November 9, 2007 The questions I address in this post are: - Who
is working on peak oil and climate change and what are their
conclusions? - How much oil is left? How much coal is left? - So
is the IPCC wrong? - What does peak oil mean for climate change?
- What should we do now? - Where can I get the original reports?
Q. Who is working on peak oil and climate change? The number of
people who have analyzed whether there are sufficient
hydrocarbons to produce the scenarios in the IPCC reports is
small but growing. This will undoubtedly change as more
scientists and engineers learn about peak oil. Hansen is
weighing in and his revised report was submitted for publication
in July of this year to the Geophysical Research Letters
(http://www.agu.org/journals/gl). You will find the complete
report here: Implications of "Peak Oil" for Atmospheric CO2 and
Climate (336KB pdf) Hansen and Kharecha, July 2007 Jean
Laherrere was apparently the first to bring up peak oil in
relation to climate change. Richard Heinberg pull