Peak Oil’s theorists “extraordinary narrow research base”
An email from an economist expressing some reasonable concerns about the limited research available predicting or negating imminent oil peak.
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Fast Food World: Perils and Promises of the Global Food Chain (excerpt)
Q: Do you think that we have changed the carrying capacity of the earth through fossil fuels to the extent that we could not support the current population with organic agriculture free of synthetic fertilizers?
Toward A Global Energy Transition
The plan involves three interacting strategies. One is a subsidy switch, in which industrial countries would eliminate government subsidies for fossil fuels and establish equivalent subsidies for renewable, non-carbon energy technologies. Another is a clean energy transfer fund, which entails creating a pool of money on the order of $300 billion a year to provide renewable energy technologies to developing countries. The last one is a progressively more stringent fossil fuel efficiency standard that rises by 5% per year; its adoption, perhaps within the Kyoto framework, could be complemented with the emissions trading mechanism to help nations meet it.
Coal May Shine Again
US – When natural gas prices spike, coal begins to sparkle. Back in 1990, amendments to the Clean Air Act passed, and many environmentalists breathed easier. Toxic emissions would be drastically cut, and as a consequence, electric utilities began to increasingly rely on natural gas because of its low cost and emissions. Coal’s foes began numbering coal’s days
US Sec’y Abrahams in China: the Maneuvering Begins
Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said here Monday that China and the United States share broad prospects of cooperation in the field of energy.
China: Hungry for Power (Part 1)
Energy crisis threatens ‘world’s factory’
UK faces future without North Sea oil
North Sea oil, the precious resource that has contributed hundreds of billions of pounds to the UK economy, is slowly slipping into history — so should Britain panic?
U.S. regulators may look into Shell’s overstatement of oil reserves
Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s overstatement of its proven reserves of oil and natural gas by 20 percent may be enough to prompt an inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, an SEC spokesman said.
Bush, Oil & Iraq: Some Truth at Last
Here we have former US Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill disclosing that George Bush came into office planning to overthrow Saddam Hussein, and MSNBC polls its audience with the question, Did O’Neill Betray Bush?
Unity needed for Kiwi continuity
NEW ZEALAND – As this country continues hurtling towards the serious gas supply shortages predicted for 2005-06, commentators are hoping and praying for a less fractious and fragmented year than 2003.
AUSTRALIA – Hopes of $50bn gas sale
“The US have only very recently become open about their energy requirements, and some say it’s as big a crisis, or potential crisis, as during the oil shocks,” says Australian Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane.
UK trade deficit widens amid falling oil exports
The surplus on trade in oil fell to just £202 billion from £235m in October.
