{"id":2956,"date":"2014-12-13T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T19:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2014-12-13T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T19:50:29","slug":"peak-oil-statements-arent-always-conclusive-peak-oil-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2956","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil: Statements Aren\u2019t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peak Oil: Statements Aren\u2019t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Lynch offered that comment early in a not surprisingly vague\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>article<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0arguing peak oil this past summer. [Not that vague is a new tactic for him. Five years ago,\u00a0Chris Nelder<\/span>\u00a0offered a concise\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>analysis<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Lynch\u2019s work, and not much appears to have changed]:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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With a background in political science, Lynch puts his rhetorical skills to work as an avid peak oil denier, despite seeming to live in an alternate universe when it comes to the actual data\u2026.<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nHe has carried on a vigorous disinformation campaign against peak oil theory for nearly two decades, sticking to his guns despite all factual evidence to the contrary.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For those allergic to facts and reality, it\u2019s easy to understand the consternation expressed by Lynch and his peers. Their antidote\u2014make pronouncements and assume they will serve as the last word\u2014is consistent with their avoid-evidence-at-all-costs approach to a subject with (I assume) unfortunate personal ramifications to their professional efforts.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt adding to their consternation is the fact that some of us poor souls still rely on facts and evidence and reality to make determinations on matters of importance, and \u201camazingly\u201d we believe that the concepts embraced under the peak oil umbrella are quite believable. We\u2019re willing to review evidence, of course. Without any, however, we remain singularly unimpressed with puffed-up statements which deniers are quick to offer without substantiation.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/span><\/p>\n

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Peak Oil: Statements Aren\u2019t Always Conclusive – Peak Oil Matters. Michael Lynch offered that comment early in a not surprisingly vague\u00a0article\u00a0arguing peak oil this past summer. [Not that vague is a new tactic for him. Five years ago,\u00a0Chris Nelder\u00a0offered a concise\u00a0analysis\u00a0of Lynch\u2019s work, and not much appears to have changed]: With a background in political […]<\/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":[1897,1648,1896,617,705],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-evidence","tag-facts","tag-michael-lynch","tag-peak-oil","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956","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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}