Coal – Dec 2
Australia: King coal under siege
Coal or happiness: you can’t have both
Can we lock greenhouse gases away in rocks?
The Southern Appalachians – victims of coal
Year: 2006
Climate – Dec 2
CO2 emission growth rates – doubled since 90s
Nepal’s farmers on front line of climate change
Global warming: worry, don’t panic
OPEC resurgent – Dec 2
US urges Opec not to cut production
Conflicting signal on need for deeper cut
Bodman on Africa and OPEC
OPEC expansion ups clout
OPEC and the West: Jerome a Paris asks who are our governments working for?
A troubled U.S. – Dec 2
U.S. Senator Reid to change U.S. energy plan
Energy industry: Regulate us
Shutdown of EPA libraries
US dollar: everybody’s problem
Stalled subdivisions – Kunstler’s prophecy come true?
Good forecasts/bad forecasts: how does the US DOE/EIA come out?
The US DOE/EIA doesn’t perform realistic analyses for the future production capabilities of countries. Their objective appears to be to provide happy projections that fit their assessment of future global consumption. (Several case studies provided.)
Food & agriculture – Dec 1
Father of modern arboriculture dies
Pfeiffer’s book on industrial agriculture
Livestock causes 1/5 of human-caused GHGs
BC’s first totally local winter restaurant menu
Ethanol skeptic sees painful realities ahead
Health – Dec 1
Will global warming release diseases from glaciers?
Analysis: Wealth brings new health threats
Cooling towers are a hotspot for evolving disease
Climate science – Dec 1
Deadly ocean burp
FAO: Livestock a major threat to environment
Massive ice shelf ‘may collapse without warning’
Reducing DoD fossil-fuel dependence
Conclusions of the report: “Barring unforeseen circumstances, availability concerns are not a decision driver in the reduction of DoD fossil-fuel use at present. However, the need to improve logistics requirements and military capabilities, and, secondarily, the need to reduce fuel costs, as well as providing a prudent hedge against a foggy future, especially in the Middle East and South America, argue for a reduction in fuel use, in general.”
Iran – Dec 1
Natural gas imports possible for Iran
Surprise: oil woes In Iran
China nearing deal to develop huge Iran field
Ireland & UK – Dec 1
Ireland ‘sleep walking’ to oil crisis
The black hole at the heart of the UK’s energy supply
Lovelock predicts Britain will triumph over global warming
Sprawl, and cities of the future – Dec 1
Kunstler: A reflection on cities of the future
Kunstler: Review of “Sprawl: a compact history”
Sprawl will stretch infrastructure – report
Sprawl wars: It doesn’t have to be so
