The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis
By promoting biodiesel as a substitute, we have missed the fact that it is worse than the fossil-fuel burning it replaces
George Monbiot
Climate change – Dec 7
Special issue of Business Week on climate change /
Warming effect in a world without snow /
Emissions don’t respect borders /
U.S. climate official’s work is questioned /
US facing pressure to sign up to future climate protocols /
Global warming cartoon /
Peak oil – Dec 7
Peak Oil and the Philosophers Stone (psychology of PO /
Australia broadcast on the “Real oil crisis” /
NZ Green Fitzsimons: Surely the time is now? /
Kunstler: Uncharted territory /
Peoria teachers examine PO /
Monbiot: The most destructive crop on earth is no solution to the energy crisis /
Peak Oil hits the hill /
Ruppert vs Corsi on PO and abiotic oil [canceled]
The Impact of Additions to Strategic Petroleum Reserves on World Oil Demand
The planned increases and start-up of Strategic Petroleum Reserves worldwide will be a significant source of demand for oil over at least the next several years – in the range of at least (conservatively) 300,000 barrels per day and possibly (probably) significantly higher, to 1,000,000 bpd (or even higher).
Money and energy: the map is not the territory
The map is not the territory. To any thinking person this statement is axiomatic. But, an important corollary is more difficult to discern, namely: Money is nothing more than the right to command energy to do what you want it to do.
Kinsale Energy Descent Action Plan – Online
Perhaps the world’s first local action plan intentionally designing a way down the oil peak is now available online. It should provide great inspiration for other local Peak Oil initiatives. [updated]
Final communiqué: “The human right to renewable energy”
Energy is the fundamental prerequisite of every life. The availability of energy is a fundamental and indivisible human right.
Peak Oil: a Non-event?
The peak of world oil production, in itself, could be a non-event. It is not so much the peak of production that we should be concerned with as the decline of production following the peak.
Politics & economics – Dec 5
New era of energy for tribes /
Iraq: so much oil, and so little /
Penn. Gov. promotes energy plan to cut oil imports /
Rising energy prices impact small busines /
Kurdish oil deal shocks Iraq’s political leaders /
Iran oil industry ails as minister spat drags on
Environment – Dec 5
China: boom or boomerang? /
What planet are you on, Mr Bush? (and do you care, Mr Blair?) /
Eco-literacy and America’s ‘nature-deficit disorder’ /
On climate change, a change of thinking /
Climate Indymedia is born
The Illusive Bonanza: Oil Shale in Colorado
Why oil shale is unlikely to become a major supplier of liquid fuels.
Environment – Dec 4
Protesters from 30 countries unite to fight global warming /
Climate change – have a look at 2100 scenarios /
The climate in Montreal /
China urges U.S. to join Kyoto treaty
