[Leanan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')effeyes is more optimistic than I am.

[EnergySpin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('UIUCstudent01', 'I') especially liked this part of his biography:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hile working on his Ph.D. thesis, Ken found millions of tons of erionite, a mineral in the zeolite family, which had previously been known only from a single mineral specimen in the Harvard museum. Ken's first published paper was a redescription of erionite; it was his baby. Around 1980, erionite was found to be associated with a high incidence of cancer in three villages in Turkey. When researchers at Mt. Sinai Hospital injected rats with the same dosage of erionite that they used for asbestos, the rats didn't live long enough to get cancer. At a much-reduced dose, the rats did get cancer. Erionite is probably the most toxic known mineral; a milligram of fibers in the lungs is lethal. Ken's reaction on learning that his baby was a mass murderer was like all parents of mass murderers: "I don't understand it, erionite was such a nice quiet mineral."

[jdumars]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TheInterloafer', 'W')ho would want to be at even 1985 levels??

[Alnitaka]

Deffeyes gave us an interesting back-diction in his peak oil date of December 16, 2005, but I would have liked to have seen all of his article. He says "Since we have passed the peak without initiating major corrective measures, we now have to rely prim" and then the rest of it gets cut off. I emailed him about the problem but the site is still like that. Does anyone know what happened to it?

[aldente]

Obviously the backdating there with three weeks is just a joke. This fellow is an original PeakOiler (read his bio) dating back to the 50'!. I understand his sarcasm, given the amount of e-mails that he probably receives on a daily basis these days.

[Leanan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')e says "Since we have passed the peak without initiating major corrective measures, we now have to rely prim" and then the rest of it gets cut off. I emailed him about the problem but the site is still like that. Does anyone know what happened to it?

[Zardoz]

This is getting depressing:

Author Ken Deffeyes thinks the depletion of fossil fuels could lead to a worldwide cataclysm

*sighs, posts new thread, goes to bed*

[UIUCstudent01]

I never read about Deffeyes doomer side!

That's awesome.

Geez, more and more, I think the U.S. is just going to crash and burn the moment we get some big/prolonged oil shock.

[UIUCstudent01]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('UIUCstudent01', 'T')hat's awesome.

[Peak_Plus]

read it.

Looks like it was printed because of the quote that Oregon is the place to live (at the very end of the article):
"What I'd like to have is farmland on volcanic rich soils so that it doesn't require fertilizer. And I need a place where there's enough rainfall. <b>Maybe this could be in Oregon</b>. Owning something that's relatively energy independent and supplies food for the survivors to eat would be the sweetest target."

[Leanan]

No, it's the other way around. Deffeyes had a speaking engagement in Oregon (read the second line of the article). That's why he mentioned Oregon, and why he was interviewed in the local paper.

[Peak_Plus]

...and then got his views printed.
Sorry, don't (want to) get your point.
He was playing to his local audience and that's why the paper was printing it in the first place. It wasn't too controversial to print because the answer would lie in Oregan anyway. NYT would print such an article when the premises are half accepted anyway.

[Leanan]

No, I think they'd have printed it even if he hadn't said that. They did after all invite him to speak in Oregon. A local group is sponsoring a series of peak oil speakers in Oregon, and tickets are selling out:

http://www.peakoil.com/article11565.html

I suspect they have their contacts in the press, and arranged the interview.

[whatpeak]

Deffeyes refers to Amos Nur's website. Check out Oil & War

Amoses Homepage

sleep well.

[thuja]

Funny thing is- they printed the Deffeye's article in the business section. It doesn't get all freaky and apocolpticky until the inside page. I think most people get a little too bored with the first page (if we can surmise correctly, then hitherto unrecoverable barrels of oil may never...) to ever get to the armageddon, gonna buy me a plot of arable land part on the in-page.

Being from Portland, I didn't attend the event but I heard that he's a tad wonkish when he speaks and doesn't understand the sustainable alternatives thing too well.

[Novus]

I really like this quote from the article.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Deffeyes', 'T')he mildest form of the disaster is a global recession worse than the Great Depression, and that's a form it could take rather than war, famine, pestilence and death.

[kochevnik]

This is a pretty basic question, but would any of you master gardeners / farmers agree with Deffeyes idea that volcanic soil doesn't need fertilizer ?