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We can’t run out of fossil fuels.

In the 1970s, there were the ‘Oil Crises‘. Then, and at other times it has been suggested that one key reason for moving to renewables, is that as there is only a finite supply of fossil fuels which will come to an end one day. But when?

There is also a mistaken belief that ‘peak oil‘ projections are a result of supplies of fossil fuels becoming exhausted.

Whether you are worried oil supplies will run out, or are hoping oil supplies will run out, although prices may rise, they won’t run out. In fact, we can’t possibly use all fossil fuel.

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April 10, 2021

Environment & Climate: The race against natural climate change.

Environment & Climate: The race against natural climate change.

The climate is always changing.

The good news has been that Earth's surface went from molten rock to now supporting the bloom of visible life we see today as the Phanerozoic Eon, but the bad news is the bloom, and current wonderful conditions are just a brief moment, as the surface will naturally return to being too hot for any life to survive. Plus, as watching a volcano shows, things have cooled little inside Earth and while Earth currently has a relatively cool thin crust, relatively no thicker than an eggshell, it is still almost entirely a very hot planet.

Environment: We shouldn’t be cast as the bad guys.

Environment: We shouldn’t be cast as the bad guys.

And yes, environment and climate are always changing.

Even though we are creating quite a mess right now, realistically it's nature and natural environment and climate changes, not us humans, that will end all life one Earth. This look at the big picture of the history of environment and climate reveals while "Mother Earth" does seem quite nurturing right now, this planet is normally hostile to all life beyond "just slime" made up of microbes like those we kill we must kill to sterilize medical equipment. What we are enjoying is the equivalent of the brief bloom of life in the desert after rain.

Yes, our technology brings risks and may "poke the bear", but without technology, when that "grizzly bear of natural climate change" wakes from its current short hibernation, we, and the species we cherish could perish. Following "the flip" not just us but all other complex life and even the microbes, eventually are doomed. For us humans, the threat is real and immediate.

Or is it that, natural changes to climate, like "bears", are part of nature and nature would never harm us?

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Did Al Gore nail it: Is climate change merely inconvenient, or is it an existential threat?

Did Al Gore nail it: Is climate change merely inconvenient, or is it an existential threat?

Claims that +1.5oC warming would be 'catastrophic', and that climate change represents an 'existential threat' can be quite vague as just what is 'catastrophic' or an 'existential threat'? This webpaper, seeks to translate 'catastrophic' outcomes and 'existential threats' into more concrete outcomes. "We recognise climate change is a serious problem and are committed to net zero by 2050 in order to prevent the disastrous consequences anticipated to occur by around 2026" Typical government position: Is it ok?
Climate is only 1 of 9 planetary boundaries for the path to our rare opportunity.

Climate is only 1 of 9 planetary boundaries for the path to our rare opportunity.

Despite the common assumption that Earth always will and always has been able to support human life, we live on planet with a dying biosphere that only will soon end this current brief period of naturally support for complex life. Our rare, if not unique, opportunity is to use the window rather than prematurely close it. Assuming climate change is an existential threat and not merely an inconvenience, but CO2 emissions are only 1 of 9 planetary boundaries that must be observed in the to keep the window open. The dawn of the Anthropocene puts risks not only long-term CO2 balance, but the challenge of working within all planetary boundaries and respect that, growth within a shrinking biosphere will from now be a restraint for the rest of the our age of one finite planet, and until we can seize the opportunity to become multi planet to this one currently dying planet and before it's too late.
Webpapers
V2G, V2H, V2L, bi-directional EV / EV-Hybrid charging: Solar or not, it changes energy bills!

V2G, V2H, V2L, bi-directional EV / EV-Hybrid charging: Solar or not, it changes energy bills!

Natural Climate Change: Surprises from Nature!

Natural Climate Change: Surprises from Nature!

2023: On all paths, disruption is imminent & proactive beats reactive.

2023: On all paths, disruption is imminent & proactive beats reactive.

Decades long EV transition with no green quick fix.

Decades long EV transition with no green quick fix.

We can’t run out of fossil fuels.

We can’t run out of fossil fuels.

Righteous environmentalism: an opium for the people concerned about climate.

Righteous environmentalism: an opium for the people concerned about climate.

Cost of coal power vs renewables: China expanding coal while the suckers go green?

Cost of coal power vs renewables: China expanding coal while the suckers go green?

Carbon Capture and Storage works for e-Fuels but not for fossil fuels or ‘blue hydrogen’.

Carbon Capture and Storage works for e-Fuels but not for fossil fuels or ‘blue hydrogen’.

Base load Solar and Wind: Renewables alone not a substitute for fossil fuels.

Base load Solar and Wind: Renewables alone not a substitute for fossil fuels.

COP26: Were The Deck Chairs Sufficiently Shuffled?

COP26: Were The Deck Chairs Sufficiently Shuffled?

COP27: Climate change action sabotage?

COP27: Climate change action sabotage?

Big Oil, AKA Big Fossil: How real, and what about ‘big climate’?

Big Oil, AKA Big Fossil: How real, and what about ‘big climate’?

The Power struggle in Australia.

The Power struggle in Australia.

Why Hydrogen Cars are not the future, and EVs are here to stay.

Why Hydrogen Cars are not the future, and EVs are here to stay.

New York, Sweden and the case for herd immunity.

New York, Sweden and the case for herd immunity.

Covid-19 Immunity: Layers, immunity from vaccination vs infection, and the good news.

Covid-19 Immunity: Layers, immunity from vaccination vs infection, and the good news.

The electrical grid, V2G and EV Home Charging: Missing an opportunity for the planet.

