Year: 2011

Recognizing good science when you see it: climate change seen by depletion scientists

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Many people involved with peak oil studies don’t often interact with serious climate science and their view of it remains linked to the distortions presented in the mainstream media.

However, a good scientist can always recognize good science when he sees it. It has been the case of Colin Campbell, founder and honorary chairman of ASPO, who stated to the audience “I am convinced” after having heard the talk on climate change by Van Ypersele at the ASPO-9 Brussels conference. It was the same for several colleagues at a recent Basel energy conference after they heard the excellent climate talk by Ian Dunlop.

Deep thought – Dec 3

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– Powering the Future: A Nobel-Prize Winner Takes a Look Deep into the Energy Future
– Global warming, population growth, and food supplies: When will Americans finally “get it”?
– Feminism, Finance and the Future of #Occupy – An interview with Silvia Federici
– The Tailor of Ulm – a look at the Italian Communist Party

Climate – Dec 2

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– Nature Bombshell: Climate Experts Warn Thawing Permafrost Could Cause 2.5 Times the Warming of Deforestation
– An Arctic Wildcard Could Make the Climate Go Bust
– Changing climate of Republican opinion doesn’t agree with Tea Party
– Climate change: 2011 temperatures the hottest ever during La Nina

World made by hand

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Old school letterpress printers Hatch Show Print of Nashville, Tennessee have been in continuous business since 1879. They do everything by hand from carving plates to setting type to inking and then hand cranking their print rollers. Their business model offers an excellent example of the kinds of jobs of the future communities need in addition that go beyond food production and farming.

De-constructing the WSJ’s front page story, “U.S. nears milestone: net fuel exporter”

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The primary contributor to the US becoming a net exporter of refined products and the primary contributor to the decline in US net oil imports is declining consumption in the US, as the US and many other developed countries have been forced, post-2005, to take a declining share of a falling volume of Global Net Exports (GNE), which are calculated in terms of Total Petroleum Liquids.

The WSJ reporters are taking a symptom of Peak Exports, i.e., declining US oil consumption, and presenting it as a positive story.

ODAC Newsletter – Dec 2

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Evidence that the oil price is killing the economy came by the tanker-load this week. The FT reported that the cost of oil imports to the EU has increased from $280bn in 2010 to $402bn this year. Meanwhile the newly created Office of Budget Responsibility for the UK named oil prices as a key factor in a drastic downward revision of its economic and fiscal outlook released this week…