Shell-BP merger talk – Oct 31
Big oil may have to get even bigger to survive /
BP-Shell merger back on the cards /
Desperation may be heating this oil rumour
Shale and oil sands – Oct 31
TOD: Canadian oil sands production update /
Oil sands: Gargantuan destruction /
Coaxing oil from huge U.S. shale deposits /
Shell is going to the wall for oil
Grain Drain: Get Ready for Peak Grain
Now’s the time to brace yourself for major price hikes in food, as peak grains join the lineup of lifestyle-changing events along with peak oil and peak water.
Reactions to the Stern Report
How climate change is revolutionizing economics /
The approaching storm: economists have seen it for years /
Fossil fools: OPEC, Australia and USA say global warming doesn’t exist /
OPEC says British climate change report “unfounded” /
UK Insurance Journal on the Stern Report
Solutions & sustainability – Oct 31
NY Times on Bioneers /
Live from Pop!Tech: Live green or die /
Slow Food movement has global outreach /
Coming to a theater near you: carbon-neutral movie /
New book “Energy: use less, save more” /
Greening the planet, one backyard at a time
Climate policy – Oct 31
“The Great Warming” – movie review /
Climate research center’s oversight up for bidding /
California: Schwarzenegger, Angelides both profess to lean green /
Scientists, American public disagree sharply over global warming /
New culprit in climate change? Try airlines
NZ energy minister: ‘the end of cheap oil’
Whether conventional oil production will peak in the next year, or the next decade or a decade or two later, is moot. But it will peak and, in policy terms, the timeframe is short…
The Government believes the more serious and more immediate problem is climate change, and that is why we as a nation need to actively reduce the greenhouse gas emissions produce.
Biofuels: A Disaster in the Making
Why is a union of NGOs, Indigenous Peoples Organizations and farmers’ movements calling for the suspension of biofuel subsidies?
Stern report: the key points
Dangers, recommended actions and economic impacts.
Stern figures don’t add up for world’s poor
Christian Aid today broadly welcomed the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, but warned that its conclusions would still expose millions of poor people to an unacceptably high risk of disease, drought and famine.
2006 Boston ASPO: global warming
The first evening of the ASPO-USA conference kicked off with …the subject of global warming (GW). Why global warming? Because it is what you get when you burn up lots of fossil carbon-based fuels and load the atmosphere with otherwise excess levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). GW is the other side of the coin of Peak Oil.
Drastic action on climate change is needed now – and here’s the plan
It is a testament to the power of money that Nicholas Stern’s report should have swung the argument for drastic action, even before anyone has finished reading it. He appears to have demonstrated what many of us suspected: that it would cost much less to prevent runaway climate change than to seek to live with it.