The electrical grid, V2G and EV Home Charging: Missing an opportunity for the planet.

Vaccines are an Experiment: With People As Guinea Pigs?

Obama and Xi Jinping announcement: a huge step for climate action? Or a backward step?

The G20 outcome, a plan to make the earth a worse place?

The Housing Price Trap: A global bubble?

My Body My Choice: Polarization and Outrage, But Who Is Pulling The Strings?

Omicron Variant: For Better or For Worse?

Omicron Alert, Or Already Time For Alarm?

Omicron Alert, Or Already Time For Alarm?

Omicron Doom, But Australia Parties & Experiments: December 2021 snapshot.

Omicron Doom, But Australia Parties & Experiments: December 2021 snapshot.

From Covid-Zero to Worlds Worst Outbreak? Tracking Omicron, and The Australian ‘Pandemic-Over’  Experiment.

From Covid-Zero to Worlds Worst Outbreak? Tracking Omicron, and The Australian ‘Pandemic-Over’ Experiment.

Overpopulation solutions? See it as a ratio, not a number.

Overpopulation solutions? See it as a ratio, not a number.

Covid-19 & Vaccination Deaths: Statistically, Coincidences will distort reported deaths.

Covid-19 & Vaccination Deaths: Statistically, Coincidences will distort reported deaths.

Vaccine Safety & Efficacy: As claimed?

Vaccine Safety & Efficacy: As claimed?

Covid-19 Aug 2021: Almost over, or still a serious threat?

Coronavirus: Facts, Myths and Surprises (March 20th 2020)

Covid-19 Cases Numbers: Not what we are told

Ignore Covid-19 Fake News: Conscience Is The Main Reason To Avoid Infection.

Ignore Covid-19 Fake News: Conscience Is The Main Reason To Avoid Infection.

Djokovic: Rescued from PR Disaster By Australian Leader “Scotty from Marketing” Morrison!

Djokovic: Rescued from PR Disaster By Australian Leader “Scotty from Marketing” Morrison!

Covid-19 is NOT ‘binary’: Severity is as Variable as with a Car Crash.

Covid-19 is NOT ‘binary’: Severity is as Variable as with a Car Crash.

Industrial/Growth Age vs Information/Eco Age

The population ‘catch 22’

Australia in the Pandemic: Eye of the storm?

Will An Actual Vaccination Conspiracy In Australia Backfire Internationally?

Vaccines: yes, some stories are too good to be true.

Mid 2021: Eliminate it? Or ‘Live With’ Covid-19 and what follows?

ScoMo Ingenious EV Plan: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, leading climate action blocker, stretching the truth again?

ScoMo Ingenious EV Plan: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, leading climate action blocker, stretching the truth again?

Methane: Can A ‘Green’ Agenda Derail Climate Action?

Methane: Can A ‘Green’ Agenda Derail Climate Action?

The Curve: The basics of a Pandemic

Hydrogen Future or Fool’s Gold & Scams: “Where does the hydrogen come from?”

Hydrogen Future or Fool’s Gold & Scams: “Where does the hydrogen come from?”

Vaccinations and Spread: The Dangerous Myth That Vaccinated People Don’t Spread Covid-19

Coffee: How many cups a day is ok, or even beneficial?

If the earth is overpopulated, so what?

If the earth is overpopulated, so what?

July 2021: Vaccines or Not, Its Not Over Yet.

Covid-19 Endgames & Exiting Lockdowns

China Virus, or USA Virus?

China Virus, or USA Virus?

Wet Market? Weapon? Laboratory? Where and When DID Covid-19 start?

‘Sustainable energy’: what is it? What are the actual sources of energy?

Covid-19 in 2021: Threat of Dangerous Assumptions.

Covid-19 in 2021: Threat of Dangerous Assumptions.

Covid-19 Vaccine Myths

Environmental Damage: The Overpopulation Indicator

Environmental Damage: The Overpopulation Indicator

Vaccines: Another Covid-19 Mistake, plus > 5,000 deaths

Do we NEED another Meteor?

Sport and the Precarious Australian Open

Sport and the Precarious Australian Open

‘99 Percent’ of Virus Cases Are ‘Totally Harmless’?

‘99 Percent’ of Virus Cases Are ‘Totally Harmless’?

Covid-19 has a unique ability to bypass Vaccines?

Coivd-19 Lessons from New Zealand

From Masks, Parties and Isolation to Vaccines: Compliance, Coercion, Enforcement, Screw Ups + Sabotage

Vaccines, Reality, and Russia

Covid-19 Complacency: Why?

Covid-19 Complacency: Why?

Track & Trace App: Government Folly?

Herd Immunity vs Eradication Vs Containment Vs Suppression

Herd Immunity vs Eradication Vs Containment Vs Suppression

Covid-19 & Australia: Lucky Country?

Covid-19 & Australia: Lucky Country?

Covid Australia II: Luck Running out ?

Covid Australia II: Luck Running out ?

Covid-19 Goals: What level of Containment?

Curve Confusion: 1918 ‘flu’ to cause deaths in 2020?

Earth, The Sun and CO2: What really determines our climate?

Earth, The Sun and CO2: What really determines our climate?

Remdesivir: how does it change things?

What is the real cost/risk generated by ‘Climate Catastrophe’?

Climate change: anthropogenic climate change is not 100% certain, just highly likely. How likely is our is our ability to stop it?

Planets, Aliens and Fermi Paradox: Climate or Photons?

Planets, Aliens and Fermi Paradox: Climate or Photons?

The 2nd inconvenient truth: one of six hurdles for sceptics to accept climate change.

The 2nd inconvenient truth: one of six hurdles for sceptics to accept climate change.