But the track record of peak oil theorists on such matters has not been impressive their predictions have steadily moved forward the date that global oil production will peak. Worse still, they have made no serious attempt to identify why their earlier predictions have had to be revised.

We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

And you peak out.

And so, 25 years ago, there was a peak oil just like, in the 1920s, there was a peak coal and a hundred years before that, there was a peak wood.

Well, I think out ahead of us a few decades is peak gas, and beyond that, peak renewables.

The excitement reached its peak.

Peak fitting and data analysis

But 280 is the peak.

We have reached peak child.

In any case, arguments about the size of world oil reserves and when global production will peak misses the key security issue. The heart of the problem is not the overall quantity of oil, but its location.

But by reducing your energy use, pretty much at the peak times usually when you have you air conditioning on, or other times like that this generates the peak power at the peak usage time, so it's very complementary in that sense.

Industrial production is 7 below its pre crisis peak in 2008. This, together with the decline in manufactured goods as a share of total exports, from 54 a decade ago to 37 today, points to a substantial loss of competitiveness.

So about seven years, eight years to reach your peak, and then gradually you fall off your peak, until you go back to the starting point.

This is about 1990 peak of the crack epidemic.

But of those, 65 have already passed their peak.

because the real peak is hidden around the corner.

The average reduction was 40 since the national peak.

The average reduction was 40 since the national peak.

But when he reached the mountain peak, he found the peak covered with countless flags of world conquerors before him, each one claiming 'I was here first' ...

You want to be able to do this anywhere in the world and not worry about peak rice hull or peak cottonseed hulls, because you have multiple choices.

This is peak fishing in a few seconds. The '60s.

You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

(b) Refer to Annex 1 for details of peak year.

We are now entering the peak of the lean season .

(b) Refer to Annex 1 for details of peak year.

But this prediction is close to a tautology. For it to be useful, believers in scarce oil must be able to predict such things as the timing of the oil peak, the state of demand when oil production reaches it, and the pattern of decline.

This is Lake Baikal in the peak of the Siberian winter.

The first peak, obviously, is the limb hitting the load cell.

Now, scoop up Long's Peak, and put it out in space.

What are the chances that represents a peak of human flourishing?

This is the largest supermarket in the Caribbean at peak shopping time.

That number has declined from the 1.6 million peak registered in 1993.

Much of this Caspian oil is in Kazakhstan, giving that country a critical role in the regional energy market. Moreover, Kazakhstan s strategic importance has increased as a result of recent revelations that the country s Kashagan oil field will produce 25 more than initially expected at peak production.

Resources are the available volumes of hydrocarbon without reference to constraints as to their accessibility and or cost. Resources impose an upper bound on what ultimately can be produced thus, it is the relevant concept for determining the likely dates of peak production and ultimate exhaustion.

Methyl bromide in developing countries had been reduced from a peak of 18,140 in 1998 to 11,858 in 2003, but several external factors, including the large critical use requests, continued promotion of methyl bromide production and global oversupply leading to lower prices, had threatened continued reduction.

(a) Production and production capacity

Now this was into August now, and normally sharks peak at June, July.

For example, over the next 25 years, 60 of the EU s generating capacity is due to retire contributing to demand for 2.2 trillion of energy investment. Furthermore, with US tight oil production expected to peak in the early 2020s, new sources must be developed, such as in Iraq.

At their peak spin rates, these maturing stars eject large amounts of stellar wind.

International assistance tends to reach its peak in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.

Seasonal variations are considerable, November and March being the peak times for fish harvesting.

The passenger (car) flow peak in the exit direction in the ports in Luohu, Shenzhen Bay, Huanggang, and Futian occurred in the morning of October 1. The passenger flow peak in Luohu port lasted from 9 00 am to 11 00 am, and the passenger (car) flow peak in Shenzhen Bay port lasted from 6 30 am to the noon at 13 00.

The peak number of military observers increased from 1,929 in 2002 03 to 2,022 in 2003 04 and the peak number of civilian staff in missions decreased slightly from 11,165 in 2002 03 to 10,545 in 2003 04.

In other words at some point when we've recovered we go up to the peak.

And this particular painting, I think, represents the pinnacle, the peak, of that clinical era.