A new industry poll published in E&P, the world’s leading publication for oil and gas professionals, reveals that worldwide concern about climate and economic risks from fossil fuels is very high.

These are quite different results from a Gallup poll on a reduction in climate concerns widely publicized yesterday, showing that conservatives’ belief that climate change is occurring has dropped a full 20 points in the last year to just 30%, obscuring a relatively minor rise of 2% as liberals concern levels rose to 74%.

The threat to the climate is a great concern globally at 83%, with 76% of respondents worrying about future fossil energy shortages. The rising cost of fossil fuels is the biggest worry overall with 90% of the 9,000 respondents in 22 countries.

A large majority of the respondents support more government intervention to build more renewable energy to solve climate change and reduce the cost of extracted energy.

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New research out of Kuwait, using a new method of calculating the crude oil production potential of 47 of the world’s largest oil producing countries, has found that peak oil — the period in time when oil production reaches a maximum and then begins to decline — will come much sooner than expected… 2014 to be exact.

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LIMA, Mar 9 (IPS) - Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country's northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm's work to a halt.
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