Other energy policies – Nov 8
Israel pushes to reduce oil dependency /
Africa over a barrel /
Nigeria’s oil curse /
Morales’ complete victory over Big Oil /
Ecuador on the edge
Staff
U.K. energy policy – Nov 8
UK ‘failed to save gas reserves’ /
Energy minister: Era of cheap energy over /
Carbon trading may need new emissions targets to go global
U.S. energy policy – Nov 8
Interview with Michael Klare – Iraq marks ‘turning point’ of U.S. empire /
Complacency feared as NG prices drop /
Lower pump prices fuel political conspiracy theories
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 8
Eating locally in Willits /
Learning how the desert bloomed /
Secret shame: I can’t ride a bike /
A growing trend: small, local and organic
2006 Boston ASPO: Peak Oil
“If you are going to take Vienna,” said Napoleon to his commanders, “then take Vienna!” And if you are going to be in the oil biz, then drill for oil! There is nothing quite like listening to the squeal of the drill pipe as the rock bit transitions from one pressure zone to another.
Also: Hubbert remembered, PO skeptics, Simmons and EROI.
U.S. elections – Nov 8
NY Times: Election’s over. Now to tackle the realities /
Environmentalists hopeful /
Real movement on global warming? /
Bush won’t change climate policy /
Dems to hammer ‘energy independence’ /
Democrats to target oil majors /
Oil and gas industry – heightened scrutiny /
Alternative fuels defeated in California /
LA Times against Prop 87
Ocean Circulation: New evidence – Yes, slowdown – No
Sometimes journalists are so focused on a particular story that they ‘hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest’. There was a perfect example of this last week in the Guardian reporting from the RAPID Climate Change conference in Birmingham (UK) which I was attending.
Climate – Nov 7
Economists study price of climate change /
Africans are already facing climate change /
Australia – worst drought in 1,000 years /
In ancient fossils, seeds of a new debate on warming /
Idea that forests are ‘carbon sinks’ going down drain
Climate policy – Nov 7
Climate change: threat and promise /
Canada public suprisingly ready to accept a ‘carbon tax’ /
Economist: Stern Review targeted at U.S. /
China to pass U.S. in 2009 in emissions
Environment – Nov 7
WWF Living Planet Report – decision time /
Dawn of the dead zones /
Wild seafood will disappear in 50 years /
China turns to salt water to ease drought
Letters to the editor: global warming
My account on the global warming presentations that were delivered at the recent ASPO conference in Boston generated quite a bit of e-mail. In fact, I received more e-mail from readers on the global warming article than I have received on any article I have ever written.
The ‘dark matter’ of American politics
The state of our physical world exerts a kind of hidden gravitational pull on the important issues of the day. And yet, to listen to the rhetoric of the most recent election campaign, you would conclude that the ecological underpinnings of our civilization are in such good condition that they require virtually no attention.
