Russia – Nov 17
The uneasy Russia-E.U. energy relationship
Video: Sakhalin’s Black Tears
Head of Russian oil fund shot dead in Moscow
Recent assassinations shake confidence in Putin’s system
Food & agriculture – Nov 17
Eric Schlosser on America’s food industry and his new film
NYT: Why roots matter more (local food)
Research needed to balance food, energy needs
Australia importing grain – so they can export it
Peak Oil – Nov 17
Oil supplies? Don’t worry!
ImPOssible Mission
Marxist J.B. Foster cites peak oil
IHS data suggest Kuwaiti and global proved oil reserves significantly lower than BP estimates
A disservice to the world: CERA denies peak oil
It is inevitable that peak oil “theory” be attacked just as CERA and its clients are doing, precisely because peak oil is gaining credibility and cheap oil is gone forever.
Global oil production – “Rate of Conversion” is the key.
The ongoing discussions about “Peak Oil” have continually skirted the one unifying concept which addresses the reality about the (eventual) peaking of global liquids production.
Geopolitics – Nov 16
Abqaiq’s message to Washington
G20 to push to open up oil trade
Oil revenues fuel resistance to U.S.
Former CIA chief: ‘Oil dependence threatens US, Israel’
Climate Policy – Nov 16
Hydropower not so low-carbon
IEA’s Mandil – No magic bullet for carbon pollution
French promise revenge for not signing protocol
PM’s windy rhetoric denounced as a scare tactic
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 16
The Potential of Electrified Urban Rail and/or Electric Vehicles
Is CHP the future of home energy?
Making Mercedes in Ghana
UK shoppers dropping pounds from their waste
A bigger economy doesn’t buy happiness
Computer server farms increase efficiency
A green future for colleges
Climate Impacts – Nov 16
Uganda: ‘Return Our Forest’
Ailments Surge as Ozone Hole Widens
Australian drought: Goin’ Under
Warm weather wrecks bears’ winter slumber
Association for the Debunking of Peak Oil, part 2
A good many of the things that Mr. Esser [from CERA] said to the subcommittee of the U.S. Congress are technically correct… They are also part of the very intelligent discussion that occurs whenever a group of Peak Oil aficionados gets together. It is not as if CERA has some monopoly on the magic elixir of understanding oil depletion issues, or the secret-decoder ring without which all others are flailing about in the dark.
Does the peak oil “myth” just fall down? – our response to CERA
The first of a comprehensive and in-depth set of rebuttals to the CERA report from The Oil Drum.
Peak oil is simple
Perhaps in a perfect Platonic world of policy, a “peak oil is today” strategy would look different from [CERA’s] “peak oil in 2040” strategy. But back down here on earth, we’re stuck with the blunt instrument of representative democracy. Our choice is far closer to binary than most oil geeks are willing to acknowledge. The choice before us is: mobilize and start pushing, or don’t.
