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How Energy Saving Lighting And Global Warming Are Connected
With global warming gaining ever more political attention (and resulting legislation) and the clear evidence that we are now past the point of "peak oil" (and that henceforth oil is set to become ever more difficult to extract and accordingly ever more expensive to burn) it is becoming obvious that the only viable world for the immediate future is a low energy consumption world, and a key ... Unappealing Characters, Dubious Assertions
But you do have to bite your tongue when he comes out with gems such as "...Peak Oil is not like climate change: there is no consensus among scientists about when it is likely to happen. "
Sorry George, I see no consensus about when or even if climate ... Alternatives to Oil
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The first being that old favourite - denial. No problem; no alternatives required.
This cheery approach rests on the belief that existing fossil fuel reserves are not past their peak capacity, and even if they are there is more to found elsewhere (preferably somewhere un-Islamic).
This is wishful thinking. The well established theory of peak oil clearly tells us that we have now used about half of all the oil believed to exist on the planet. And because we have been guzzling it at ever increasing rates, what is left is unlikely to last as long as the previous 50% did.
Futhermore, what remains is more difficult and expensive to extract. Try a Google search ... What Happens When the Oil Runs Out?
There is quite simply not the oil to burn even if we wanted to.
Well, of course oil never will run out as such. But for practical (and worryingly immediate) purposes, we have to accept that our days of relatively cheap and accessible fuel are seriously numbered.
The theory of peak oil is widely accepted and predicts the point at which global production of oil will reach a peak i.e. when half of the world's viably recoverable oil has already been used up.
The peak will be followed by a rapid and irreversible decline in the supply of oil. Our present rate of consumption guarantees that we will burn ... 
