Geopolitics – Feb 23

The next attack: oil refineries?
Putin and the geopolitics of the new Cold War
Iraq: The fallacy of bleed-out

Oil producers – Feb 23

Oily truth emerges in Iraq: new oil law
Somalia: an oily cliché
Africa tops Mideast as US crude source

Peak oil – Feb 23

Kunstler talk: “America, think downscale!”
Climate change, peak oil and nuclear war
Study sees harmful hunt for extra oil
Climate Change, sabre tooth tigers and devaluing the future

U.S. – Feb 23

Where Bush would steer energy R&D
Grist interviews Vilsack on energy
Bush asked to help states fund heating fuel aid

Oil industry – Feb 23

Can OPEC and non-OPEC stop the oil price?
Ontario’s gas shortage a symptom of infrastructure problem
No manipulation found in Calif. crude prices

West Coast climate race – Feb 23

British Columbia and the climate race
Calif. Democrats unveil global warming bill
British Columbia: Analysts respond to green throne speech

Oceans and climate – Feb 23

CO2 threatens oceans with massive extinction
Warming oceans contain less oxygen for fish
Southern Ocean “strangled” by GHGs

Dysfunction – Feb 22

Children’s TV ‘is linked to cancer, autism, dementia’
Scientific evidence: TV rots brain, ruins body
Malaysia to confine foreign workers
Endangered languages encode plant and animal knowledge

Food & agriculture – Feb 22

Bon appetit – and now we’re growing our own

The Senate slaps sustainable ag (ATTRA)
Just keep farming until the money runs out

Oz crop production worst in 20 years
Farmland the new hot property

Biofuels – Feb 22

Oilmen say Bush’s energy obstacle: ethanol
Corn Grower VP talks high corn prices

Latin America prepares for prosperity, sparked by biofuel boom

Middle East – Feb 22

Iraqi oil wealth stays locked up
The view from Tehran

Iran: Unstable, troubled oil giant
Abu Dhabi to build $350m solar power plant

Peak oil – Feb 22

Dialoguing with Dr. Peter Jackson of CERA
Libération: Vive le pétrole cher
Oil prices likely to dip – but not far
Dmitry Orlov interview (part 2)
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