Interview with Dr. Colin Campbell February 18, 2010
Posted by Graham in : Peak Oil, Podcast, climate change , 6commentsZone5 Podcast #3 with Dr. Colin Campbell on Peak Oil, the Financial Collapse, Adaptation and What the Future May Hold
Colin Campbell, founder of the Association for the Study of peak Oil and Gas, is officially retired from his career as oil geologist and Peak Oil pundit but kindly agreed to this interview for the zone5 podcast.
Colin is the author of several books on the impending peak in world oil production and the implications for modern civilisation including the influential Oil Crisis in 2005 and most recently An Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
In this interview he discusses his career as an oil geologist and how this lead to an awareness of the limits to future production.
Some listeners may be surprised to hear Colin’s scepticism regarding anthropogenic climate change. When I asked him about it later he assured me that he makes no claim to know much about climate change per se, but pointed me to this important paper by Hook, Sivertsson and Aleklett, which examines the projected supply of fossil fuels in scenarios used in the IPCC Emission Scenarios.
These projections by the IPCC seem to take little if any account of the imminent peaking and decline of fossil fuels in the next few years, assuming higher production rates in some cases than even the industry expects to be feasible.
Perhaps concern about this failure by the IPCC to incorporate such essential information leads to questioning its other conclusions.
Ariane Sherine on The Pod Delusion #11 November 29, 2009
Posted by Graham in : Atheism, Podcast, Science and Rationaltiy, climate change , add a commentThis week’s Pod Delusion features a fascinating interview with the wonderful Ariane Sherine, creator of the Atheist Bus campaign and editor of the one essential Christmas gift this year, The Atheists’ Guide to Christmas.
The Atheists’ Guide is a brilliant anthology of atheist and science writing, comedy, fiction and even a section on silly party games, and the best thing about it is that half the profits go to the Terrence Higgins’ Trust
Pod Delusion #11 also includes some other great topical material on the Climate change email leaks (yes, these prove beyond doubt that climate change is a scam) and the new campaign against Boots for selling homeopathic remedies that they admit don’t work. Don’t miss!
Biodynamics on the Pod Delusion November 6, 2009
Posted by Graham in : Health, Podcast, Science and Rationaltiy , add a commentI am on this week’s episode of the UK-based Pod Delusion talking about Biodynamics and the environmental movement:
This week:
David Nutt’s Sacking and Government Policy by Simon Howard A.N Wilson’s Attitude to Science by Pete Hague Irrationality and Environmentalism by Graham Strouts Collective Worship in Schools by Owen Duffy
This is a weekly podcast full of great material on lots of interesting stuff including politics, current affairs, skepticism etc.. Enjoy!
Many thanks to ThetisMercurio for making the connection and getting me onto the Pod Delusion.
