Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Climate ‘altering UK marine life’
Carbon emissions show sharp rise
Phytoplankton cloud dance
Designing emissions pathways to reduce the risk of dangerous climate change
Black carbon major suspect in warming trend
Answers about the earth’s energy imbalance
Up in smoke: The African apocalypse
Missing keys, holes in fence and a single padlock: welcome to Congo’s nuclear plant
Dounreay ‘will pollute for decades’
Thorium: change the fuel for a happier reaction
Russia will build 42 nuclear reactors by 2030
NYT on EROEI and the Limits of Growth
What is energy worth?
Global warming & energy policy on collision course
Clueless in America: feeding the tape worms of desire
Stanford profs: Oil addiction threatens U.S. security and undermines its influence
US, China fail to reach common ground on energy
US opposes gas deliveries from Iran to Georgia
NATO eyes greater role in energy security
While up on Capitol Hill discussing the prospects for the peak oil message in the new Congress, I was brought up short by a question from a hill staffer. “Can’t you guys sharpen the time frame when oil production is going to peak?”
Dawning of the age of Frankenfuels
Biofuels: Turning petroleum addicts into alcoholics?
Sustainability, energy independence and agricultural policy
Science à la Joe Camel
Global warming goes to court
Landmark climate change ruling in Australia
Carmakers say California’s greenhouse rules would endanger SUVs
Husbanding resources
Earthshakers: the top 100 green campaigners of all time
Pastor chosen to lead Christian Coalition steps down in dispute over agenda
If we want more people to understand peak oil, we need a list of clear, understandable and approachable counter-arguments with data. This really needs a Wiki page.
Correa ‘wins Ecuador’s election’
Venezuela’s oil-based economy
Mexico: An energy quagmire awaits president-elect
Richard Heinberg on towns and cities preparing for peak oil, taking the message outside of ‘green’ circles, permaculture, and the oil depletion protocol.
Crude oil resource estimates tend to diverge to widely different values as the production curve gets close to peaking.
