Plantagenet wrote:AdamB wrote:"the faithful", is a good way to describe what is required of acolytes. Funny how all of this was discovered and known long ago, and yet, the "faithful" are only required to believe....no thinking required.
http://peakoildebunked.blogspot.com/200 ... igion.html
You are remarkably ignorant.
Peak Oil is not a religion. Peak Oil is a scientific hypothesis, originally formulated by M. King Hubbert.
OilPrice.com wrote:Peak oil is a religion. And like most religions, the majority of followers do not have a clear understanding of exactly what it is they are supposed to believe. They only know that they believe it, and they are right, dad-blame-it! Meanwhile, the world keeps turning.
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Wh ... sider.html
Plantagenet wrote:Yes, some of Dr. Hubbert's predictions have not occurred. However, the overall hypothesis remains valid, i.e. that at some time global oil production will reach a peak and then decline.
Plantagenet wrote:I think we'll eventually see that prediction validated.
Cheers!
ennui2 wrote:Oil depletion will be validated.
ennui2 wrote: The simplicity of Hubbert's perfectly smooth and symmetrical bell-curve as applied to global scale won't be.
Few people here understand the devil's in the details.
ralfy wrote:Most people worldwide earn less than ten dollars a day and lack one or more basic needs, including education, health care, and shelter. That means for most of the world population the sky fell some time ago.
pstarr wrote:As long as most people fail misunderstand what science is about, there will be little chance for human progress.
pstarr wrote:Or to avoid the oncoming tragedy of peak oil. Some people need to stop lecturing and listen and read.
ROCKMAN wrote:Hubbert did not make such a prediction.
pstarr wrote:You two are twins of misdirection. I say one thing, and Adam responds with something onlooker said who-knows-when? Rockman makes a simple obvious correction (Hubbert's long tail) and you ennui go off on world religions?
This is like debating a bad AI program. All nonsense with a fancy dictionary.
AdamB wrote:
Peak oil isn't a religion? Well...opinions vary.
Revi wrote:Whatever. Peak oil is not dead, just because we all made predictions that didn't happen on schedule.
revi wrote: We have a problem that is not going away.
revi wrote: If we had switched to a less intensive lifestyle as a country we wouldn't have the problems with debt and pollution we are experiencing now. Woulda, coulda, shoulda... I have a feeling that peak oil will be back with a vengeance soon enough.
Plantagenet wrote:AdamB wrote:
Peak oil isn't a religion? Well...opinions vary.
For heaven's sake. Why are you wasting everyone's time with this drivel?
Plantagenet wrote:Opinions vary on everything. Nonetheless, it is obvious to anyone with a brain that the peak oil theory is a scientific hypothesis promulgated by a Ph.D. scientist in a series of monographs and refereed scientific publications.
Plantagenet wrote:Yes, you can find various examples on the internet of people saying peak oil is religion, but almost without exception these are not meant to be taken literally but are instead rhetorical statements intended to ridicule both the idea of peak oil and its proponents.
Cheers!
ROCKMAN wrote:So again: why argue about the date of any event if that event is of little or no importance?
ROCKMAN wrote: But the problem isn't with the "peak oil hypothesis" because it isn't an hypothesis but an absolute fact: there will come a day when the world will never produce more oil (or NG, or coal, or watermelons, or etc). The hypothesis is the speculated date of any such peak.
Rockman wrote:And then there's the other good reason (besides the possibility of being wrong and hurting my esteemness): the date doesn't make any eaningful difference to what matters to all of us.
Rockman wrote:Maybe in 50 to 100 years we can look back and be completely certain that the final single PO date was June, 19XX. And the price of oil that date? IMHO it could just as easily be $40/bbl or $100/bbl. And the global economy might be booming or crashing on that date.
Rockman wrote:So again: why argue about the date of any event if that event is of little or no importance?
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