In addition, China is building ONE coal-fired power station a week and is a major contributor to CO2 emissions.Įven if 'so-called' carbon-offset schemes were carried out in developing countries and every poor nation on the planet became carbon-free, we would still have to cut most of the carbon we produce at home. China, which accounts for almost 17% (a 6th) of World population, will be using over 21,000,000 barrels of oil a DAY by 2025. The United States accounts for 5% of World Population, yet they consume over a quarter of the worlds oil each year and contribute more than 30% in CO2 emissions.
To accomplish this would require a 60% cut in total global climate emissions by 2030, which means a 90% cut in the rich world. If runaway climate change triggers the irreversible melting (in our lifetime) of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and drives hundreds of millions of people from their homes, the global temperature rise must be confined to 2C above pre-industrial levels. This fast dwindling resource will not only become quite scare within the next 15 to 20 years (or earlier if war or conflict should interrupt supplies), but easily extracted OIL and GAS will be just about exhausted by 2050/60 - or much earlier if China and India continues to grow at their current rate of GDP. It appears to me that everyone is missing the fact that climate change, which I'm certain will be traumatic for so many reasons, will NOT turn out to be our greatest challenge!īy far, our greatest challenge(s) will be the security of an energy supply in the VERY near future, and the ever increasing World Population 'created' solely by OIL has been the main catalyst in creating and maintaining our modern civilisation over the past 140 years.Īt the rate of 86 million barrels of oil being currently used EVERY DAY in the World (equal to the volume of 5,700 Olympic sized swimming pools), we actually reached peak oil production in late 2003 (hence Iraq?). Whilst the UK produces a mere 2% of the World's carbon emissions, the USA produces around 30% in annual carbon emissions, and China which is building a new coal-powered station every WEEK, is now producing well over 15% and growing, in annual carbon emissions. Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' should convince any sane person of the reality - regardless of past ice ages and so-called warming periods. Climate change, due to the burning of fossil fuels (especially OIL & COAL) over the past 400 years, is now undeniable. I have been closely analysing the question of Global Warming, Carbon Emissions and Energy Supply & Usage for some years now, and have come to the stark conclusion that our attempt to significantly reduce carbon emissions in the UK is, in reality, a futile exercise. I found Nigel Calder's argument about the alternative theory of Global Warming interesting, but like so many theorists he is missing the point that Global Warming will NOT be humanities greatest challenge. One wonders if peak oil production were not around the corner whether we would have this current dogmatism on man made climate change.
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While rapid climate change is a matter of scientific debate on issues which scientists themselves admit is full of unknowns, our exsistential dependence on irreplacable fossil fuels is indeed a certainty. Instead a covert approach to secure the last remaining oil resources, through lies, murder and manipulation has been the response, as Rt Hon Michael Meacher says in this excellent film. This imminent and calamitous condition of dwindling energy resources has not been dealt with by any government in an open way. It seems to me that a more credible explanation for the current frenzy of almost religous belief in man made global warming is the imminent approach of peak oil. It's heartening to see Newsnight cover this interesting theory, and not merely trundle along with the recent 90% consensus on the issue.
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