石油峰值：呼噜方向盘上的我们。
收看这播客以了解石油峰值的辩论。
Tune in and learn more about the debate over peak oil in this podcast.
石油峰值论的批评人士常常质疑IEA公布的数据。
他提出了问题：石油峰值的临近是否远比许多人所承认的还要早哪？
He has raised questions about whether peak oil is much closer than many have accepted.
2008年：石油峰值；华尔街金融救市；马多夫丑闻。
第二个挑战是石油峰值，我们已经在开始感受它的影响了。
A second challenge is peak oil, the effects of which we are now beginning to feel.
“石油峰值论”者称，大部分世界原油已被探明并正在开采。
The majority of the world's crude, according to believers in "peak oil", has been discovered and is already being exploited.
“我们的星球正走进人口增长、气候变化和石油峰值的完美风暴，”他说。
"Our planet is approaching a perfect storm of population growth, climate change and peak oil," he said.
“石油峰值”指的是石油产量达到最大值后开始下降的时间点。
"Peak oil" is the point where oil production reaches a maximum and then declines.
“石油峰值这一话题就像20年前气候变化那个话题一样，”他说。
"The peak oil conversation is where the climate change conversation was 20 years ago," he said.
胡赛尼在接受美国石油峰值研究协会的公众采访时就已显露了他的悲观看法。
Al-Husseini's gloomy view is known from public interviews such as the one he gave to the US Association for the Study of Peak Oil.
如果石油是指廉价地采自地下洞穴的传统能源，那么“石油峰值”会很快到来。
"Peak oil", if oil means the traditional sort that comes cheaply out of holes in the ground, probably will arrive soon.
40年前我们面临的石油峰值仍在上升，我们急切地需要摆脱对进口石油的依赖。
We face an oil peak well before 40 years is up, making it urgent to rid our dependence on imported oil.
IEA今晚表示，石油峰值论的批评人士常常错误地怀疑IEA统计数据的准确性。
The IEA said tonight that peak oil critics had often wrongly questioned the accuracy of its figures.
4年来，传统的石油生产一直没有增长；至少在这个意义上说，石油峰值已经到来。
Conventional oil production has been flat for four years; in that sense, at least, peak oil has arrived.
部分候选人同时表达了对“石油峰值”的担忧，而核能源的优劣也将纳入讨论。
Some candidates may also express fears over "peak oil". The merits and terrors of nuclear power will be discussed.
文章发现石油峰值到来的日期不是由全球资源的总量而是由资源开采率来决定的。
It found that the date of peak oil will be determined not by the total size of the global resource but by the rate at which it can be exploited.
“石油峰值”这个词最近已经造成了相当大的震动，对于每桶石油达到100美元左右的价格已不再感到惊讶。
The phrase "peak oil" is one that has been tossed around quite a bit lately, which comes at no surprise considering oil is hovering around $100 a barrel.
无论是否使用一个以“P”为首的单词（这里指Peak，顶峰），在石油峰值的辩论上，都赌注庞大。
The peak oil debate – whether one uses the "P" word or not – involves huge stakes.
面对工业化国家需求的持续疲软和从结构上遏制消费的共同努力，“石油峰值”的说法非常难产生反响。
In the face of continuing weak demand in the industrialized world and gathering efforts to curb consumption structurally, the 'peak oil' argument rings hollow.
但与信贷紧缩不同，石油峰值的风险评估涉及了发出警报的石油巨头，还包括像”全球见证“这样的组织。”
Unlike the credit crunch, however, the peak oil risk assessment involves big companies sounding the alarm alongside organisations like Global Witness.
尤金创造了一个概念叫做“石油峰值”，即全球石油供给迅速消耗殆尽，同时，他给予了这个概念的解决之道。
He considers the notion of "peak oil" - the idea that the world's supply is rapidly running out - and mostly dismisses it.
后来本刊对他认为的世界石油产量已经达到顶峰的观点表示怀疑，但他对此满不在乎，表示他也希望“石油峰值”之说是无稽之谈。
He also shrugs off our more recent skepticism about his belief that the world's production of oil has peaked: he, too, hopes that "peak oil" proves to be a myth, he says.
美国能源部提交的一份报告显示赶在石油峰值到来之前启动一个紧急方案来取代目前的能源供应或设备大概需要20年左右才能起作用。
As a report commissioned by the US Department of energy shows, an emergency programme to replace current energy supplies or equipment to anticipate peak oil would need about 20 years to take effect.
受到这些激励方案以及涌现出的“石油峰值”理论的刺激，像壳牌、埃克森石油公司以及阿莫科公司成为在太阳能技术上最大的投资者。
Motivated by these incentives and the emergence of "peak oil" theory, companies like Shell, Exxon, and Amoco became some of the largest investors in solar technology.
如果石油峰值理论家们是正确的，我们终将面临大规模的化石燃料供应中断，那时候可以通过库存来解决碳循环中二氧化碳排放过慢的问题。
Ifpeak oil theorists are correct, we will have largely discontinued our use of fossil fuels and the carbon cycle may be able to handle slow releases of CO2 from storage.
如果石油峰值理论家们是正确的，我们终将面临大规模的化石燃料供应中断，那时候可以通过库存来解决碳循环中二氧化碳排放过慢的问题。
Ifpeak oil theorists are correct, we will have largely discontinued our use of fossil fuels and the carbon cycle may be able to handle slow releases of CO2 from storage.
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