Peak oil – May 10
Oil minister: Saudis may not need to raise oil capacity after 2009
Nigeria escalation
Wildcats & tigers: China’s oil acquisition strategy
Peak Oil as a behavioral problem (scholarly publication)
Climate – May 10
Dismay over nuclear ‘solution’ to climate problem
NASA warns climate change could cook Atlantans (110 degrees?)
China says threat from global warming ‘urgent’
Climate change issue heats Capitol Hill
Lovelock: Fiddling with figures while the Earth burns
Greens praise Murdoch’s News Corp climate pledge
Solutions & sustainability – May 10
21 Worldchanging principles in 21 days
Astyk:
Starting the riot for austerity
Lester Brown:
Momentum grows to “Ban the bulb”
For a warmer future, Australia employs Aboriginal wisdom
Energy sources – May 10
Greenhouse crackdown scuppers Kipper gas field (Australia)
U.S.’s thirst for liquid natural gas growing
The cost Of coal on the environment
Energy policy – May 10
World Bank: A world of difference in energy access
IEA:
Outlining the options for our energy future
Castro on energy and biofuels
Religion and peak oil: The next spirituality
Whatever religion or combination of religions rises to prominence as industrial society slides down the far side of Hubbert’s peak, the religious dimension will very likely play a massive role in the way today’s society’s adapt to tomorrow’s world of harsh limits and harsher choices.
Iraq – land of opportunity and adventure?
Iraq will not contribute much new oil to the world’s supply for many years, or perhaps decades, to come — Iraq is a failed state… Geopolitical conflicts such as those in Iraq or Nigeria are one kind of aboveground risk threatening the future oil supply. Such factors, along with geologically determined production declines, conspire to accelerate the timing of peak oil.
Peak oil – May 9
Big Oil running out of oil
Review of Pfeiffer’s Eating Fossil Fuels
Gas gouging legislation – finding scapegoats
Maersk: oil production in North Sea at peak
ODAC News May 9 (JUST ADDED)
Coal’s future in doubt
A new study prepared for the European Commission Joint Research Centre reports: “the world could run out of economically recoverable (at current economic and operating conditions) reserves of coal much earlier than widely anticipated.”
Cornucopian catechism: Notes from Pittsburgh
Trying to bring peak oil to the hometown. An example of the Semmelweis Reflex.
The peak oil crisis: The summer ahead
From unusually low gasoline stocks in the spring to frenzied Chinese economic growth later in the year — all seem destined to play a role in how much money you will be leaving at your favorite gas pump later this year.
Electrifying change
The electricity industry is building momentum toward its next evolutionary leap — to an electronically-enabled electric grid delivering digital-quality power. This shift … will have the most profound effect on the electricity industry in its history.
