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Peak Oil Predictions

Peak Oil Predictions – Only 50 Years Left!?

Welcome to part 2… As you will recall, part 1 was a resurrected blog post from 2010.  Back in 2010, it looked like there was only 50 years of oil left for the entire world to use.  That was before the recent “boom” in U.S. oil production from the fracking of oil-containing shale rock.  How has this boom changed peak oil predictions?  Keep on reading to find out. Some important questions we came up with last time… What the heck is “fracking” anyhow? What does the increase in U.S. production mean for the future of oil? How does Saudi Arabia… Read More »Peak Oil Predictions – Only 50 Years Left!?

Peak Oil – Only 50 Years of Oil Left!

According to a great blogging site I follow, it’s a good idea to update and recycle old posts around the holidays.  So it dawned on me that I had a little gold mine stashed away in the form of an old blog I had a few years ago dealing with energy and climate.  So here are two oldies, but goodies from March of 2011.  Much has changed, but not really… The End of Oil (is closer than you think) I recently looked at an interesting slide-show on CNBC.com about the world’s 15 biggest oil producers.  They use the November 2010 production data… Read More »Peak Oil – Only 50 Years of Oil Left!

The Top Five Climate Change Blogs

The Top Five Climate Change Blogs

(Image provided by ChristmasStockImages.com) Howdy Folks, I trust you are preparing for a wonderful holiday season.  The Doc will be on vacation visiting family at an undisclosed mountain hideout along the Rocky Mountain Front Range.  A place where it often snows this time of year (with any luck!). Before I go I will put The Climate Advisor on autopilot.  It should spit out a few posts over the holidays to keep you amused. But before I do that, I thought I’d share a few of my favorite climate blogs with you.  Some are oldies but goodies, and some I have recently… Read More »The Top Five Climate Change Blogs

More About Bats and Ebola…

A great article was recently published in the scientific literature called “Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa” by David Pigott and others.  This study used fancy mapping technology called geographic information systems (GIS), to map the concentration of the three species of bats known carry Ebola (check out our earlier post about bats).  The bat map is combined with a map of human populations to show the places of greatest risk.  The top part of the map shows the number of people at risk.  The Democratic Republic of the Congo has the most, with 11.7 million people.  The grey box… Read More »More About Bats and Ebola…

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Ozone and Climate Change: The deadly truth

Ever seen a thick layer of haze hanging over a city in the summer?  That’s ozone.  I remember years back, mountain biking in the summer heat at South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona. I would ride up the mountain until I was eye level with the layer of blue haze.  I used to think, “This can’t be good.”  Maybe that’s why old Doc Goodwell gets a little wheeze every now and again.  Who knows. Anyhow, the recent proposed change in the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation governing ozone has brought it back into the spotlight.  The EPA wants to lower the maximum amount of ground… Read More »Ozone and Climate Change: The deadly truth