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Topic Started: Dec 15 2011, 06:34 AM (439 Views)
Raven
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I'd love to hear something. If you have a link to something interesting, I'd appreciate it!
Edited by Raven, Jan 21 2012, 09:46 AM.
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Oh, sorry -the Internet has been flaky lately and don't get to check stuff. Went to look thru my Facebook news feed and couldn't find it, but this was there:
http://energybulletin.net/stories/2012-01-26/article-in-nature-oils-tipping-point-has-passed
Article in Nature: "Oil's tipping point has passed"
by Staff
The prominent scientific journal Nature has just published an article that supports what we in the peak oil world have been saying for years.

James Murray of the University of Washington and David King of the University of Oxford say that global oil production peaked in 2005 at about 75 million barrels a day.

The "supply of cheap oil has plateaued," said King. "The geologists know where the source rocks are and where the trap structures are," according to Murray. "If there was a prospect for a new giant oil field, I think it would have been found."

(Excerpts from news articles about the article.)

Click on the headline (link) for the full text.

Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage.
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It has some good graphs there too demonstrating what they are talking about.
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Check out all the droughts around the world and down south:
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/author/theextinctionprotocol/#!/page/1
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We are going to be in drought status here if we don't get some snow. Dry summer, dry fall and now dry winter...crossing my fingers for spring. Planning on rotational intensive grazing to try to minimize the effects of drought. Researching drought resistant grasses to seed in pastures. I am already planning on culling hard this spring after the litters are born. Will try to do the same this fall.
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Do think it's going to get that severe here? I was planning on business as usual....except bigger demand for grown products as last summer people from TX and Mo were driving up and filling their vehicles, cars packed to the roof and trucks loaded at the produce auctions. And, to top it, many unhappy people left with nothing because the travelers drove up prices.

Some orders for produce are already starting to trickle in....very early for this time of year.
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I hope not but if you look at the expanding drought section I wouldn't bet against it. They have already called the western side of MN in a moderate drought last fall.
I went to the produce auction last year and couldn't believe how the southerners had driven the prices up. I am planning a better garden this year. Going to use the fabric to keep the weeds down. Not sure how to get rid of the comfrey and horseradish. That stuff will grow through cement. I am not a very attentive gardener and I need to make it user friendly.
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Shall we bring a shovel and take some off your hands? Depends on if the ground is soft is its possible. I love horse radish and comfrey.
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Be careful of what you wish for. I am moving a bunch of the comfrey to the pasture in several places as the livestock love it when it is little.
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Video of 2011 earthquakes. Turn on your sound and go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwWn_W6ZbT4&feature=youtu.be
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Why sound? I had mine on and it sounded like static - no narrator or anything. But, anyway, looks like last year there was a peak period in early March and then a much smaller peak in July - the rest of the year it looked pretty static. So, did that compare it to any other years, or did I miss that part? I know that there are hundreds of little quakes a day all over the world, and always have been; are these worse, then?
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