Again no one denies climate is not real it’s been happening for 6 -7 thousand years and not just the 200 yrs your professor claims
Ah - so Brisbane - Christian - and Young Earth Creationist. Got it.
No anti-climate biases here!
When I say that ( it is always the everyday person that is milked and has to pay ) you reply is economic impact. If you implying climate impact. Then how much you think ? Maybe something like ex prime minister Kevin Rudds policy of a carbon footprint for every business and individual. Which thankfully wasn’t implemented because he was ousted some say being a tyrant and a law unto himself within his own party. How much do we already pay in environmental taxes. Lots. But you seem to want more.
When you can actually address the replies I have already given to this point - I'll bother to reply.
Big pink blocks do not make you appear to have more points.
Eclipse when you say oil has peaked.
Read what I actually wrote. Conventional oil has peaked. But you do not seem to want to bother with complicated things like 'data' and the fact that there are multiple varieties of oil - so I don't know why I'm bothering to try and explain this to you. Your replies are so uninformed as to be glib.
Has supply and demand been affected. NO So it has no bearing on what your claiming nor on reality .
Glib. Uninformed.
The REALITY is that if the entire world of conventional oil has peaked, that means that only the more fragile reservoirs of unconventional oil are holding the balance.
It means that the 'cheap oil' era of the past is gone. Here - let me use a metaphor.
Imagine you pick apples on holidays, and have a beach mission you're supplying with 2 wheelbarrow loads of apples each morning. It's an apple-themed mission with food, games, apple-bobbing, everything apples.
You have a few weeks to pick these from a field of fantastic apple trees.
The first week is really easy - as they're all the lower apples - and you can do your 2 wheelbarrow loads in just a few hours.
But the second week you look around and it's taking longer to do each wheelbarrow. Why? All the low hanging fruit are gone. You have to carry a ladder with you. It's far more work to climb up and get those higher up apples, then you have to climb down again just to move the ladder when you could just walk before - then you climb up again. This for every branch! You realise at the end of the first week that you're never going to be able to fill 2 barrow loads a day again!
It's the same with oil. Conventional oil is the great stuff in just the right spot. While no one ever shot a hole in the ground 'and up came a bubbling crude - oil that is - Texas tea - black gold." (Beverly Hillbillies) - it WAS a whole bunch easier to mine conventional oil fields with those nodding donkey drills than it is to use high tech horizontal mining of the deep-sea floor many kilometres below sea level! That's a whole lot more expensive kit - and a whole lot harder to mine!
Or the extra ingredients and energy in shale oil or tar sands. Watch some YouTube documentaries on the extra energy it takes to extract that stuff.
Bottom line? We've used all the cheap stuff. Now comes the more expensive, less abundant harder half of the oil age. We're not RUNNING OUT of oil any time soon - but we are going to start running down. We have to. And the global market has to keep the price at a higher point than has been the average for decades. I'm not saying where exactly on the 'peak' we are standing - from our perspective it looks more like a plateau.
But here are the facts you seem unable to absorb:-
1. The last time we found more oil than we burned was 1985.
The good news?
EV's are here, and growing cheaper and penetrating markets faster.
Your objections are rubbish.
The world has truly mind-bogglingly vast resources of cheap alternative renewable energy available.
Backing all of that up is not a problem when you overbuild supply so that:-
1. Everything runs on electricity
2. The overbuilt capacity is not 'extra' just to 'firm' supply - but is actually doing economically profitable work.
3. This new super-grid can have afternoon Perth sunlight powering Sydney cooking in the dark!
4. It does not pollute - and does not empower oil Petro-tyrants, and can be shared economically and peacefully around the world.
5. Indeed - some see a future global grid being cheaper than continental-sized grids - and important renewable electricity trading might encourage more world peace.
It’s what we call being stewards of Gods black liquid.
Funny how you put an emphasis on burning a finite resource up as somehow being good 'stewards' of that resource!
Yet you don't seem to care about 'stewarding' the biosphere, saving 8 million lives a year from oil pollution, saving the world from well funded Petro-Dictators like Russia and the Middle East and Venezuela, and protecting a stable climate for future generations.
But oil!? Yeah - look out - Kathleen wants to 'steward it'.
Please - don't ever try to 'steward me' will you Kathleen?
I'm not sure you know what the word means.
"And again our green environment thrives on the fumes of the industrial world."
Oh great! What happened - did you talk to someone at church and they passed you your next denial talking point? I know where this is going - and no - it's not as simple as you think!