Oil producers – Aug 30
Gadaffi scolds Libyans for reliance on oil
Chad orders foreign oil firms out
Bolivia’s Morales replaces head of state oil firm
Year: 2006
Climate – Aug 29
Washington state’s glaciers are melting
Warming might free methane in seafloor
Evidence of climate change in Sierras
Report from Costa Rica – rapid climate change
Cities in peril as Andean glaciers melt
Media & the web – Aug 29
Author of oil articles charged as spy in Sudan
Energy Bulletin interviewed
How Google Earth is changing science
Trainspotters of Google Earth
U.S. energy policy – Aug 29
Iraq commanders want renewable power
Californians weigh new tax on oil companies
Lugar: U.S. must break oil habit
Bush courts oil-rich Kazakhstan
Australian TV covers peak oil: “Running on empty”
One of the most doomerish pieces about peak oil to run on mainstream television. Interviews with Andrew MacNamara (MP-Queensland) and environmentalist Jeremy Leggett, as well as two oilmen.
Video and transcript available.
Peak oil – Aug 29
Heinberg on the Oil Depletion Protocol
Kurt Vonnegut’s apocalypse
Oil-driven energy era coming to end?
Skrebowski: oil crisis by 2010
Saudi oilfield of the future – Khurais.
Hydrogen to the rescue? Questions about Iceland’s sustainability
Iceland plans to be the first country to implement a hydrogen economy, taking advantage of its vast electric resources. However, sustainability is still wanting in this tiny, isolated island nation, despite its massive advantages over most countries. It cannot, at this time, free itself from the world oil economy.
Housing & group living – Aug 29
Flash! – communes on the rise again
Think small, think local (Earthaven)
Real estate: smaller to become better
Curbing the big, the bad, the ugly in L.A.
Climate change policy – Aug 29
California – the risks of going it alone
China ambivalent on global warming
Monbiot: don’t trigger another catastrophe with sulphate pollution
ASPO 5. Jeremy Leggett Intertwines Peak Oil and Climate Change.
This talk will look at peak oil in the context of climate change, the conflagration of two huge problems, what we might think of as the Two Great Oversights of our times.
ASPO 5. Skrebowski tells us there’s 1,500 days until the Peak, & closing thoughts on ASPO 5
Skrebowski: “Decoding the figures in the new IEA report is akin to decoding the Da Vinci Code. In my work I am not a pessimist, and I observe what oil companies do, not what they say.”
ASPO 5. Dennis Meadows – Peak Oil and Limits to Growth
‘Limits to Growth’ was criticised for predicting that oil would run out and for being wrong in that prediction. However, oil depletion is not mentioned once in the original 1972 report, this is a completely bogus criticism.
