Comments on: The Next Five Years–Peak Lite and the Current Oil Picture http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2009/03/the-next-five-years-peak-lite-and-the-current-oil-picture/ Truth in Energy Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:35:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Bill R http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2009/03/the-next-five-years-peak-lite-and-the-current-oil-picture/#comment-2218 Bill R Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:42:26 +0000 http://www.aspousa.org/?p=1199#comment-2218 Robert Rapier I think is largely right. Fossil Fuel depletion should be one of several reasons that we need to move away from fossil fuels. I wonder what Peter Weggeman thinks of CO2 causing acidification of the oceans. Robert Rapier I think is largely right. Fossil Fuel depletion should be one of several reasons that we need to move away from fossil fuels.

I wonder what Peter Weggeman thinks of CO2 causing acidification of the oceans.

]]> By: Peter Weggeman http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2009/03/the-next-five-years-peak-lite-and-the-current-oil-picture/#comment-2204 Peter Weggeman Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:02:42 +0000 http://www.aspousa.org/?p=1199#comment-2204 Excellent summary and prognonsis. I am a retired chemist (petro-chemicals) following peak fossil fuels and man-made global warming as a hobby. I agree that fossil fuels have an economic peak and a geological peak. Poor countries will experience the economic peak first. It remains to be seen how major oil/gas producers balance the two peaks. A third factor in play now is the speed with which alternative energy systems including nuclear are deployed. There is a fourth factor; the public will see through the man-made global warming story in a few years. Fundamental physics tells us more CO2 warms the air in sharply decreasing increments and we know there is already enough CO2 in the atmosphere to absorb the few infra-red bands from earth that warm CO2. Thermal spectra of earth prove these bands are absorbed in the lower atmosphere. Whatever additional CO2 will do to our atmosphere, warming it will not be one of them. Global warming alarmists conveniently imply that CO2 concentration and warming are linear...more CO2, more heat...this is absolutely not so. This will refocus conservation and innovation on the fossils depletion issue which should be the only basis for energy planning. Excellent summary and prognonsis. I am a retired chemist (petro-chemicals) following peak fossil fuels and man-made global warming as a hobby. I agree that fossil fuels have an economic peak and a geological peak. Poor countries will experience the economic peak first. It remains to be seen how major oil/gas producers balance the two peaks. A third factor in play now is the speed with which alternative energy systems including nuclear are deployed. There is a fourth factor; the public will see through the man-made global warming story in a few years. Fundamental physics tells us more CO2 warms the air in sharply decreasing increments and we know there is already enough CO2 in the atmosphere to absorb the few infra-red bands from earth that warm CO2. Thermal spectra of earth prove these bands are absorbed in the lower atmosphere. Whatever additional CO2 will do to our atmosphere, warming it will not be one of them. Global warming alarmists conveniently imply that CO2 concentration and warming are linear…more CO2, more heat…this is absolutely not so. This will refocus conservation and innovation on the fossils depletion issue which should be the only basis for energy planning.

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