Comments on: Favourite peak oil quote of the week http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/ hopping along the corridors of power Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:07:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: katie http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51370 katie Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:06:08 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51370 Don't forget the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. There's even a genre of Graphic Novels riffing on the Book of Revelation these days. Who knew the Bible could spawn great comic book art? Beats Buffy re-runs! Much more fun than looking for plagues of locusts, hurricanes, floods, wars, pestilence ... no, wait, we've seen those happen haven't we? Some of the above, even in Australia! err, glad I don't believe the Bible literally :-D Don’t forget the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
There’s even a genre of Graphic Novels riffing on the Book of Revelation these days. Who knew the Bible could spawn great comic book art? Beats Buffy re-runs!

Much more fun than looking for plagues of locusts, hurricanes, floods, wars, pestilence … no, wait, we’ve seen those happen haven’t we? Some of the above, even in Australia!

err, glad I don’t believe the Bible literally :-D

]]> By: phil u http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51325 phil u Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:39:30 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51325 here is an on-the-money climate-change prediction..from 1958.. http://whoar.co.nz/2008/video-global-warming-predictions-were-right-on-in-1958/ phil(whoar.co.nz) here is an on-the-money climate-change prediction..from 1958..

http://whoar.co.nz/2008/video-global-warming-predictions-were-right-on -in-1958/

phil(whoar.co.nz)

]]> By: Trevor29 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51323 Trevor29 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:22:10 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51323 didn't He also say that it would be fire next time? Fire = global warming didn’t He also say that it would be fire next time? Fire = global warming

]]> By: stuey http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51319 stuey Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:02:22 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51319 as an argument that has got to be on a par with Garth George's reasoning that sea level rise and global warming can't be true because God told us after the flood that he would never flood us again and would give us the rainbow as a symbol of that as an argument that has got to be on a par with Garth George’s reasoning that sea level rise and global warming can’t be true because God told us after the flood that he would never flood us again and would give us the rainbow as a symbol of that

]]> By: kahikatea http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51287 kahikatea Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:25:25 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51287 The idea has been around for some time, but the Russians don't seem to get as much extra oil appearing in their oilfields as you would expect if this theory were true. And it also conflicts with the widely observed fact that you never find oil more than 1.5 km below the surface, and the fact that the temperatures that are generally thought to exist that deep are too high for oil to survive - it gets turned into natural gas. Most likely the new oil appearing in Russian oilfields, which inspired this theory, is actually oil that seeped horizontally inwards from the edges of the oil field in response to the pressure drop caused by the extraction of the original oil. Western oil companies have known for decades that this happens, and have mathematical models to take it into account. The idea has been around for some time, but the Russians don’t seem to get as much extra oil appearing in their oilfields as you would expect if this theory were true. And it also conflicts with the widely observed fact that you never find oil more than 1.5 km below the surface, and the fact that the temperatures that are generally thought to exist that deep are too high for oil to survive - it gets turned into natural gas.

Most likely the new oil appearing in Russian oilfields, which inspired this theory, is actually oil that seeped horizontally inwards from the edges of the oil field in response to the pressure drop caused by the extraction of the original oil. Western oil companies have known for decades that this happens, and have mathematical models to take it into account.

]]> By: jh http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51275 jh Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:40:26 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51275 Yes. Yes.

]]> By: frog http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51273 frog Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:36:56 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51273 Really jh, a letter criticising the Greens? Really jh, a letter criticising the Greens?

]]> By: jh http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51272 jh Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:21:12 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/07/31/favourite-peak-oil-quote-of-the-week/#comment-51272 There was a letter in the press yesterday criticizing the Greens for being anti hydro pro immigration and having no population policy. There was a letter in the press yesterday criticizing the Greens for being anti hydro pro immigration and having no population policy.

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