Climate – Dec 2
CO2 emission growth rates – doubled since 90s
Nepal’s farmers on front line of climate change
Global warming: worry, don’t panic
OPEC resurgent – Dec 2
US urges Opec not to cut production
Conflicting signal on need for deeper cut
Bodman on Africa and OPEC
OPEC expansion ups clout
OPEC and the West: Jerome a Paris asks who are our governments working for?
Peak oil – Dec 2
Gazprom City – the new Ozymandias?
Reflections on “The Prize”
TOD’s Nate Hagens interviewed
Peak oil to peak gas is a short ride
Peak Oil passnotes: We were on the money
UK oil production continues decline
Coal – Dec 2
Australia: King coal under siege
Coal or happiness: you can’t have both
Can we lock greenhouse gases away in rocks?
The Southern Appalachians – victims of coal
Good forecasts/bad forecasts: how does the US DOE/EIA come out?
The US DOE/EIA doesn’t perform realistic analyses for the future production capabilities of countries. Their objective appears to be to provide happy projections that fit their assessment of future global consumption. (Several case studies provided.)
“Energy resources and our future” – remarks by Admiral Hyman Rickover delivered in 1957
Nearly 50 years ago, Admiral Rickover (“father of the nuclear submarine”) delivered a talk that covered almost all the themes of peak oil, energy and sustainabilty. Reading it is a spine-chilling experience, to see how prophetic Rickover was, and to realize how we’ve erred by ignoring his warnings.
Ireland & UK – Dec 1
Ireland ‘sleep walking’ to oil crisis
The black hole at the heart of the UK’s energy supply
Lovelock predicts Britain will triumph over global warming
Climate science – Dec 1
Deadly ocean burp
FAO: Livestock a major threat to environment
Massive ice shelf ‘may collapse without warning’
Transport – Dec 1
John Urry on Social Networks
Transport planners asleep at the wheel
Traffic jams, and the rain in Spain
Please fasten your seatbelt and cross your legs…
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 1
Amory Lovins on Charlie Rose Show
Korea expert argues for sustainable development
Hollywood, through a green lens
Food & agriculture – Dec 1
Father of modern arboriculture dies
Pfeiffer’s book on industrial agriculture
Livestock causes 1/5 of human-caused GHGs
BC’s first totally local winter restaurant menu
Ethanol skeptic sees painful realities ahead
Reducing DoD fossil-fuel dependence
Conclusions of the report: “Barring unforeseen circumstances, availability concerns are not a decision driver in the reduction of DoD fossil-fuel use at present. However, the need to improve logistics requirements and military capabilities, and, secondarily, the need to reduce fuel costs, as well as providing a prudent hedge against a foggy future, especially in the Middle East and South America, argue for a reduction in fuel use, in general.”
