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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 15, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ summary in one 16 min video ] </i><br>
<b>Wrapping up COP26 with Professor Kevin Anderson</b><br>
Nov 14, 2021<br>
Nick Breeze ClimateGENN<br>
"...the very weak pointers that are in there are completely out of
sync with the scale of the challenge that we are committed to!"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIZlZRJ8KIs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIZlZRJ8KIs</a>
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<i>[ History of Britain -- King Kanute left us a great lesson ]</i><br>
<b>King Canute and the tide</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide</a><br>
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<i>[ 40 min video interview with Greta Thunberg "winning slowly is
the same as losing" ] </i><br>
<b>We need to talk about Honesty | with Greta Thunberg</b><br>
Nov 14, 2021<br>
thejuicemedia<br>
Juice Podcast 26: In which I chat with Greta Thunberg about the
importance of honesty in the fight for real climate action; her
experience of COP26; and other important issues - like how much she
loves the Honest Government Ads <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MibVpT2XUb4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MibVpT2XUb4</a><br>
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[ add 100 new inundation tides per year to your tide schedule --
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<b>Barely a cloud in the sky and Portland, Maine is flooding</b><br>
Nov 14, 2021<br>
Read the Full Transcript<br>
<b>Hari Sreenivasan:</b><br>
As sea ice melts and global oceans warm, sea levels are rising,
presenting grave threats to small, low-lying island nations and to
coastal areas here in the U.S. One example is in the Gulf of Maine:
the ocean waters that stretch from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia.<br>
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It is one of the fastest-warming bodies of saltwater on earth.<br>
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Here in Portland, the gulf of Maine sea levels are expected to rise
between 10 and 17 inches by the year 2030 compared to levels in
2000. NewsHour Weekend's Christopher Booker explored what that means
for this coastal city of Portland, and new efforts to study and
adapt to the changing climate. This story is part of our ongoing
series, 'Peril and Promise: the Challenge of Climate Change.'<br>
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<b>Christopher Booker:</b><br>
It's difficult to balance the contradiction that is this Friday
afternoon in Portland, Maine.November, 48 degrees, light wind and
barely a cloud in the sky, but despite a fall day that is as good as
they come, the old Port is flooding. In the past, Portland might see
a King Tide breach its streets only a handful of times. Part of the
natural tidal cycle, these extra high tides coming during full or
new moons fall and spring, when the moon is closest to the Earth and
its elliptical orbit, but as the world warms and sea levels continue
to rise, water will be coming to Portland's streets with far greater
regularity. Models indicate that within the near future, high tides
will breach city streets as many as 100 times a year.<br>
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<b>Gayle Bowness:</b><br>
and this is an 11 and a half foot tide. We're going to see much,
much more than that in the very near future, and it's going to be
happening much more frequently.<br>
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<b>Christopher Booker:</b><br>
Gayle Bowness is the Manager of the Municipal Climate Action Program
with Portland's Gulf of Maine Research Institute. On this day, she
helped lead a procession of local residents from the institute for a
quick glimpse of the city's future. The journey was simple enough,
walk a few blocks, turn onto one of Portland's many piers and there,
on the street is the day's King Tide.<br>
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<b>Gayle Bowness:</b><br>
So in Portland, we've seen our tidal levels raise eight inches over
the past one hundred years, so it's a pretty gradual raise that rate
of rises to steeply increase due to climate change. We'll see What
we saw today happen more frequently in 20 30, so it might happen
every month as opposed to just the fall in the spring season.
