{"id":424371,"date":"2026-02-02T19:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424371"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T18:48:57","slug":"expert-study-shows-sanity-returning-to-global-oil-forecasts-but-damage-has-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=424371","title":{"rendered":"Expert Study Shows Sanity Returning to Global Oil Forecasts, But Damage Has Been"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"440\" data-attachment-id=\"424376\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=424376\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AQM6uASCh6sY3Vl9GzRbxNJlfaVQdKi6F0AOxT5JUJC9Wb9nnTCSXqIU5Nl8EQA54rBFdiIeCYANxSVRWaH9wQTJAraNw8QMEoNs4rvyI7t6Xnx7N5dkEtxdBydYQ7WY.jpeg?w=1447&amp;ssl=1 1447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2026\/02\/01\/expert-study-shows-sanity-returning-to-global-oil-forecasts-but-damage-has-been-done\/\">Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/authors\/william_murray\/\">William Murray<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"369\" data-attachment-id=\"424374\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=424374\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-02-163150.png?w=1476&amp;ssl=1 1476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It can be hard to explain to a general audience how important the release of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) is to policymakers, energy companies and investors who make hundreds of billions of dollars in investment decisions worldwide each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Outlook is published yearly by the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), one of the world\u2019s most preeminent authorities on energy data. The IEA was formed in 1974 by many of the world\u2019s most developed countries to provide better information on oil and gas demand forecasts in the wake of the 1973 OPEC oil embargo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Beginning in the early 1990s, the Outlook included a Current Policies Scenario (CPS) that forecast future oil and natural gas demand over the coming decades based on current laws and government energy policies. This scenario was then used by banks and companies to extrapolate how many billions of dollars they must invest to satisfy coming energy demand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The IEA\u2019s all-star reputation made the CPS the benchmark for global energy supply and demand forecasts for decades \u2013 until recently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, under its long-time Executive Director Fatih Birol, the IEA decided to abandon the CPS, \u201cin part due to pressure from European nations and green campaigners,\u201d according to Bloomberg energy analyst Javier Blas. Most of these green campaigners were interested in using climate policies to permanently displace oil and coal production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">To do this, IEA inserted new scenarios that considered policy ambitions and aspirations that had not yet become law. This analytical misdirection allowed Paris Accord-era net-zero emission goals to become a concrete forecasting reality. As a result, these forecasts showed peak global oil demand only an additional 3 million to 106 million barrels a day by 2030 before permanently declining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Riding on IEA\u2019s reputation, these forecasts helped the Davos crowd churn elite public opinion toward the Net-zero and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework in the early 2020s, which played a role in the ultimate suppression of billions of dollars in investment in carbon and hydrocarbon resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The IEA reinstated the Current Policies Scenario for 2025 after pressure from the Trump administration, while confirming that no peak in global oil demand should be expected until at least 2050. This is a welcome decision, but not before much damage was done, according to a recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/energyanalytics.org\/the-return-of-realism-in-global-oil-forecasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report published by the National Center for Energy Analytics (NCEA)<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The report, written by Neil Atkinson, a NCEA Visiting Fellow and the former head of the IEA\u2019s Oil Industry and Markets division, and Adam Sieminski, former administrator for the U.S. Energy Information Administration, found that while reinstatement of the CPS in the 2025 WEO \u201chas gone a long way toward answering that its scenarios are divorced from reality,\u201d the IEA must still do more to reverse past mistakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The latest critique found that the IEA is still making a series of unsupportable market assumptions, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Electric Vehicles:<\/strong>&nbsp;Forecasts of electric vehicle adoption remain overly optimistic, leading to overestimates of oil demand destruction for light-duty vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Aviation:<\/strong>&nbsp;A forecast for even a small reduction in aviation fuel use remains overly aggressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Marine shipping:<\/strong>&nbsp;The IEA continues to present overly aggressive forecasts of a significant decline in crude oil use for global oceangoing shipping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Even if the IEA fixes its methodological problems and appoints a new Executive Director, damage from the five-year absence of the Current Policies Scenario could last for a long time. Sieminski and Atkinson estimate that as much as $1.5 trillion of underinvestment in oil and natural gas exploration is expected over the next decade. Underinvestment in the oil patch leads to supply shortfalls, which inevitably brings about a spike in energy prices and a new, much higher price plateau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">By projecting a 2030 demand peak for oil, the IEA sacrificed its credibility, giving succor and elite air cover to organizations like the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, an UN-backed group whose members topped out at 140 banks with trillions of dollars in assets, pledging to align their portfolios with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It is unknown exactly how much international investment banks withdrew from funding Arctic oil and coal resources, but many went on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/sustainability\/environment\/528255-every-major-us-bank-has-now-come-out-against\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record saying they did.