The larder is almost bare
After four consecutive meagre harvests, the result of heat waves, droughts and pestilence,the world’s stockpile of grain is perilously low. Is it a harbinger of ‘gastronomical Armageddon?’
Campbell: Peak Oil in 2008
Colin Campbell and the Uppsala Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group has now made the 2004 upgrade of the peak oil model. The peak is moved from 2010 to 2008
Oil: Never Cry Wolf—Why the Petroleum Age Is Far from over
An argument against the imminent peaking of oil from Science Magazine.
Oil prices gushing out of our control, says Opec
THE producers’ cartel that governs world oil supplies last night admitted it had lost control of the latest price rise as oil bubbled back up to near-record highs.
Douglas Westwood newsletter on peak oil
In our
view,
the recent high prices are just a practice run. The following is
drawn from
our recent research reports.
Look forward to a darker world, ‘Global dimming’ may stop the Earth overheating.
It’s official: the world is getting darker. Scientists are now agreed that as cloud cover and particles in the atmosphere increase, the amount of radiation reaching us from the Sun is falling.
End of Cheap Oil (excerpt)
Think gas is expensive now? Just wait. You’ve heard it before but this time it’s real. We’re at the begining of the end of cheap oil.
So why wouldn’t oil prices rocket?
The last “super giant” oilfield (more than 10 billion barrels) was discovered 40 years ago; the last American refinery was built 25 years ago; each successive American “driving season” guzzles more gas than the last.
Jurassic Park, Pseudo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib Part One
Some interesting realpolitik analysis and some philosophising against a peak oil back drop from ex-military man Stan Goff.
The Downward Trend Continues: Q1 Gas Production Survey Shows Massive 4.2% Decline
For the past several years, we have been publishing U.S. natural gas production surveys of publicly traded companies. The bottom-line story has remained essentially the same throughout this entire time: U.S. natural gas production is heading firmly downwards, despite a massive increase in drilling activity.
Hundreds of Welsh farmers still restricted by Chernobyl
EIGHTEEN years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, as many as 359 Welsh farms are still restricted in moving sheep as a result.
CERA examines possible global impact of China’s energy situation
“China’s growing weight in world consumption virtually assures a heavy long-term impact on energy prices, trade, and investment. In a decade, China has gone from self-sufficiency to being the most dynamic factor in the world oil market and one of the main elements in today’s $40-plus per barrel price,” said the report by Daniel Yergin and Scott Roberts.
