Uppsala research featured in UK report

The UK Energy Research Council study says there is a general consensus that the era of cheap oil is at an end. After reviewing 500 articles and reports they came to their conclusion that there is a "significant risk" that global production of conventional oil could "peak" and decline by 2020. Research results from Global Energy Systems group in Uppsala were frequently quoted and used by the UK report. The authors say the risk presented by global oil depletion deserves much more serious attention by the research and policy communities. "Much existing research focuses upon the economic and political threats to oil supply security and fails to either assess or to effectively integrate the risks presented by physical depletion"

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