MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03224mam a22003974a 4500
001 3100463
005 20221019220247.0
008 010418t20012001njuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2001032103
015 $aGBA1-V9356
020 $a0691090866 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm46822408
035 $9ATT0481CU
035 $a3100463
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dUKM$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
042 $apcc
050 00 $aTN870$b.D37 2001
082 00 $a333.8/23211$221
100 1 $aDeffeyes, Kenneth S.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93033813
245 10 $aHubbert's peak :$bthe impending world oil shortage /$cKenneth S. Deffeyes.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $aix, 208 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index.
520 1 $a"In 1956, geophysicist M. King Hubbert - then working at the Shell research lab in Houston - predicted that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized and occasionally ridiculed by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came true in 1970.
520 8 $aThe hundred-year period during which most of the world's oil was discovered became known as Hubbert's peak - a span of time almost comically shorter than the hundreds of millions of years the oil deposits took to form.".
520 8 $a"Using the same methods that Hubbert used to make his stunningly accurate prediction, Kenneth Deffeyes finds that world oil production will peak within five years and that there isn't anything we can do to stop it. New exploration and production technologies can't save us, and plans to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other areas to drilling offer no more than a small and soon-to-be-forgotten blip on the production curve.
520 8 $aWhile long-term solutions exist in the form of conservation and alternative energy sources, they probably cannot - and almost certainly will not - be enacted in time to evade a short-term catastrophe of shortages, soaring prices, and global economic, agricultural, and possible political disturbance.".
520 8 $a"None of this is news to most specialists and many within the petroleum industry, but politicians, the media, and the public at large aren't hearing about it. Thanks to this book, they soon will. Thoroughly accessible, surprisingly charming, and filled with entertaining anecdotes, it demonstrates why a world wide energy crisis is just around the corner. And, though the near-term scenario is ugly, Deffeyes tells us what we can do to thrive after Hubbert's peak has passed."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPetroleum reserves.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100389
650 0 $aPetroleum industry and trade.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100430
650 0 $aPetroleum reserves$xForecasting.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008003326
650 0 $aPetroleum industry and trade$xForecasting.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010105901
852 00 $bglg$hTN870$i.D37 2001
852 00 $bleh$hTN870$i.D37 2001