Climate Quote by Peter Lesley

A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as the oil…

— Michael Kumhof

A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have…

— William J. Clinton

The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The…

— David Deming

Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few…

— Amory Lovins

Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of…

— James R. Schlesinger

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite…

— James Dwight Dana

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning…

— Lester R. Brown

It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or…

— M. King Hubbert

“Light. Space. Light and space without time, I think, for this is a country with only the slightest traces of human history. In the…

— Edward Abbey

The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial…

— William Morris Davis

There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the…

— Fatih Birol

“Yet oil had already become so essential to modern life that in 1873 the Titusville Morning Herald proclaimed: "The production of petroleum has now…

— Jane Brox