Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff U.S. panel backs data on global warming / Moms, guilt, and climate catastrophe / Reduce aviation’s expansion or give up on tackling climate change / Norway sees N.Sea as CO2 dump, but legal hurdles /
US: Surge of population in the exurbs continues /
Getting to the [climate change] holdouts
California highlights U.S. oil import dependence / Carnegie Mellon researchers like switchgrass /
EU in doubt over alternatives to oil / IEA: clean technology could cut world energy consumption in half / IEA: world not on course for sustainable energy / Coal in China / Age taking its toll on interstates
A Russian view of energy tensions /
Military move on Iran could triple oil price-Saudi /
Gas redistribution in Eurasia /
China’s first foray into Russian oil / Oil firms debate Gulf leases /
Exxon Mobil CEO calls for an end to ethanol subsidies
ASPO’s fifth annual gathering will showcase top oil depletion experts; governments, industry and media taking notice; new focus on dealing with dwindling supplies. July 18-19 in Pisa.
Friedman’s Addicted to Oil documentary this weekend on Discovery / Podcast – Kunstler: PO Impacts on Transportation and Cities / Michael Ruppert’s economic forecast / T. Boone Pickens on Charlie Rose / Yuba Gals “Peak Moment TV” on the road / James Schlesinger: Thinking seriously about energy and oil’s future
The biggest problem with our bounty of coal is not what it does to our mountains or the atmosphere, but what it does to our minds. It preserves the illusion that we don’t have to change our lives. Given the profound challenges we face with the end of cheap oil and the arrival of global warming, this is a dangerous fantasy.
A trip to the progressive city reveals why its citizens are leading the world in awareness of Peak Oil issues.
Heinz Center’s O’Malley explains how to fill gaps in environmental research /
Is Global Warming Fueling Western Wildfires? / Reading the Poles: Earth’s Ice in Jeopardy /
EU, US to Agree “Urgent” Action on Climate Change
Staniford: A Critique of the 2006 EIA International Energy Outlook /
Oil consumption seen soaring /
ASPO international conference in Pisa, Italy, July 18-19 /
Meacher: We Need A Change in Energy Policy As Well As in Government
The New Ethanol Future Demands a New Public Policy /
Elusive cornucopia: why it will be hard to reap the benefit of biofuel /
California sets “clean energy” oil tax on ballot /
Ship It, Ship It Good /
Club of Rome wants deserts to become source of renewable energy /
Nuclear Power: A Leap into the Dark Energy Chasm
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has urged newspaper editors to focus more attention on the depletion of the world’s oil reserves. In a June 17 speech Clinton said a “significant number of petroleum geologists” have warned that the world could be nearing the peak in oil production.
In the not-too-distant future, the big leadership of the world is going to awaken to the seriousness of what I have just told you about global warming in the previous few paragraphs. What do I mean when I say “big leadership”? I mean all of it, the top honchos, whether U.S. or Chinese or Russian or European, or whomever.
