{"id":2470,"date":"2014-12-05T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2014-12-05T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:49:41","slug":"peak-oil-what-does-any-of-this-mean-peak-oil-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2470","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil: What Does Any Of This Mean? &#8211; Peak Oil Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peakoilmatters.com\/2014\/12\/02\/peak-oil-what-does-any-mean\/\">Peak Oil: What Does Any Of This Mean? &#8211; Peak Oil Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Daniel Yergin\u2019s<\/span><\/em><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0Pulitzer Prize<\/span>\u00a0(for his book\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Quest<\/span>) has earned him a fair amount of street cred, judging by how often his opinions are solicited on the state of fossil fuel supply and production. I haven\u2019t read the book, but I\u2019d be lying if I said that anyone worthy of a Pulitzer Prize doesn\u2019t merit a measure of respect regardless of what one thinks of her or his opinions or ideologies.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><span id=\"more-7919\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">When Cornucopians have run out of the few partial- or pseudo-facts they rely upon as the foundation for the magnificent spin they place on finite resources and reality, after a while the lines blur between plausible and \u201chuh?\u201d It would appear that major literary rewards does not make one immune to that assessment, nor elevate them to a position where they are not obliged to resort to the same puffery and light-on-facts commentary so prevalent in our public discourse on peak oil and climate change, among other issues of considerable impact.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">Earlier this year, we were treated to the observations below by Mr. Yergin in an<\/em><a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1d5f83;\" title=\"interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/insights\/energy_resources_materials\/daniel_yergin_on_the_next_energy_revolution\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">interview<\/span><\/a><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0conducted by\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800080;\">McKinsey<\/span>. My comments follow in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">[ ]<\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">To his credit\u2014and at least from my observations in reading a dozen or so articles of his over the past few years\u2014he does have a broader perspective on how we must meet our energy needs in the future.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><em style=\"font-style: italic;\">But like too many of his peers, the unwillingness to address not just specifics, but acknowledge the limitations and legitimate concerns of fossil fuel production (which he must certainly understand) winds up doing more of a disservice to the public than anything else. If presumed experts are telling only part of the story, what\u2019s the point?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 10px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peak Oil: What Does Any Of This Mean? &#8211; Peak Oil Matters. Daniel Yergin\u2019s\u00a0Pulitzer Prize\u00a0(for his book\u00a0The Quest) has earned him a fair amount of street cred, judging by how often his opinions are solicited on the state of fossil fuel supply and production. I haven\u2019t read the book, but I\u2019d be lying if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1646,1648,1647,485,669],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-daniel-yergin","tag-facts","tag-finite-resources","tag-limits-to-growth","tag-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}