The coming resource wars
In a major London address, British Defense Secretary John Reid warned that global climate change and dwindling natural resources are combining to increase the likelihood of violent conflict over land, water and energy.
M. King Hubbert’s Lower 48 Prediction Revisited
How accurate has the Hubbert Linearization technique been in predicting post-peak cumulative Lower 48 oil production? What can the Lower 48 model tell us about the future of world net oil export capacity? Finally, we have a recommendation, a fundamental shift in US tax policy.
Solutions & sustainability – Mar 7
Can our way of living really save the planet? /
Sustainability – at the tipping point? /
On the horizon: charge! (the humble battery) /
‘Green’ chemists swap oil for renewable alternatives /
Chew Magna: Is this greenest village in Britain? /
Is more better?
Politics & economics – Mar 7
Opec accuses Bush of threatening energy security /
Harvard ponders energy futures /
Divers work the Gulf floor to undo what hurricanes did /
Nigerian oil crisis spreads from Shell to Chevron /
Nigeria seeks China arms to secure oil
Planning for the future of farming
California farmland faces threats from development at the same time food security is threatened by global energy descent.
Guns and sunshades to rescue climate
Is there a silver bullet that can help us to limit the amount of climate change? Some such “silver bullets” aim to scrub carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, some to cool Earth directly by veiling it; others are yet more radical.
Peak oil – Mar 7
Sustainable fossil fuels (Dr. Mark Jaccard) /
Tragedy prompts personal peak oil website /
NZ branch of ASPO started /
The Oil Drum empire expands to the UK /
Ex-CIA head and environmentalists agree on no-oil thinking /
Revisiting the Olduvai Theory /
Peak Oil becoming de facto /
Poster child of the collapse /
An energy Pearl Harbor?
Other energy – Mar 7
Lovins: Winning the oil endgame (talk) /
The real cost of electricity /
Gov. Schweitzer’s coal-to-fuels program: What you didn’t hear on ‘60 Minutes’ /
Life in a grass house (the viability of switchgrass) /
Kuwaiti MP demands truth on Kuwaiti oil
Environment – Mar 7
You’re a good man, Lester Brown (interview) /
Anaesthetist turned climate change expert on Radio NZ /
Antarctic ice sheet losing mass /
White House spin reaches science research
Another look at near-term oil supplies
How the predictions of Cambridge Energy Research Associates are faring thus far based on 2005 production figures.
North Carolina peak oil conference
Triangle conference on peak oil and community solutions to be held March 25 at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
US: Army War College on energy security
An overview of US and international energy policy, including the prospects for an economy based on renewable energy, the security problems likely to result from tightening oil supplies, and a possible basis for making the transition to alternatives.
