[LINK] Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

Alan L Tyree alan at austlii.edu.au
Mon Feb 5 12:46:03 AEDT 2007


On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:02:59 +1100
Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 11:43 +1100, Richard Archer wrote:
> > I see peak oil as inevitable and the consequences dire.
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > I see climate change
> > as almost irrelevant. The knowledge and technology exists right
> > now to deal with anything climate change can throw at us.
> 
> Nope. Not without oil... or a radically reduced population and lots
> and lots of time.
> 
> > Droughts: we have the knowledge to completely drought-proof
> > Australia and even to reclaim deserts.
> 
> Nope. Not without oil.
> 
> > Storms: we can design and erect buildings that can withstand
> > any weather nature can produce. Or in the third world, erect
> > buildings that are so cheap that they are almost disposable.
> 
> Nope. Not without oil.
> 
> > Mass extinctions: climate change triggered extinction events
> > will be nowhere near the scale of extinctions humans have
> > directly caused.
> 
> That's debatable. In any case, when the oil runs out the devastation
> will be incredible. Think six billion starving people. They'll erase
> almost everything on the land surface of the planet as they go.

During WW II the Germans made oil-type products from coal. I don't know
what technology is involved, but is it a substitute? The "peak" for
coal is many, many times further away than for oil.

Alan


> 
> Regards, K.
> 
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