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Tag Archives: permian
Peak oil in the news 2023
Preface. Conventional crude oil production may have already peaked in 2008 at 69.5 million barrels per day (mb/d) according to Europe’s International Energy Agency (IEA 2018 p45). The U.S. Energy Information Agency shows global peak crude oil production at a … Continue reading
Posted in Oil & Gas Fracked, Peak Oil
Tagged bakken, oil, OPEC, peak oil, peak shale, permian, shale
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Largest Mass Extinction caused by Mega-Eruptions in Siberia
Kerr, R.A. December 20, 2013. Mega-Eruptions Drove the Mother of Mass Extinctions. Science Vol. 342:1424 [Excerpts] After 20 years of trying, researchers have finally convicted massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia as the culprit in the greatest of all mass extinctions, … Continue reading
Michael J. Benton, paleontologist: Runaway Greenhouse
Benton, M.J. Presidential Address 2007: The end-Permian mass extinction events on land in Russia. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association Volume 119, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-136 Conclusion: If the runaway greenhouse model is correct and explains perhaps the biggest crisis … Continue reading
Posted in World's Best Scientists
Tagged benton, extinction, permian, runaway greenhouse
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When Life Nearly Died. The greatest mass extinction of all time
[ Benton shows why it was probably lava flows, not impact from meteors that caused the Permian extinction. I don’t know why everyone isn’t reading whatever they can find on the greatest mass murder of all time — the Permian … Continue reading
Posted in But not from climate change: Peak Fossil Fuels, Extinction Books
Tagged extinction, gas hydrate, methane hydrate, peak coal, peak natural gas, peak oil, permian
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