Everything's coming up, not just our high water seasons.<br>
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<b>Gayle Bowness:</b><br>
"We are going to see events like this happening 100 times a year
instead of ten.<br>
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<b>David Reidmiller:</b><br>
Getting people to think about climate change in their own
communities can be really difficult because climate change can feel
like, you know, a distant or far removed issue, whether in space or
in time.<br>
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<b>Christopher Booker:</b><br>
David Reidmiller is the director of the Climate Center with the
institute. Encouraging those in attendance to take photos and post
to social media as well as an online database tracking seal level
rise, Reidimiller says the hope is after witnessing the flooding
first hand, residents well begin to drive the conversation.<br>
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<b>David Reidmiller:</b><br>
When people can see how this is actually manifesting in their day to
day life. They can then go to City Council hearings. They can then
start writing letters to their senators. They can start calling
their representatives, it's really important that people get engaged
in it and understand how it affects them, because at once you have
an understanding of how it's going to affect you, you're going to be
compelled to act and that's exactly what we're trying.<br>
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<b>Christopher Booker:</b><br>
It is striking when you think about the distant projections of
Arctic ice melts, sea level rise in places like the Maldives versus
walking down your street and seeing a noontime king tide flood.<br>
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<b>David Reidmiller:</b><br>
Yeah. You know what? What happens in one place in the world really
echoes across the globe. And you know, I think we need to to to
listen to one another, to learn from one another. You know, the
experience that the Maldivians are going to have, that the Fijians,
the Samoans, all of these places are really dealing with similar
issues that we have. You know, we're fortunate in one sense, though,
that we live in America. We have the resources to deal with a lot of
these issues. You know, a lot of these developing countries don't
have that ability.<br>
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<b>Christopher Booker:</b><br>
Before joining the Institute, Reidmiller worked as a top science
advisor for the Obama administration, playing an integral role in
negotiating the 2016 Paris Climate Accords. Next, he served in the
Trump Administration leading the fourth national climate assessment,
a Congressionally-mandated report that's an authoritative assessment
of climate science and the impacts on the U-S. Then he came to the
Gulf of Maine Research Institute to lead the Climate Center and help
study how rising and warmer waters will change the Gulf's ecosystem,
economy, and consequently, its culture.<br>
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<b>Christopher Booker:</b><br>
What is the Gulf of Maine telling us about climate change?<br>
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<b>David Reidmiller:</b><br>
There's a lot of things happening right in our backyard. As we talk
about, we've got a living laboratory right here and so one of the
biggest things that's happening is that the Gulf of Maine is warming
faster than probably about 95% of the world's oceans. Arguably the
biggest and most climate-driven piece of this is that the Gulf
Stream is changing. The Gulf Stream, you can think about it as a
garden hose, right? That's really right now kind of it at full blast
and bringing a whole bunch of heat from the tropics up to the North
Atlantic, but as climate change unfolds, that Gulf Stream, you're
kind of twisting the dial on that hose from a jet into a shower and
so what happens then is you have some spill over of that heat and
that warm water into the Gulf of Maine.<br>
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<b>Christopher Booker:</b><br>
What does this portend for the immediate future?<br>
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<b>David Reidmiller:</b><br>
You know, we're seeing a lot of species shifts underway. You know,
this whole waterfront, this whole coastal community, so much of it
is driven by what we can commercially harvest and grow with
sustainable aquaculture in these waters. And we need to be prepared
for and understand what changes are underway in the ecosystem out
there.<br>
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<b>Christopher Booker:</b><br>
And these changes are happening, not in 30 or 50 years, but right
now and Reidmillier says its crucially important that all of
Portland understands this.<br>
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<b>David Reidmiller:</b><br>
And so we need to engage directly not only with the municipal
leaders, but the residents, the fishermen, the local business
leaders and present them with, frankly, information that they might
not want to hear. We don't do science for science's sake, right? We
do user-driven science. We know what the cause is. We know what the
solutions are. And now it's just a matter of mustering the political
will to actually make it happen.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/barely-a-cloud-in-the-sky-and-portland-maine-is-flooding">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/barely-a-cloud-in-the-sky-and-portland-maine-is-flooding</a><br>
