keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:56 am Post subject: Nobel conference to focus on energy |
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I'm surprised by this announcement. Nine months ago PO was the province of bloggers almost exclusively. Ask yourselves, if the Nobel people are looking into it, can it really be tin hat territory?
Nobel conference to focus on energy
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By Dan Linehan
The Free Press
ST PETER �
...The energy debate � how to deal with problems caused by our oil dependence and the search for alternatives � will be the conference�s 43rd subject when it begins Oct. 2 at Gustavus Adolphus College.
Global warming and oil depletion are the twin specters of fossil fuels, said Timothy Robinson, psychology professor and conference director.
...NASA climatologist James Hansen developed the scientific basis for the argument that rising carbon dioxide levels are stimulating the greenhouse effect. He�s one of seven speakers at the conference.
..Hansen predicted a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide from pre-industrial levels would cause a temperature increase of 3 degrees Celsius, or 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
So far, carbon-dioxide levels have risen by 26 percent from the pre-industrial baseline and temperatures have risen by about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit, Jeremiason said...
Oil depletion � more commonly known as peak oil � will be tackled by Kenneth Deffeyes, professor emeritus of geosciences at Princeton University. The hypothesis gets it name from the belief that oil extraction will eventually �peak� at a certain date and decline thereafter.
Deffeyes predicted early in 2006 that oil had �peaked� in December 2005.
[Poster's Note: regarding crude oil, this is accurate, but it was May according to IEA data, I believe.]
Deffeyes is a former colleague of Marion King Hubbert, a Shell Oil geologist and the first to argue that oil supplies would soon peak... |
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