Report: Gov’t needs plan for oil peak
Posted on March 29th, 2007
BusinessWeek.com: The U.S. government is in need of a strategy to minimize potentially dire economic consequences after worldwide oil production peaks and begins to decline, the investigative arm of Congress said Thursday.
Though experts disagree about when daily oil output will reach its maximum level — or whether they have done so already — the Government Accountability Office said in a report that most studies have found oil production will reach a peak sometime between now and 2040.
The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) on board MetOp-A launched in October 2006 and currently undergoing commissioning has delivered the first geophysical products for monitoring the Earth’s ozone layer, and European and global air quality.