The Oil Drum

To put the whole Climate Change issue into perspective vis-a-vis the Peak Oil Crisis, everyone needs to ask themselves, their associates, all sitting elected officials and those seeking office, especially the office of President of the United States, "What is more threatening in both the long and short terms, a beneficial 1 degree F rise in average world temperatures over the past 100 years, or a 1 percent decline in world oil production over the last 100 weeks - with steepening declines forecast? Furthermore, can our economy better deal with declining fuel inventories in an environment of persistent warming, or in an environment of declining average temperatures over the next several decades, the most likely, and the most serious, scenario given the highly reliable solar inertial motion (SIM) model forecasts of climate change?" Everyone is going to make their Kyoto targets whether they plan to or not, so we all need to let go of the Global Warming boogy-man. It does not matter, and it is foolish and arrogant to think that somehow humans can change the climate.