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The International Energy Agency Says we will Reach the Point of No Return in 2017; in Just Five Years

By Bruce Melton PEEmissions Scenarios

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has returned a valuable yet frightening assessment of our current and future energy use and climate change. We have just five years to bring our energy sources into line with climate change mitigation scenarios or we default on our planet. Says the IEA: “On planned policies, rising fossil energy use…

November 9, 2011

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Burning Buried Sunshine 196,000 pounds of plants are required to produce a gallon of gasoline.

By Bruce Melton PEUncategorized

Burning Buried Sunshine 196,000 pounds of plants are required to produce a gallon of gasoline. It takes 40 acres of plants, roots, stalks and leaves, to go 20 miles in the average car. I ran across this paper in my archives from 2003 and the information is oh-so timely. It is just incredible how much…

May 15, 2010

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

The International Energy Agency Says we will Reach the Point of No Return in 2017; in Just Five Years

Burning Buried Sunshine 196,000 pounds of plants are required to produce a gallon of gasoline.

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