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Abiotic Oil and Global Cooling

There are two scientific debates picking up strength on the internet which the mainstream media seems scared to report. One--that over abiotic oil--has been one that I have posted about from time to time.

As a non scientist, I think that the evidence for peak oil, if oil is a fossil fuel, is robust and persuasive. I was very worried by it this time last year.

It could be that most oil on this planet is the consequence of fossil fuel, but that some is not. It could be that the petrochemical establishment in the west has been completely wrong for a hundred years about oil; they were about ether, for instance, and that didn't stop the discovery of radio. Now, we may have the beginnings of an evidence-based debate.

I hope I am wrong, and that we are not about to run out of energy because oil at viable prices is past peak flow. This site, were it to be shown to be based on proof, would suggest I am wrong.

Anaconda, who has left an interesting comment on an earlier piece of mine, appears on lots of the abiotic oil websites and his requirement is that scientists simply 'prove' how oil is a fossil fuel to him (I say him, though I do not know Anaconda's sex).

A second debate that you will not hear much about in the old-fashioned press is that around global cooling. I had a drink with a highly qualified atmospheric chemist today, who noted that temperatures around the world have not been rising since 1998. I also note that solar cycle 24 has still not started. I note the persuasive and clear arguments linking solar storms, sunspots, and cloud cover, as well as heat reaching earth, with global temperature. It may be that we are in for some global cooling, and that the political and scientific establishment has been absolutely wrong about what seems the leap-of-faith science built into carbon-based global warming.

Have a look at the links and theories. I am fascinated by this debate, since the science on either side does not seem to me to be either wild or crazy. As Anaconda has pointed out elsewhere on this blog, 'nature's truth is independent of man's desire'.

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Anonymous said…
A thoughful post.
6:40 am
Martin Meenagh said…
Many thanks
4:42 pm
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