Swiss disappointed with UN environment meeting

The Swiss delegation had travelled to New York with the aim of getting the conference to recognise that energy use, economic development and climate change are closely linked. …The draft of the final declaration in the name of the Group of 77 developing countries and China was approved by Pakistan and the United States. Those countries refuse any specific reference to human activities playing a role in climate change.

Oil producers – May 13

Billions in oil missing in Iraq :U.S. study
Prospects for an oil insurgency in the Angolan exclave
Q&A with Venezuela’s energy minister

IEA calls for OPEC to raise output
IEA: Iran gasoline rationing is a clever move

Corn ethanol – May 13

Hershey mired in chocolate mess (corn prices)
Ethanol seen chomping into corn crops
USDA economist projects 58% growth in ethanol

Transport – May 13

“Car brain” confesses, pleads: ‘make driving annoying and expensive’

Public purse props up fossil fuel industries in Australia
Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change

Local efforts – May 13

Rotterdam wants to halve CO2-emissions

Brisbane: Back to the drawing board for PO and climate change
UK”s Brown to build five eco towns
Local Oregon experts discuss ways to stop climate change

Peak oil and coal – May 13

Daily Mail: Oil-mageddon
Pickens: A future with less oil and more hard choices
Jerome a Paris:
China’s coal production to peak in a few years
Energy news portal – Global Oil Watch

Climate – May 13

Warming triggers ‘alarming’ retreat of Himalayan glaciers
James Lovelock’s strange bedfellows (skeptics)
Nature: A clear direction (the IPCC and geoengineering)
Is this what it takes to save the world? (geoengineering)

Transport – May 11

Monbiot: Air traffic out of control
Flights reach record levels despite warnings over climate change
Frenetic lifestyle puts the boots to leisurely strolls

Climate – May 11

Surge in carbon levels shows vegetation struggling to cope
US ‘bids to water down global warming declaration’
To cool the planet: regulation vs market
Climate change could lead to global conflict say UK foreign secretary

Web and media – May 11

“World Without Oil” – alternative reality game
Project Budburst: Springtime citizen science
Craigslist founder: People who run printing presses ‘screwed’
Videojug may just help save The world

Peak oil – May 11

‘Era of cheap energy is over,’ says Buckee
Rep. Bartlett commemorates Admiral Rickover’s 1957 speech on energy
DOE says computer tools to extract more oil