Earth is FINITE. Deal with it.

At 0:52, "plenty of oil" has never been the point, it's the cost of getting what's left out of the ground that matters. People consistently fail to see that simple point. The easy pickings are naturally taken first, as with any resource, even an apple tree.

If all the world's oil was in one big,...

Too bad more "good ol' boys" don't agree with his message, and influence their cronies who need it the most. Most are too busy quoting Scripture to face the real world.

Still, Pickens has a lot of self-interest in this and isn't quite dealing with the whole fossil fuel issue. Gas fracking is alr...

@Ilikemustard, how can you possibly say there's no sign of scarcity on this planet?!

U.S. oil production peaked in 1970 and global crude output has been flat since 2005. Look at the price of oil! Random past examples of resource substitutes have no bearing on today's unprecedented oil situation...

Kerogen shale is like a guy with a shovel, digging in a damp riverbed, expending tremendous amounts of energy to wring water out of the sand, sweating pints of of his own water just to gain a few pints from the sand, then claiming he's found a vast water supply. It's called "failure to do the mat...

@lidarman2, actually, global oil production has been mostly flat since 2005, which is a strong sign of a peak/plateau. It fits very well with the price spikes we've been seeing for years. Denial is not optimism.

From the EnergyBulletin website: "Of the 65 largest oil producing countries in the w...

Most politicians seem obsessed with continued growth; even the ones who seem to understand what it's doing to nature. Growth is a buzzword they're expected to include in speeches.

The professor is right about physical limits to growth, but there's no way America is going to voluntarily share too...

@david222444, cite your sources for those absurd, backwards claims. My sources are climatologists and geologists (at least the ones who haven't been bought as shills).

@starvetodeath123, well, that's the whole problem, The brain-dead interpret this routine as a "win" for their anti-nature agenda. It got on my nerves so much that I made a clip and write-up debunking Carlin's mistakes.

He gave a widely misinterpreted message with this monologue because of his fa...

@tgreg990, natural gas (U.S. fracking) may be grossly overhyped - as industry likes to boost stock prices and many wells have dried up prematurely already.

Unless nuclear fusion is finally realized, nuclear fission is based on finite uranium which could peak itself this century if heavily exploi...

This definitely shatters the Al Gore conspiracy myth. He is mainly a celebrity spokesman for the issue.

As mentioned, knowledge of the CO2/greenhouse connection goes back to the 1800s with Tyndall and Arrhenius. There was earlier scientific skepticism triggered by the theories of Guy Callendar i...

@ninasooz, without their TV show, I wonder if they could afford all those kids?

But even if richer people can afford to feed a ton of kids with money, the added burden on natural resources from all their future generations is still there. Money itself isn't a physical resource and limits need to...

And meanwhile the world's population grows by well over 80 million annually, as if 7 BILLION isn't already enough.

@Dealit707, people who think global warming is a money scam have an odd habit of ignoring far greater sums of money being protected by fossil fuel interests.

Memos from oil companies and GOP-related think-tanks have long shown that they want the public to think the "science isn't settled." See "...

The general overpopulation in that part of the world is no small factor in AGW, as they aspire to modern living standards, which means burning more oil. A big dose of birth control is needed, among other solutions.

One's sympathy for the plight of India is limited if they don't do something about increasing birth control. AGW is largely a symptom of too many people, plus overconsumption in more modern nations, of course. Everyone needs to acknowledge their role and not play the victim.

@Huttate1, the half-wits who keep saying "drill, baby, drill!" should be forced to write EROEI on a blackboard 100 times. They simply don't get the math, and don't care to learn it.

Those 2016 gas prices they show have already been eclipsed by well over a dollar in America. This was made in 2006 and is already obsolete. $5 gallon (avg.) gas could easily be a reality much sooner.

Notice how the Feb. 2012 economic boost is already driving up oil prices again; a classic peaki...

@chucknorris687, nuclear fusion would be ideal if "they" can ever make it work, but you must know that uranium is also a finite resource, and full-bore nuclear could deplete it within this century.

There needs to be an acknowledgement that the world is simply too crowded with people, and most of...

Google the following phrase to see a scientific answer, circa 2010.

"Now British scientists claim to have finally come up with the definitive answer: The chicken"

Ironic that a global warming denier like Beck would bring up those fires.

Same deal with the Texas drought of 2011, which we'll surely see a repeat of as CO2 levels continue to rise and right-wingers ignore the consequences. More prayer (e.g. Rick Perry) sure won't help.

If a Presidential candidate today suggests that America needs to scale down it's gluttony and go without, he won't get elected - at least in the near future. But eventually it will seem passé to make such statements.

The hippo was showing the gawking people how it felt about them caging it up.

He reminds me of our future if global warming deniers keep getting elected to high offices.

@motina10, debt is just thin air. People keep equating abstract money with something tangible. They obsess over dollars and ignore the underpinnings. I can't trust financial advice from people who don't grasp geology.