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<i>[ a Saint for global warming? Nov. 29, 1979, Pope John Paul II
issued a papal bull that declared St. Francis of Assisi the patron
of ecology and of those who promote ecology...John Paul II
mentioned too the "Canticle of the Creatures," Francis' famous
prayer poem that is one of the cornerstones of Franciscan
spirituality. ] </i><br>
<b>Official launch of Laudato Si' Action Platform offers Catholics
concrete steps toward sustainable lifestyles</b><br>
Nov 14, 2021<br>
by Brian Roewe <br>
The long-anticipated Laudato Si' Action Platform officially launched
Nov. 14, paving the way for any Catholic institution, large or
small, across the globe to enroll in a multi-year, Vatican-backed
process toward sustainability in the spirit of Pope Francis'
landmark encyclical on care for creation.<br>
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Already, more than 4,000 church organizations and bodies — including
the Jesuits and the Salesian Sisters, the Pontifical Gregorian
University and 80 Catholic colleges worldwide, the California
bishops' conference and upwards of 1,000 families — have committed
to the ambitious initiative to put integral ecology into practice in
their lives and work.<br>
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The Vatican hopes that number will only grow in coming months as the
start of a full-fledged response from the Catholic Church to turn
the pope's prophetic words in his 2015 encyclical, "Laudato Si', on
Care for Our Common Home," into actions that can help stave off
catastrophic global warming.<br>
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Action steps include using renewable energy, reducing consumption of
meat and single-use items; fostering ecological education and
spirituality; advocating for sustainable development; and following
ethical investment guidelines, including divestment from fossil
fuels.<br>
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After the angelus prayer Sunday, Francis told the crowd in St.
Peter's Square that registration had opened for the Laudato Si'
Action Platform, saying "I invite all people of good will to
exercise active citizenship for the care of the common home."<br>
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In a May video encouraging Catholics to join the action platform,
the pope said there was a need for "a new ecological approach, which
transforms our way of living in the world, our lifestyles, our
relationship with the Earth's resources, and in general, the way we
look at people and live our life."...<br>
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The Laudato Si' Action Platform's launch coming on the heels of
COP26 sends a symbolic message that the global church is ready to do
its part to take action on climate change, said Salesian Fr.
Joshtrom Kureethadam, coordinator of the dicastery's ecology and
creation sector. ..<br>
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According to data from the dicastery, more than 4,200 entities had
preregistered before the enrollment period officially opened. More
than a third of those signed up in the past month, during a
dicastery-led 40-day period of prayer accompanied by a media
campaign. That period came after the launch date, initially set for
Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, was pushed back to
mid-November.<br>
The vast majority of registrants, more than 75%, were located in
North America, Europe and South America. The leading sectors were
families (31%), religious communities (23%) and lay organizations
(13%).<br>
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Among the religious orders that have committed are the Society of
Jesus and the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco, the largest men's
and women's religious orders in the church.<br>
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Within the U.S., more than 160 congregations, provinces and
monasteries have identified an "LSAP Promoter" to facilitate their
community's journey.<br>
Sr. Ann Scholz, associate director for social mission with the
Leadership Conference of Women Religious and a member of the
Vatican's religious orders platform working group, said the
congregations that have committed so far range from groups with
fewer than 50 members to others surpassing 500.<br>
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"In a very real sense, religious have been on this journey toward
the realization of God's dream for our common home for a very long
time. It is a gift to be able to join others in this amazing
'integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the
excluded, and at the same time protecting nature,'" she said in an
email, quoting from the encyclical.<br>
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"I think what we seek is really nothing less than a conversion of
heart and the transformation of society," Scholz added.<br>
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The presidents of 80 Catholic universities worldwide have signed
letters of intent to Cardinal Peter Turkson, head of the integral
human development dicastery.<br>
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In addition to Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, another seven
Catholic colleges in Europe, 13 in the Philippines, 13 in Latin
America and seven in Africa intend to participate. U.S. participants
include 30 universities, including the Catholic University of
America and Georgetown University, in the nation's capital; DePaul
