Climate Policy – Nov 21
Greenhouse masses
More paying for ‘carbon neutrality’
China shifts to support a Carbon Tax
US scorns French ‘polluter pays’ tax proposal
Climate change means big business for reinsurers
Year: 2006
The peak oil crisis: picking the peak
It is not much of leap to believe that CERA is coming under heat from those who recognize that a bad call on peak oil will be devastating. This CERA report, which is obviously an attempt to defend their position, may be a sign that the message of peak oil may just be getting through to the corporate world.
Global copper thefts on rise
Thieves target wind farms for high-cost copper cables
Australia: High-voltage copper theft strands commuters
South Africa: Copper theft causing chaos
Copper thieves strip Italy in “red gold” rush
Canada: Despite the dangers wire theft continues
UK: Theft causes widespread blackout
Micronesia: A new type of crime rises
A Tale of Four Predictions – Hubbert, Deffeyes, Yergin & Jackson
According to the EIA the world through August 2006 has produced roughly 100 million fewer barrels of crude + condensate than if we had simply maintained the December 2005 production level. This is consistent with the Hubbert/Deffeyes model. It is not consistent with the Yergin/Jackson model.
Food & agriculture – Nov 20
Ethanol driving up meat prices
L.A. urban farmers plow new fields
A locally harvested menu takes some legwork
Grandma’s Veggies May Have Been More Nutritious
Peak oil – Nov 20
Vintage Kunstler talk and interview
TOD’s November peak oil update
Exxon retiree seeks debate on peak oil & warming
On CERA: Even if the optimists are right…
Environment – Nov 20
Taking On Goliath (gas industry) in the West
China’s Yellow River in crisis
China’s environment dangerously degraded: official
Japan shrinks
Peak oil and U.S. cities
Progress report on the dozen or so U.S. cities that have passed peak oil resolutions or that are on track to do so.
Climate – Nov 20
Advancing deserts and rising seas
Longer, more expensive wildfire seasons
Diseases appear on rise with temperature
Climate change hits hard in the Australian outback
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 20
Crisis and Risk: Categories and Mental Maps
Coming soon: a green Bill Gates
Composting toilets of the South Pacific
Money Is Material
David Suzuki interview
Oil – Nov 20
Stanford plans to energize its oil department
Feeding frenzy for Africa oil fields
Cuban oil and ethanol could prosper
Venezuela bills $17.3 million in unpaid taxes
BP next in line as Kremlin targets oil companies
Environmental cost of Sweden’s imported food
One study concluded that local broccoli would cause 60% less greenhouse emissions. Another study calculated that 50 items from a supermarket travelled more in total than the distance from earth to moon.
