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- The staggering cost of Net Zero in Britain
- Why the R/P Reserves to Production ratio does not show when oil will run out
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- Book Review of Grain Brain: Extraordinary claim not backed up by evidence
- Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?
- What would happen if trucks stopped running?
- How to survive a nuclear winter
- The insect apocalypse will kill billions more people than climate change
- The war on drugs. A book review of “Chasing the scream”
- Peak crude oil did not happen in 2018. But we are running out of time
- Sheriffs have too much power
- Book review “They poisoned the world: Life & death in the age of Forever Chemicals”
- John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves
- Ted Trainer: The radical implications of a zero growth economy
Author Archives: energyskeptic
Paul Chefurka: A really nasty oscillating decline, wirth steep falls & desperate partial recoveries
“Approaching the Limits to Growth” is the name of my site, given before I was convinced we were already at the limits. I now recognize that we are past them, and that there was really no way to avoid ending … Continue reading
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Peak fossil fuels means global warming less than projected
This Science article states we could emit CO2 at the same rate we are now for another 50 years before going over the 2 degrees Celsius level we need to avoid a runaway greenhouse. Since we are at peak world fossil … Continue reading
Posted in CO2 and Methane, Coal, Global Warming, Oil
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Stephen Hawking: Escape to another planet before we go extinct
The only method of propulsion we have to escape the planet is, you guessed it, fossil fuels, and they don’t come anywhere near to getting us to the speed of light necessary to get to even the closest star. Nor … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge Centre Study of Existential Risk, What to do
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Science book review of Vaclav Smil’s “Approaching the Limits”
Steven W. Running Science 15 March 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6125 pp. 1276-1277 DOI: 10.1126/science.1235886 Approaching the Limits Harvesting the Biosphere What We Have Taken from Nature by Vaclav Smil MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29, £19.95. ISBN … Continue reading
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China is working on cyber attacks of our infrastructure and stealing secrets
Stone, R. March 1, 2013. A Call to Cyber Arms. Science, Vol. 339 no. 6123 pp. 1026-1027 China’s extensive cyber research activities and allegations over cyber espionage have put the United States on high alert. The U.S. government is ramping … Continue reading
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Tagged cyber attack, cyber war
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Ground water declining at an alarming rate in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey
[ Lack of water in this region is destabilizing and thus could affect oil production as desperate populations migrate, civil wars, and social unrest unfold. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, … Continue reading
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China food security: climate change likely to reduce rice, wheat, and other crop yields
Climate change is also likely to lower wheat production: Global warming will have a bad effect on heat-sensitive wheat, slashing yields even more than was originally feared. It could be much harder than we thought to feed everyone in a … Continue reading
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Tagged china, climate change, starvation
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Soot warming earth even more than thought
Richard A. Kerr Science 25 January 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6118 p. 382 DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6118.382 Soot Is Warming the World Even More Than Thought A new study finds that soot is warming the climate about twice as fast as scientists … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Pollution, Runaway Greenhouse
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Climate Change deadlines: the longer we do nothing, the worse it gets
Thomas F. Stocker Science 18 January 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6117 pp. 280-282 DOI: 10.1126/science.1232468 The Closing Door of Climate Targets Robust evidence from a range of climate–carbon cycle models shows that the maximum warming relative to pre-industrial times caused … Continue reading
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Climate change is causing increased salinity in water and soil world-wide
November 23, 2012. Climate Change–Induced Salinity Threatens Health. Science Vol 338: 1028-1029 Sea-level rise, storm surges, and cyclones exacerbated by climate change have begun to severely affect coasts and river estuaries in low-income countries. The resulting increased salinity in soil … Continue reading
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