Cllimate – Jan 21
The “Monbiot challenge” vs social justice
Stephen Hawking warns of climate change
The final verdict from the IPCC
The unknown unknowns
With each doubling of knowledge, we get a doubling of ignorance.
Ending industrialism
We will have to be much more imaginative as a people if we are to take meaningful action to deal with global warming. It is a simple truth that economic activity that transforms the Earth into consumer products is the main problem.
The ethical challenges of healthcare and peak oil
It is particularly likely that ethical dilemmas will arise during the redesign of the healthcare system as a response to peak oil. This is because there will be a conflict between what is best for society as a whole, versus what is best for the individual.
Peak oil – Jan 21
Update from Kenneth Deffeyes
Conoco reserves disappoint analysts
Modern economic theories unable to tackle peak oil, global warming
Rep. Bartlett supports H.R. 6 energy bill
Australian drought – Jan 21
Drought and corporate profit
Australia ponders climate future
Coral study: more Asian monsoons = more severe Aus droughts
Supermarket’s drought action day
Drought drag on economic growth
More: Snakes, floods, and cracking buildings…
Oil sands – Jan 21
U.S. urges ‘fivefold expansion’ in Alberta oilsands production
Close energy ties to U.S. limit action on climate change
Du sable dans l’engrenage – good Canadian broadcast (French)
Nuclear power in oilsands extraction questioned
Dysfunction – Jan 20
Traffic disaster towers over L.A.
Texas view on environment is 18 lanes wide
Burtynsky photos on consumerist capitalism
The end of the world as they know it
Peak oil – Jan 20
Revenge of the Shia?
Cubic Miles of Oil (CMOs): Getting a grasp on oil production volumes
Pemex predicts production drop
Pemex faces change or drying up
Climate attitude turnaround?
A coalition for firm limit on emissions
Power companies endorse emissions cap bill
Oil companies warm to law on emissions
Warming no longer taboo at Natl Parks Service
Confessions of an alleged ExxonMobil whore
China – Jan 20
China to get tough on green design
Will 2007 be China’s Year of Gasoline imports?
China starts thinking ‘alternative energy’
US farming disaster: a prediction for China?
Climate science – Jan 20
Life in California post-global warming
Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming
Landmark UN study backs climate theory
IPCC: New warnings on climate change
