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Antarctic air is warming faster than rest of world /
China grapples with growing water shortages /
Soil crisis is holding back African recovery /
Interior Department spins wetlands data /
New NASA policy backs free discussion by scientists /
Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble /
Global warming’s cost to Canada /
Environmental restoration in the age of climate change
Oil heads toward $70, with potentially grave consequences for global economy /
Energy policy a contradiction in Bolivia /
Venezuela takes on ExxonMobil /
CSM commentary: Iran’s plan to weaken the dollar will fail /
Petroleos Mexicanos: private funds needed to bolster output /
LaDuke: Three Affiliated Tribes at a crossroads: Which energy path?
Peak Sugar! /
Peabody Energy, largest coal company, thinks ‘coal is the future’ /
Deffeyes visits Alaska /
Peak opportunity! Earth liberation and the oil endgame
“Platts Inside Energy Extra” daily newsletter reports the president as regretting his early policy decisions on global warming and energy.
Americans at “tipping point” about energy – poll /
Yankelovich on tipping points in “Foreign Affairs” /
Whipple: Gas prices rising! /
Bulls from the sea: ancient oil industries
Iranian commander warns against threats to Iran nuclear sites /
Exxon’s new CEO: the new face of an oil giant /
Can we afford to go nuclear? (UK) /
Companies going green with energy alternatives /
Senate Foreign Relations Cmte: “The hidden cost of oil”
Toll for driving in downtown San Francisco? /
The Meatrix II /
Delaware Valley officially plans for post-peak /
The American Prospect special issue on “Green economy: after oil”
Canadian tar sands: the good, the bad and the ugly /
Orion interviews with Kunstler /
Global Public Media: Jan Bosak, Ray Anderson, Simmons, Ireland and PO /
La Fin Du Petrole (Oil No More) on Australia TV April 1 /
Recent PO publications in Dutch
Gordon Brown and the carbon cop-out /
Wired interviews Elizabeth Kolbert /
Books, films and a slick ad campaign make global warming the topic du jour /
Was confusion over global warming a con job? /
In the world’s slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide
Big Oil’s big windfall (inadvertent subsidies) /
Pentagon seminars seek solutions to U.S. oil ‘addiction’ /
Biotech crops will hurt family farmers and deepen the energy crisis /
Agriculture interests push ambitious renewable-energy goal /
Daylight Savings – A drop in the Oil Drum? /
New fuel economy rules issued to auto industry
The global oil disaster scenario /
Global Public Media: Savinar, Maori Party, Bartlett, Cooke, Wright, more /
When will peak oil tip? (from backwardation to contango)
Suppose that availabilty of oil is going to decline to levels far below those of today. The question is, so what? The US has enough easily accessible coal to supply hundreds of years of consumption at current rates, and the same is true of the rest of the world.
