Monday, May 09, 2005
Hot Decades to Follow
Michael Klare dances around the issue of "peak oil" while focusing instead on the political and military implications of the disputed amount of remaining energy.
Predictions that global oil output will peak between now and 2025, far short of the DoE's projections, are highly controversial. This is not the place to consider clashing assessments in detail.Understandably he wishes to contrain the focus of his piece but the facts that follow all support the gloomiest of predictions.