How many years' worth of petroleum is left in the ground?

[UltraChad]

It's better than whatever you think you've got.

LOL no it's really not.

It just means you signed up for debt you'll probably never pay off.

 

[Politruk]

Relying upon leftwing propaganda

It's not leftwing propaganda, it's just what climate scientists agree on, globally.

 

[Politruk]

There really is a definite scientific consensus here:

A scientific consensus is reached when the vast majority of the scientists involved in a discipline broadly agree on the interpretation of the evidence pertaining to a specific scientific question. When this occurs the case can be considered to have been demonstrated and the burden of proof then falls on those who would dispute the consensus. The following national and international organizations are part of the consensus that global warming is a real phenomenon for which humans are responsible:[28]

• National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Royal Society (UK)
• Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
• UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
• And many more.

Though some have taken non-committal stances, the vast majority of scientific bodies are convinced by the evidence.[note 3] In addition, those pinko tree-huggers at the Pentagon now rank global warming as a "destabilizing force" (damn enviro-weenies).[29][30]

Despite the clarity of the facts, behavioral/social science tells us that simply shoving global warming related scientific data into their face simply solidifies their existing beliefs.[31] There's even a college offering free online classes that teaches you both the science of what is going on and how to fight denialism properly.[32]

 

[Saint_Ann]

It's not leftwing propaganda, it's just what climate scientists agree on, globally.

I don't believe any human brain can grasp an understanding of earth's climate, spread across tempus infinitum.

 

[Politruk]

I don't believe any human brain can grasp an understanding of earth's climate, spread across tempus infinitum.

We don't need to do it on an eternal timescale. The planet itself is not eternal -- and it is probably possible to construct a roughly accurate model of its climate at all times since its formation.

 

[Saint_Ann]

We don't need to do it on an eternal timescale. The planet itself is not eternal -- and it is probably possible to construct a roughly accurate model of its climate at all times since its formation.

You mean.........guess.

 

[Politruk]

You mean.........guess.

Much more than guesswork. The climate of any period can be inferred from geologic clues and fossils.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Short answer, if you're a breathing adult, it won't happen in your lifetime.

Only worry you have is a shortage, due to Peak Stupidity in Govt.

You can deny reality, but you cannot deny the results of denying reality. AR

 

[AceDesSpades]

We don't need to do it on an eternal timescale. The planet itself is not eternal -- and it is probably possible to construct a roughly accurate model of its climate at all times since its formation.

No. It is an absolute impossibility because it is a Chaotic (math, not rhetorical) System. If you constructed THE PERFECT MODEL, you will never know the initial conditions and thus whatever seed data you put into your perfect model, it will never, ever deliver the same, predictable results that you seem to labor under the delusion that are even possible. You would never even know that it was the perfect model, but a false one will oftentimes give you the desired, sought for, result.

Hari Seldon has not been born: he is fictional.

 

[UltraChad]

There really is a definite scientific consensus here:

You reject consensus regularly and refuse to even acknowledge it's existence when it doesn't suit your narrative.

Why should anyone listen to you because suddenly it does??

 

[AceDesSpades]

He's successfully mixed politics and science is all...

In Politico Veritas

 

[Rebel5soul]

Isn't the "Peak Oil Panic" so 1990's?

 

[AceDesSpades]

I know.

Once we invented the ICE, of course we were going to run out of oil.

(In another age, the fight would be against canvas stealing wind via too much navigation.)

All that you had to do was hold the known constant and extrapolate and that equation is a disaster!

But solar blocks my light Alexander!​

 

[AceDesSpades]

Now, we just need the hot, bright light of ICE. Go Biondi!

 

[Rebel5soul]

Until these "green" jackasses start talking up nuclear as part of the solution there is no way any reasonable person can take them seriously.

 

[AceDesSpades]

CCCC

 

[UltraChad]

Until these "green" jackasses start talking up nuclear as part of the solution there is no way any reasonable person can take them seriously.

But building those requires people with actual skills!!!!

How will they get a bunch of money and not produce anything for it?? Better stay on the green scams that AREN'T EVEN GREEN!!!! LOL

 

[AceDesSpades]

Nuclear terrifies them because it can be weaponized, just like their fears.


Science

 

[Rebel5soul]

This is just the foundation for a wind turbine.

 

[AceDesSpades]

They just do not kill that many birds and those are [*not-so* ] shovel-ready jobs.

 

[MajorRewrite]

You mean.........guess.

Density set to maximum!

 

[AceDesSpades]

Supernova

 

[AceDesSpades]

Monday Morning Quarterbacking

The proof of the abundance of fossil fuels is how little their prices have increased over the century and a half of widespread and increasing usage. Inflation-adjusted, their prices have been virtually flat for that entire time.

Even more important and significant than the abundance of any single resource is what the economist Julian Simon called “the Ultimate Resource:” human creativity.

Human creativity is not just abundant, it grows and multiplies itself exponentially. It is almost magical in the countless ways it can increase the abundance and efficiency of virtually every other resource beneficial to humans. The clearest recent example is “artificial intelligence.” As Ralph Waldo Emerson observed long ago, “Invention breeds invention.”

On Thanksgiving consider adding abundance to your list of things to give thanks for.

Ron Ross Ph.D. is a former economics professor

 

[Rebel5soul]

How many times are we going to have to revisit the "Peak Oil" panics?

 

[AceDesSpades]

Repetition is the key to success.

Lies come in relays.

Always fresh...