Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Jorge Salazar There’s a colossal misperception that if you bike to work once a week and recycle your garbage, then global warming will be fixed up. The problem is that, even if everyone did that, the attempt to stop global warming would fail by a factor of, oh, roughly of 100.
“We may be at a point of peak oil production. You may see $100 a barrel oil in the next two or three years.”
The NYC Peak Oil Meetup forged ahead with its campaign to educate the public in basic farming skills, undeterred by the fact that the meeting was held in the belly of that most unnatural beast, Midtown Manhattan.
Edible forests /
Environmentalism can help economy /
On Earth Day (beyond small solutions) /
Deep-fried America (hope on global warming)
Missing DOE report on peak oil and oil shale reappears /
Simmons: global energy war could happen over oil /
The “Hot” War: in business at the front line /
Are commodity prices threatening energy investments? /
Peak tires
What’s up with oil, gasoline prices? /
CBS: Making sense of the oil mess /
Profits, not crude oil prices or ethanol are driving pump price spike /
Proposed windfall profits tax would finance alternatives and efficiency
Venezuela: turning off the taps to U.S. /
The axis of oil: China and Venezuela /
Rebel attack threatens government in Chad /
UK protectionism threatens European gas supplies (Gazprom)
Sweden goes for green as Nordics mull energy future /
Coal-to-diesel breakthrough could cut oil imports /
Energy news from Australia /
Gulf production: plenty of repairs still to go /
Qatar to boost oil output, plans investment abroad
The question of when oil production will peak (some analysts even say it has) is a highly uncertain one, but it can no longer be safely assumed that there is plenty more, at an affordable price. Australia must urgently assess the full extent of its oil vulnerability, across all industries and sectors. [Important editorial from one of Australia’s most influential newspapers]
Brace for $100-a-barrel oil – and the sacrifices required to put in place a national policy for energy alternatives. The world is nowhere near running out of oil soon. But there is a general agreement that it’s close to reaching peak oil production.
The world needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by a factor of two in the next 40-50 years. At the same time, there will be an increase in demand in energy by a factor of two. All together, our energy intensity has to go down by a factor of four.
Global warming threatening Bangladesh’s coast /
Nova on “Dimming the Sun” /
Dust storms and pollution force Beijing to go greener /
Soil scientist: The ground we walk on – it’s part of global warming /
Science magazine: Stand by for a warmer, but not scorching, world