University in Chicago, the largest U.S. Catholic school; Loras
College in Dubuque, Iowa; St. Mary's University in San Antonio,
Texas; and Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington...<br>
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Worldwide, 159 dioceses — 17 of them, including the Chicago
Archdiocese, in the U.S. — registered before the enrollment period
opened.<br>
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"There is an environmental crisis that we are in, especially here in
California," as climate change has fueled historic droughts, said
retired Auxilary Bishop Gerald Wilkerson of the Los Angeles
Archdiocese, who chairs the state conference's environmental
stewardship committee. "And I think that helped the bishops to say
that well, it's not just here that we need to be concerned about. We
need to move this into the folks in the pews and we all need to be
repsonsible for what we call our common home."<br>
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The inclusion of the California Catholic bishops is notable after a
study indicated that the vast majority of the U.S. episcopacy have
not responded to or promoted Laudato Si' in the six years since its
release....<br>
José Aguto, executive director of Catholic Climate Covenant, which
is facilitating the U.S. rollout of the Laudato Si' Action Platform,
said interest so far has been "inspiring" and called the initiative
"a tangible platform [for people] to feel like they are contributing
to the solution."...<br>
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"We the church need to be providing genuine hope to young people,
both within the church and beyond the church, that we are going to
care for our common home and strive for a meaningful, viable,
ecologically healthy, sustainable future for present and future
generations," he told EarthBeat.<br>
<br>
More than anything, Aguto said, "we're delighted that this is
finally happening."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/official-launch-laudato-si-action-platform-offers-catholics-concrete-steps-toward">https://www.ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/official-launch-laudato-si-action-platform-offers-catholics-concrete-steps-toward</a><br>
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<i> </i><i>[ Misinformation battleground ]</i><br>
<b>Report: Climate misinformation on Facebook viewed 1.4 million
times daily</b><br>
That's nearly 14 times the traffic of the site's climate science
information hub.<br>
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Facebook may be changing its corporate name, but it’s still peddling
climate misinformation. According to a new report from the advocacy
organization Stop Funding Heat and the ad hoc group of activists
called the Real Facebook Oversight Board, the platform’s existing
mechanisms don’t go nearly far enough to rein in false or misleading
content about climate change. <br>
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The groups analyzed 48,700 posts published between January and
August 2021, covering 196 Facebook groups and pages that are known
to publish false climate claims. They identified 38,925 instances of
climate misinformation — only 3.6 percent of which had been
evaluated by Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers. Eighty-five
percent of the content bore no link to the platform’s Climate
Science Center, a tool the company launched ostensibly to provide
Facebook users with “factual resources from the world’s leading
climate organizations.”...<br>
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“This content causes harm,” Buchan said, adding that without much
stronger efforts and transparency from Facebook’s parent company,
government regulators may need to step in. In the lead-up to the
major climate conference known as COP26, he said, other big tech
companies have put out new efforts to combat climate misinformation.
Last month, Google announced a pledge to demonetize climate denial
content from its video platform, YouTube. And this week, Twitter
announced a new policy of “pre-bunking” climate disinformation in an
attempt to get ahead of false content before users see it.<br>
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Meta, however, seems determined to double down on familiar Facebook
tactics.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grist.org/accountability/report-climate-misinformation-facebook-viewed-million-times-daily/">https://grist.org/accountability/report-climate-misinformation-facebook-viewed-million-times-daily/</a><br>
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<i>[ Facebook is not longer a trusted information source ]</i><br>
OPINION<br>
<b>Social Media Is Polluted With Climate Denialism</b><br>
GREG BENSINGER<br>
Nov. 12, 2021...<br>
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Social media companies simply aren’t rising to the challenge of
rising sea levels. Climate change is an urgent threat, but the
companies are treating misinformation around it with far less
urgency than other issues like political conspiracy theories, hate
speech and lies about Covid vaccines. Climate content can be
considered opinion and is therefore exempt from standard
fact-checking procedures, which climate change deniers have seized
on to push misleading information onto the sites...<br>
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Employees at Facebook have wrestled internally with how to approach
climate change misinformation since at least 2019, according to
documents released by the former Facebook employee Frances Haugen.
