The Myth of “Saudi America”
Straight talk from geologists about our new era of oil abundance.
By Raymond T. Pierrehumbert|Posted Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013
http://www.slate.com/articles/
Like swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, every December some
20,000 geoscientists flock to San Francisco for the fall meeting of the
American Geophysical Union. Slate readers have already heard about a presentation with a particularly eye-catching title,
but for me some of the most thought-provoking news came in a
prestigious all-Union session with the rather dry heading “Fossil Fuel
Production, Economic Growth, and Climate Change.” (Search for it here.)
This session dealt, in a hard-headed, geological, show-me-the-numbers
way, with the claim that we are at the brink of a new era of oil and
natural gas abundance.
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