Conventional oil supplies will remain tight in the years ahead.New discoveries will not suffice.World crude-oil production nearly tripled in 1960-73 (from 21 million barrels a day to 56 million), but has grown a mere ...Conventional oil supplies will remain tight in the years ahead.New discoveries will not suffice.World crude-oil production nearly tripled in 1960-73 (from 21 million barrels a day to 56 million), but has grown a mere 30% since then, to around 73 million barrels per day in 2006. In fact,Persian Gulf crude-oil production stopped growing entirely after 1974,展开更多
Conventional oil supplies will remain tight in the years ahead.New discoveries will not suffice.World crude-oil production nearly tripled in 1960-73 (from 21 million barrels a day to 56 million), but has grown a mere ...Conventional oil supplies will remain tight in the years ahead.New discoveries will not suffice.World crude-oil production nearly tripled in 1960-73 (from 21 million barrels a day to 56 million), but has grown a mere 30% since then, to around 73 million barrels per day in 2006. In fact,Persian Gulf crude-oil production stopped growing entirely after 1974,展开更多
The world set a goal in the Paris Agreement:to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius of preindustrial levels.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explained why this is a valid goal.If global warm...The world set a goal in the Paris Agreement:to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius of preindustrial levels.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explained why this is a valid goal.If global warming were to go higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius,this would jeopardize life on the planet with a potential multi-meter sea-level rise,the collapse of critical ecosystems,and the release of methane from thawing permafrost,possibly triggering runaway warming.Yet the world's current trajectory implies a catastrophic 2.7-degree-Celsius increase in global temperature.展开更多
文摘Conventional oil supplies will remain tight in the years ahead.New discoveries will not suffice.World crude-oil production nearly tripled in 1960-73 (from 21 million barrels a day to 56 million), but has grown a mere 30% since then, to around 73 million barrels per day in 2006. In fact,Persian Gulf crude-oil production stopped growing entirely after 1974,
文摘Conventional oil supplies will remain tight in the years ahead.New discoveries will not suffice.World crude-oil production nearly tripled in 1960-73 (from 21 million barrels a day to 56 million), but has grown a mere 30% since then, to around 73 million barrels per day in 2006. In fact,Persian Gulf crude-oil production stopped growing entirely after 1974,
文摘The world set a goal in the Paris Agreement:to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius of preindustrial levels.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explained why this is a valid goal.If global warming were to go higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius,this would jeopardize life on the planet with a potential multi-meter sea-level rise,the collapse of critical ecosystems,and the release of methane from thawing permafrost,possibly triggering runaway warming.Yet the world's current trajectory implies a catastrophic 2.7-degree-Celsius increase in global temperature.
