Why am I beating this dead horse?

CNN is so "spun" it's not even funny anymore.

Something tells me you don't believe in science at all...

There are masive amounts of evidence that global warming is indeed a real thing, and that it is not going to be good to us. As to what the effects will be, they can only guess at this point and who knows, there may actually be cooling trends in certain areas. There is no doubt though that our activity(humans) is changing the world we live on at an exponential rate, and there is ample proof of that.

When I have some time later on, I will send you some links where you can read up on some very interesting stuff. I wouls also highly recommend a book called The whale and the supercomputer, which will explain to you why global climate change models are good as a whole, but bad in smaller regions. It's a matter of computer modeling not being "fine scale" enough. This is something I do know a lot about as it's my business running computer modeling systems.

So don't just toss out a theory because you don't understand it, your pastor tells you it's wrong, or because the current administration says it's bad. Remember, they are known for suppressing evidence and fudging reports.

Did you read this part?

"The Tupi field lies under 2,140 meters (7,060 feet) of water, more than 3,000 meters (almost 10,000 feet) of sand and rocks, and then another 2,000-meter (6,600-foot) thick layer of salt. The company drilled test wells that lie under 2,166 meters (7,100 feet) of water, 286 kilometers (177 miles) south of Rio de Janeiro."

ok... that's a well that is a 23 thousand foot deep well! and they want hundreds of them... Water wells in San Diego county cost 5 bucks a foot to drill, without the casing. And these wells would be in Hurricane alley.

That will be a massive enterprise to get that to market... This is not easy oil like you think, thousand. If that is the kind of oil we will be left with you can expect prices to double... And double again. Just because it's there, doesn't mean its usable. Take shale oil. We have massive amounts of that, and people have been working for 50 years on an economical way to get at it, but to date, there is no technology in place to recover that oil that doesn't cost more than the value of the product itself. The current method is strip mining...

Whether we have reached peak oil or not, Cannot tell you, but thousands of intelligent people in the industry, in science and academia, and in various government entities around the world are trying to answer this question as we sit here and 'armchair QB' them.

My personal belief is that at least for the easy to get stuff, we are nearing or already at peak production, but there will be more to be found in increasingly harder places to get at it. And the only way we are going to 'survive' it as a nation and society will be curtailing use wherever possible, and through major conservation efforts. And Btw, The anwar oil is not easy to get... I spent a bunch of time in the bearing and arctic seas when in the USCG, and that is a mean sea and a meaner coast. And the present Alaska leases have only ever been profitable due to the government subsidies. And I am done with paying my taxes so Exxon can be profitable...

I'm not sure if you are saying that there are still vast oil reservoirs remaining to be discovered, or that Peak Oil is real. Personally, I think that Peak Oil is occurring at this time, in that the known oil reserves are drying up. It is quite possible that there are still huge reserves hiding under the deep ocean. But since the deep ocean reserves are a new frontier that we have not yet tapped, it may be very difficult for us to get this oil out. It could easily take 10 years, possibly even decades, for us to create the infrastructure to tap this oil. In the meantime, we will go thru a difficult period of contraction while we struggle to survive in a world that is half out of gas.