Oregon vs global warming
Portland Oregonian: What you can do about a warming world
Eugene poised to join carbon war
Oregon Secty of State talks on global warming
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Business, economics and climate
Financial Times: Averting climate change
The Stern Review: critical notes on its abatement optimism
Energy firms accept regulation as inevitable
Emission credit market heats up
Climate policy – Nov 27
Self-preservation forcing wild species, businesses, planning officials to act
World’s largest science teacher’s organization to ignore climate change education?
Top court to hear emissions argument
Canada Liberals propose sweeping ‘green’ changes
Energy Mercantilism on the March
New Energy Mercantilism is the set of geopolitical phenomena emerging as nations realize that, in the future, there will not be enough energy to go around to sustain projected demand.
Caspian oil – Nov 27
Jerome a Paris: A primer on Caspian Oil
Caspian oil field to produce 25% more
Caspian Sea oil producers discuss establishing organization
Disneyland by the Caspian Sea
Latin America – Nov 26
Ecuador election: leftist economist vs banana baron
Venezuela’s costly policy of cheap gas
Erroneous Venezuela oil production figures?
Admiral Rickover: The future of fossil fuels
In 1957, U.S. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” delivered a startling speech on “Energy Resources and Our Future.” The speech prefigured the current peak oil analysis, calling our age the “fossil fuel age.” He warned that reserves are “likely to run out at some time between 2000 and 2050.”
Russia – Nov 26
Russia attacks the West’s Achilles’ heel
Putin issues veiled warning to east Europe
Europe backs down on the energy charter
Why Russia has a gas shortage
Peak oil – Nov 26
How to address peak oil skeptics
Friendly fire – the dark side of techno-fixes
Investment in oil E&P – an above-ground factor
How to prepare for peak oil and climate change (permaculture)
Biofuels – Nov 26
Datagro: Ethanol drives up food commodity prices
Grain-derived ethanol: the Emperor’s new clothes
Cellulosic ethanol reality check
Nuclear – Nov 26
Uranium mine blamed for high Aboriginal cancer rate
Uranium a peril among the Navajos
£7bn deal to harness Sun’s nuclear power
Aus. Opposition leader says nuclear power key to election
Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump faces new hurdles
Power Companies Order Up Texas Toast
On Tuesday, climate scientist James Hansen said that the world has less than a decade to take decisive action on global warming or risk tipping the planet towards catastrophe. ..The world may have ten years, but Texas only has six months to stop TXU from turning our climate to toast.”
