Climate – Aug 22
Amazonian drought (clarifications) /
Rising Sea Levels Worry Floridians /
Ross Gelbspan interview
Year: 2006
ASPO 5. Robert Hirsch scares me out of my wits…
Bob Hirsch is the author of the deeply influential Hirsch report which has been referred to here on many occasions. I had really been looking forward to hearing him speak but found his talk hugely disappointing.
Peak Oil – Aug 22
Skrebowski in Australia: Petrol $2/l by Christmas /
New blog: Peak Oil Blues /
David Holmgren interview on the Heinberg-Holmgren speaking tour of Australia /
Peak Confidence /
Peak Oil Passnotes: Supply ‘Cushionitis’
Travel – Aug 22
Portland: Where the car is not king /
Airlines tremble at prospect of $100-a-barrel oil /
Scotland’s love affair with the motor car is waning /
California’s SUV Ban /
The future of travel: where do we go from here?
Biofuels – Aug 22
Interview: Robert Rapier on Vinod Khosla, Proposition 87, peak oil, and the need for transportation electrification / Indonesia counting on biofuel / Brazil’s road to energy independence /
Balkan biofuel could be on the horizon
The missing repertoire
The IPPR report presented a textual analysis of the kinds of language (‘repertoires’) used in the media when discussing climate… But there is a huge missing category… [t]hat category is the straight ‘It’s serious (and interesting) but don’t panic’ repertoire.
Oil industry – Aug 22
Trust eroding in oil pipelines close to home / Simmons: pipeline crisis ‘could halve flow of oil’ / BP denies it manipulated Alaska pipeline data / Exxon: oil, gas and that’s it / Oil prices ‘may retreat to $58 in 2008’ / Costs surge threatens Big Oil’s output plans
Climate change policy – Aug 22
Leading Canada Liberal proposes carbon tax /
Interview: Nancy Skinner, U.S. Director, The Climate Group / Limiting climate change: the neglected obstacle
Geopolitics – Aug 22
Energy crisis – the culprit is national oil companies & socialism [Not!] / Sino-Cuba energy relations raise concern in Washington /
Russian pipeline monopoly warns Lithuanian refinery of long shutoff / Bolivia suspends a takeover of oil and gas / Japan and China race for African oil
Cuba’s pathbreaking energy policies
As the age of oil ends, a society that clings to the social and economic institutions and practices of the early twenty-first century will go the way of North Korea. The lesson to be learned from these two Communist states is change or die. [Former Washington Post columnist von Hoffman jumps on the peak oil bandwagon.]
Solutions & sustainability – Aug 22
Fight or flight? / That’s enough oil – I’m going to make my own energy from now on / Meditations on deciding never to fly again / 3rd U.S. conference on peak oil and community solutions (Ohio Sept 22-24) /
APSO 5: Plan B – enabling relocalisation as a response to peak oil
CERA’s Rosy Oil Forecast – Pabulum to the People
CERA’s new report might be reassuring if they did not have a checkered forecasting record, and if its findings were not hedged six ways to Sunday.
