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'Unsustainable' atmoshphere by 2030. -
11-07-2005, 01:29 PM
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4414000.stm:deb06]Article[/url:deb06]
[quote:deb06]Global greenhouse gas emissions will rise by 52% by 2030, unless the world takes action to reduce energy consumption, a study has warned.
The prediction comes from the latest annual World Energy Outlook report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
It says that under current consumption trends, energy demand will also rise by more than 50% over the next 25 years.
The IEA adds that oil prices will "substantially" rise unless there is extra investment in oil facilities.
It says the world has seen "years of under-investment" in both oil production and the refinery sector.
The organisation estimates that the global oil industry now needs to invest $20.3 trillion (£12 trillion) in fresh facilities by 2030, or else the wider global economy could suffer.
'Unsustainable'
"These projected trends have important implications and lead to a future that is not sustainable," said IEA chief Claude Mandil.
"We must change these outcomes and get the planet onto a sustainable energy path."
The IEA's warning comes at a time when the Kyoto climate change agreement calls on developed nations to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to 5% below 1990 levels by 2008-12.
It also cautions that oil producers need to double annual investments in their oil fields or else see another £13 a barrel on the projected price of oil over the next 25 years.
Economic impact
The IEA says this extra investment is vital to avoid the supply bottlenecks that saw oil prices rise above $70 a barrel in late August.
"If investments do not come in a timely and sufficient manner, there will be higher oil prices, and global economic growth will suffer," said IEA chief economist Fatih Birol.
The IEA says the world has enough oil supplies to last until 2030, and that the core issue is instead the need to improve the supply chain.
Greenpeace said the latest figures from the IEA showed just how important it was for countries to meet their Kyoto targets.
"The Kyoto protocol doesn't amount to much in terms of emissions reductions but at least it breaks the curve [of rising emissions] among countries that have accepted its targets," said Steve Sawyer, climate policy expert at the environmental pressure group.
"We have to work out the trick of how to get the US and the rapidly industrialising developing countries to break the curve as well."
The IEA is made up of the 26 main industrialised nations who are the major oil consumers.[/quote:deb06]
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11-07-2005, 03:38 PM
[sarcasm]great. The future looks brighter and brighter everyday.[/sarcasm] oOo:
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11-07-2005, 04:34 PM
I burn as much gas as I can. I burn tires and pur antifreeze down gutters.
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11-08-2005, 10:48 AM
[quote="newt.":5842b]I burn as much gas as I can. I burn tires and pur antifreeze down gutters.[/quote:5842b]
Get deployed to Iraq and get shot fuckface.
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11-08-2005, 02:46 PM
This one neibor of mine had like tons and tons of tires and one morning he started burning them. Smelled so HORRIBLE and TONS and TONS of black smoke in the area you would think everything was catching on fire. (I live in the middle of nowhere not a town or city.). Such a Jackass.
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11-08-2005, 04:46 PM
skank chicks love it because of a quicker tan
ps...Bullshits on entire article.
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11-08-2005, 05:01 PM
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yea, we didnt pollute before Bush was in office. We may create 20% of the polution but what % of the worlds goods do we produce? |
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11-08-2005, 05:08 PM
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I highly doubt that in 24 years the earth will not be able to sustaine life on it. |
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11-08-2005, 05:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Sgt>Stackem":fbb86][quote=elstatec]what do you expect with such a jackass(bush) in power of one of the most polluting countries in the world(20% of the worlds pollution) failing to recognize that pollution effects the enviroment, putting money over saving the world.
[url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1248757.stm
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yea, we didnt pollute before Bush was in office. We may create 20% of the polution but what % of the worlds goods do we produce?[/quote:fbb86]
im not saying US didnt pollute before bush, im saying that the action to protecting the earth is now, with the kyoto Protocol now and bush not signing up to it.
And anyway many other countries produce just as much or even more goods for the world but have signed up to kyoto even if they dont have the strongest economy in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol
And you shouldnt be so ignorant about this, what good is '% of the worlds goods' when there is no world left to live in?
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11-08-2005, 05:15 PM
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I highly doubt that in 24 years the earth will not be able to sustaine life on it.
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Sorry where does it say in the article that earth will not be able to support life?
No where.
It refers to unsustainable as in nothing can be done about it and it will be irreversible even, that action then will not work |
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11-08-2005, 05:16 PM
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I highly doubt that in 24 years the earth will not be able to sustaine life on it.
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Sorry where does it say in the article that earth will not be able to support life?
No where.
It refers to unsustainable as in nothing can be done about it and it will be irreversible even, that action then will not work |
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Originally Posted by elstatec
And you shouldnt be so ignorant about this, what good is '% of the worlds goods' when there is no world left to live in?
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11-08-2005, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Nyck
I highly doubt that in 24 years the earth will not be able to sustaine life on it.
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Sorry where does it say in the article that earth will not be able to support life?
No where.
It refers to unsustainable as in nothing can be done about it and it will be irreversible even, that action then will not work |
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Originally Posted by elstatec
And you shouldnt be so ignorant about this, what good is '% of the worlds goods' when there is no world left to live in?
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I didnt say anything about in 23 years dumbass, you called bs on the article posted, I commented on the world going down the drain in the whole sense of pollution. Use your brain. |
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11-08-2005, 07:18 PM
Christians always seem to deny Global Warming.
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