Robert W. Endlich
[Preface: This post’s topics (Coal, Oil, Gas, Fracking, Nuclear, “End of Oil” Energy Stories, unusual hydrocarbon deposits, and some estimates of Petroleum Reserves) are broad reaching; it is difficult to encapsulate all such subjects in an internet post of this type. This is my ‘best effort,’ within these obvious constraints.]
INTRODUCTION
This post provides comments on the history and current state of world energy and concerns stated by climate alarmists regarding global warming.
The climate alarmists’ concerns about our use of fossil fuels as the source of “human-caused, CO2-fueled, global warming” begin with the Industrial Revolution, in the 19th Century. when coal use became widespread. Our ’Friends’ at the National Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, in their article’s lead paragraph, Global Warming 101, come right out and say it:
“Since the Industrial Revolution, the global annual temperature has increased in total by a little more than 1 degree Celsius, or about 2 degrees Fahrenheit.”
This NRDC statement is written as if temperature never changed before the Industrial Revolution. In this Continue reading “Comments on the History and Current State of World Energy”