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1) World Oil Supplies To Run Out In Four Years
2) Changes In Climate Conditions Blamed On Human Activity

WORLD OIL SUPPLIES TO
RUN OUT IN FOUR YEARS

Scientists have criticized a major review of the world's remaining oil reserves, warning that the end of oil is coming sooner than governments and oil companies are prepared to admit.

Scientists led by the London-based Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, say that global production of oil is set to peak in the next four years before entering a steepening decline, which will have massive consequences for the world economy and the way that we live our lives.

According to "peak oil" theory our consumption of oil will catch, then outstrip our discovery of new reserves and we will begin to deplete known reserves.

Colin Campbell, the head of the depletion centre, said: "It's quite a simple theory and one that any beer drinker understands. The glass starts full and ends empty and the faster you drink it the quicker it's gone."

Dr. Campbell is a former chief geologist and vice-president at a string of oil majors including BP, Shell, Fina, Exxon and Chevron -Texaco. He explains that the peak of regular oil - the cheap and easy to extract stuff - has already come and gone in 2005. Even when you factor in the more difficult to extract heavy oil, deep sea reserves, polar regions and liquid taken from gas, the peak will come as soon as 2011, he says.

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CHANGES IN CLIMATE CONDITIONS
BLAMED ON HUMAN ACTIVITY
(Reuters News Agency)

WASHINGTON — Human activities that spur global warming are largely to blame for changes in rainfall patterns over the past century, according to Canadian climate researchers.

Human-caused climate change has been responsible for higher air temperatures and hotter seas and is widely expected to lead to more droughts, wildfires and floods, but the authors say this is the first study to specifically link it to precipitation changes.

“For the first time, climate scientists have clearly detected the human fingerprint on changing global precipitation patterns over the past century,’’ researchers from Environment Canada said.

The scientists, writing in the journal Nature, found humans contributed significantly to these changes, which include more rain and snow in northern regions that include Canada, Russia and Europe, drier conditions in the northern tropics and more rainfall in the southern tropics.

So-called anthropogenic climate change has had a “detectable influence’’ on changes in average precipitation in these areas, and it cannot be explained by normal climate variations, they wrote.

Weather experts in Britain raised the possibility that the current rains there may be related to climate change.

“The global climate models indicate a future for the U.K. with drier summers and wetter winters, but storm events in the summer are predicted to be more frequent and more intense,’’ David Butler of the University of Exeter said. “So it may well be the case that we will have to learn to live with more flooding.”

Numerous studies and a report by a panel of scientists convened by the United Nations have reported with increasing certainty that human activities — notably the burning of fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases — have contributed to global warming in the past half-century and that the effects of this are already evident.

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