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JN2 on May 1, 2007 - 1:32pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Swede, yes, but what is the decline rate? ASPO's latest graphs show oil + gas down 40% by 2050, that is less than 1% a year (coal extraction in 2050 is predicted to be no less than today). The latest meme on climate change calls for 80% reduction in CO2 by 2050 or approx 2% per year. So, climate change will not be mitigated by peak carbon; we need to reduce even faster than declining supplies!

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Swede on May 1, 2007 - 2:09pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Yes you could be right JN2

But on the other hand, there is some scientists that somewhat dismiss this carbonhydrate burning as a main reason for GW. It could be that 95% of GW is caused by solarheating, cosmic rays and so on. We have had theese climat changes back in history.
Anyway we can not do anything to mitigate the climat change, and pretty much nothing to for example get China to burn less coal.
I think we are doomed to a climatchange and a die-off. The only thing that we can do is to personally prepare as best we can.

Best Kenneth

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