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Politics: IEA pick 2020 as the date for peak oil...

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    • CommentAuthorSimonH
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2008
     
    George Monbiot just sent out his latest article following an interview with the IEA lead economist Fatih Birol.

    IEA seem to have responded to the amount of chatter about this subject over the last few years and actaully done some reasearch on 800 of the worlds larget oilfields (instead of making up the numbers!!). Instead of decline rates being 3.7% they are now 6.7%.

    "Birol says we need a “global energy revolution” to avoid an oil crunch, including (disastrously for the environment) a massive global drive to exploit unconventional oils, such as the Canadian tar sands. But nothing on this scale has yet happened, and Hirsch suggests that even if it began today, the necessary investments and infrastructure changes could not be made in time. Fatih Birol told me “I think time is not on our side here.”"

    When you realize the british government's position has been bsed laregly on the IEA position, you'll see that we should soon be expecting some policy announcements.

    Newsletter here...
    http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/12/15/at-last-a-date/

    Video interview here...
    http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/12/15/fatih-birol-challenged/

    Simon.
    • CommentAuthormarktime
    • CommentTimeDec 15th 2008
     
    Some interesting comments on the IEA position and an even greater depletion rate in the Simmons/Hirch interview link posted by Biff:

    http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/main.html

    Strongly reinforces what Monbiot is saying.

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