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Well put UndercoverElephant. Here is some more commentary by Steven R. Kopits.

I guess not.

Worthy of comment?

New York Times: Economic Optimism? Yes, I’ll Take That Bet

I feel that this song resonates with many aspects of our predicament. Forecloser Of A Dream - Megadeth Rise so high, yet so far to fall A plan of dignity and balance for all Political breakthrough, euphoria's high More borrowed money, more borrowed time Backed in a corner, caught up in the race Mean...

At a glance the report doesn't seem to define exactly what "Renewables" is comprised of. I seem to remember reading it once included incinerated rubbish?

emordnilap wrote:

lulubel wrote:Maybe the strategy should be to realise that growth isn't a strategy any more.

Agreed. I think that makes, oooo, three, possibly four, of us. "A good start is half the work". Not.

CASSE have made a pretty good start for you already. Have you signed up yet?

Given that our government defer to the IEA for advice on energy policy, doesn’t this acknowledgement (if it were more widely discussed) make it harder for them to continue to be dismissive about peak oil? Especially when taken together with recent comments from the EU’s Commissioner for Energy? Has ...

With respect, it's not specifically a peak oil forum. :wink: Well, it says "The UK's Peak Oil Discussion Forum & Community" at the top of every page. Recommend my thread on newbies, read through those reports and see what you think. I recommend you add links to the UK ITPOES 2008/2010...

With respect, I think you (LB3 and emordnilap) are rather missing the point. Isn't the significant thing that IEA have acknowledged a historic peak in conventional oil? Yes, this has been mentioned in other threads, but hardly discussed to the level that one might expect on a peak oil forum.

I just thought I would spell it out again for those people who must have missed it: Crude oil output reaches an undulating plateau of around 68-69 mb/d by 2020, but never regains its all-time peak of 70 mb/d reached in 2006 , while production of natural gas liquids (NGL) and unconventional oil grows...

Yes.

[sigh] For anyone still interested, the book explains how the aggressive corporatisation/commercialisation of the last few of decades has left the news media significantly weakened and much more susceptible to commercially/politically motivated PR and strategic information. Maximising profit has cre...

Some analysis by Chris Martenson on the IEA's WEO 2010.

As I said...

Adam Polczyk wrote:Isn't the significant thing, that the European Commissioner for Energy has openly acknowledged that he thinks "The amount of oil available globally ... has already peaked"?

Isn't that important?