Who is working on peak oil and climate change?
The number of people who have analyzed whether there are sufficient hydrocarbons to produce the scenarios in the IPCC reports is small but growing. This will undoubtedly change as more scientists and engineers learn about peak oil. Hansen is weighing in and his revised report was submitted for publication in July of this year to the Geophysical Research Letters (http://www.agu.org/journals/gl). You will find the complete report here: Implications of “Peak Oil” for Atmospheric CO2 and Climate (336KB pdf) Hansen and Kharecha, July 2007 Jean Laherrere was apparently the first to bring up peak oil in relation to climate change. Richard Heinberg pulls together some conclusions as he tackles peaking coal production in these pieces from March 2007 and again in November 2007: Burning the Furniture Big Melt Meets Big Empty Professor Rutledge, Chair for the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech, seems to have done the most thorough analysis so far. A video and slide presentation