<\/a>&nbsp;The collapse of the Banking Alliance in the fall of 2025, driven by a combination of political pressure and market realities, will not make up for the consequences of a self-inflicted, years-long supply-demand lag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The report\u2019s authors do not go so far as to directly accuse the IEA of sneakily undermining the investment climate enough to create future recession-causing price spikes, but energy experts know that similar production shortfalls in the past have done exactly that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the 1970s, a barrel of oil went from $4 to a new plateau of about $32 a barrel by 1981, a seven-fold rise in the nominal price that crashed many national economies. In the super-spike era between 2004 and 2013, long-term oil prices roughly tripled while playing an underappreciated supporting role in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If another major upward price correction arrives in the coming years, don\u2019t forget to include the IEA\u2019s willful errors when making a list of perpetrators. All government institutions are political, no matter how much structure is insulated from direct influence. Let\u2019s hope the IEA has learned a lesson or two about the costs of believing there is a \u201cright side of history\u201d to be on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>William Murray is a former chief speechwriter for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the past editor of RealClearEnergy from 2015-2017, and has covered energy and environmental policy in Washington D.C., as a journalist and analyst for the past two decades.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This article was originally published by RealClearEnergy and made available via RealClearWire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be hard to explain to a general audience how important the release of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) is to policymakers, energy companies and investors who make hundreds of billions of dollars in investment decisions worldwide each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":424376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"Discover the impact of the IEA's forecasting errors on global oil demand and investment, and explore potential future energy price spikes.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"World Energy Outlook: Impacts of IEA's Forecasting Shift","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xpbWF0ZS1zY2llbmNlLnByZXNzXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDI2XC8wMlwvQVFNNnVBU0NoNnNZM1ZsOUd6UmJ4TkpsZmFWUWRLaTZGMEFPeFQ1SlVKQzlXYjlublRDU1hxSVU1Tmw4RVFBNTRyQkZkaUllQ1lBTnhTVlJXYUg5d1FUSkFyYU53OFFNRW9OczRydnlJN3Q2WG54N041ZGtFdHhkQnlkWVE3V1ktMTAyNHg2MjMuanBlZyIsInR4dCI6IkV4cGVydCBTdHVkeSBTaG93cyBTYW5pdHkgUmV0dXJuaW5nIHRvIEdsb2JhbCBPaWwgRm9yZWNhc3RzLCBCdXQgRGFtYWdlIEhhcyBCZWVuIiwidGVtcGxhdGUiOiJoaWdod2F5IiwiZm9udCI6IiIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE1NTgxMjQ0OX0.XfjO48NV6WmapBxkrQcLtJFiFX8pd3aWGrpxaeAJ-2EMQ"},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818362,691841165,691818229,691820835,691818154,691819148,691836869],"class_list":{"0":"post-424371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-policies","9":"tag-current-policies-scenario-cps","10":"tag-esg","11":"tag-international-energy-agency-iea","12":"tag-net-zero","13":"tag-oil-and-gas","14":"tag-world-energy-outlook-weo","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AQM6uASCh6sY3Vl9GzRbxNJlfaVQdKi6F0AOxT5JUJC9Wb9nnTCSXqIU5Nl8EQA54rBFdiIeCYANxSVRWaH9wQTJAraNw8QMEoNs4rvyI7t6Xnx7N5dkEtxdBydYQ7WY.jpeg?fit=1447%2C881&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1MoH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":371577,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=371577","url_meta":{"origin":424371,"position":0},"title":"Beware: Flawed Energy Assumptions Incite Delusional\u00a0Scenarios","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"24\/03\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Industry players consider the International Energy Agency\u2019s signature annual report, the World Energy Outlook, to contain highly credible analyses. However, a new\u00a0critique\u00a0from the National Center of Energy Analytics experts\u00a0finds the IEA\u2019s latest scenarios on future oil demand to be problematic and potentially, dangerously wrong.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In \"International Energy Agency\u2019s (IEA)\"","block_context":{"text":"International Energy Agency\u2019s (IEA)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=international-energy-agencys-iea"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/01688560056712.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/01688560056712.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/01688560056712.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/01688560056712.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/01688560056712.jpeg?fit=1200%2C686&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":317012,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=317012","url_meta":{"origin":424371,"position":1},"title":"U.S. Congress to International Energy Agency (Fatih Birol): Stop \u2018Net Zero\u2019 Cheerleading!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/04\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201c[I]n recent years the IEA has been undermining energy security by discouraging sufficient investment in energy supplies\u2026 Moreover, its energy modeling no longer provides policymakers with balanced assessments of energy and climate proposals. 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