According to one exchange, an employee seemed flummoxed by the
company’s refusal to remove posts featuring climate change denial,
because global warming is not a matter of opinion. Another employee
said Facebook removes posts when “content may lead to imminent harm
against people offline.”...<br>
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YouTube says it uses software to make debunked climate content less
likely to show up in people’s recommendation feeds, but the climate
activism nonprofit Avaaz found last year that the algorithm still
prompted millions of views of questionable videos. The group also
found that YouTube was selling ads to run alongside them.<br>
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As a result, Google, YouTube’s parent company, recently took a baby
step, announcing it will no longer allow websites and YouTube
creators to make money off advertising that denies humans’
contributions to climate change or denies global warming. Similarly,
Facebook said climate change and global warming were on a list of
topics that could no longer be used by marketers to target
advertising, starting next year.<br>
But spreading false information on the sites remains as easy as
making a few keystrokes.<br>
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With the public shifting toward acceptance of climate change,
corporate strategies are also evolving, including companies’ use of
paid influencers on Instagram and TikTok who embark on idyllic road
trips to Joshua Tree National Park using Shell gasoline or who snack
on chips from Phillips 66 stations. In an effort to combat
legislation to ban natural gas hookups, the fossil fuel industry
also is paying Instagram stars to post videos of anodyne tasks like
cooking tacos over gas stoves. The aim is to conjure good feelings
about the brands, known to be significant contributors to carbon
emissions, and perhaps even to convince consumers that they are
stylish.<br>
<br>
Elsewhere on the web, pages have sprung up with names like Climate
Change Is Crap and Climate Change Is Natural to spew denialism on
social media — no targeted ads needed. One headline from Climate
Realism: “Evidence Indicates Climate Change Doesn’t Threaten Human
Health.”<br>
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Social media could be a forum for healthy debate about climate
action, but the companies’ flimsy policies around policing climate
change misinformation stand in the way. Automated software systems
are simply not enough to combat misinformation about an unalterably
changing Earth.<br>
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Facebook, YouTube and other companies have shown they have the power
to amplify facts and suppress lies — will they use that to help
protect Earth from its most dire threat?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/climate-change-facebook-glasgow.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/climate-change-facebook-glasgow.html</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
November 15, 1999</b></font><br>
November 15, 1999: Speaking at the London Institute of Petroleum,
former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney declares:<br>
<blockquote>"From the standpoint of the oil industry obviously and
I’ll talk a little later on about gas, but obviously for over a
hundred years we as an industry have had to deal with the pesky
problem that once you find oil and pump it out of the ground
you’ve got to turn around and find more or go out of business.
Producing oil is obviously a self-depleting activity. Every year
you’ve got to find and develop reserves equal to your output just
to stand still, just to stay even. This is true for companies as
well in the broader economic sense as it is for the world. A new
merged company like Exxon-Mobil will have to secure over a billion
and a half barrels of new oil equivalent reserves every year just
to replace existing production. It’s like making one hundred per
cent interest discovery in another major field of some five
hundred million barrels equivalent every four months or finding
two Hibernias a year.<br>
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"For the world as a whole, oil companies are expected to keep
finding and developing enough oil to offset our seventy one
million plus barrel a day of oil depletion, but also to meet new
demand. By some estimates there will be an average of two per cent
annual growth in global oil demand over the years ahead along with
conservatively a three per cent natural decline in production from
existing reserves. That means by 2010 we will need on the order of
an additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil
going to come from?<br>
<br>
"Governments and the national oil companies are obviously
controlling about ninety per cent of the assets. Oil remains
fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the
world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two
thirds of the world’s oil and the lowest cost, is still where the
prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for
greater access there, progress continues to be slow."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-06-08/full-text-dick-cheneys-speech-institute-petroleum-autumn-lunch-1999">http://www.resilience.org/stories/2004-06-08/full-text-dick-cheneys-speech-institute-petroleum-autumn-lunch-1999</a><br>
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