops, it seems my guestimate is a bit off.


World Oil Production and Peaking Outlook

"The central conclusion made from our research is that the production
of world liquids (all oil and oil equivalent resources) will approximately
peak around 2012. Liquids production is expected to form a
"plateau" for approximately 6 years starting around 2010.
This peak could arrive earlier if our estimate for world decline rates
proves to be too low. It also could arrive later, around 2017, if oil
companies succeed in improving the recovery rate of oil due to
technological improvements."
http://www.odac-info.org/assessments/documents/ponlreport.pdf

And I should read a seventy-seven page report, and we should take
"their research" seriously...why?

That is, other than that it confirms your own hysteria and political
agenda?

While in twenty
years world demand for energy will.....double.

Probably supply will as well, or more, if prices remain at their
current levels.


Read my post today on a related subject.

It provided no intelligent or economically literate commentary on the
matter.

By the way, jonathan, what happened to the hurricanes this year? I
thought that global warming meant we were going to be battered every
year?

They told us this spring that it would be as bad or worse than last
year. Are you going to blame the lack of hurricanes on global warming
now?


Global warming means more irratic weather patterns.
Greater extremes. Which means less predictability
ie....chaos.

Ahhhh...I see.

Your linear mindset is dated, but still quaint.

No less quaint (in fact, a lot more) than grabbing on momentary
political events to attempt to gull people as gullible as you into
hysterical political positions. It's one of the oldest games in the
book.
.

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