Fresh approaches to economics – Jan 9
Nate Hagens: evolution, addiction and economic demand
Joshua Farley and ecological economics
Carbon quota an eerie echo of Technocracy
Staff
Grim – Jan 9
New Year’s dissolution: Surrender vs giving up
The Shell Game: page-turner on peak oil, 9/11
Dvorksy: The Amish and collapse fetishism
The emotional scientist & melting models
Peak oil and the financial markets: A forecast for 2008
Most financial forecasts do not recognize the systematic bias that is now entering the financial system, because of limited oil supply. They also do not recognize the risk that comes from the interconnectedness of the system, that is now increasing because food is being used for fuel, and securities are more complex.
Peak oil confusion
If antagonistic commentators actually understood what they were talking about, it might help focus the debate about the liquid fuels problem facing large oil consumers now and in the future.
Peak oil – Jan 8
US News & World Report spotlights The Oil Drum
Richard Heinberg radio interview
Al Jazeera on peak oil: ice-skating in the desert
The Star on Post Carbon Toronto
ASPO-Australia call for petrol rationing
Howstuffworks improves peak oil coverage
Peak oil and the Australian army
Yergin: $100 oil ‘tells a lot of what’s going on in the world’
Modelling biofuel production as an infectious growth on food production.
I’m coming to the view that biofuel growth is by far the greatest near-term challenge arising from the plateauing of global oil supply that we have experienced over the last two years.
A quantitative assessment of future net oil exports by the top five net oil exporters
What really matters to oil-importing countries is world net oil export capacity, and we are deeply concerned that the top five net oil exporting countries, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Norway, Iran and the UAE (United Arab Emirates), collectively accounting for about half of current world net oil exports, in aggregate are going to show an ongoing decline in net oil exports, continuing an aggregate net export decline that began in 2006.
The peak oil debate and oil companies
Instead of wasting time on who did what and why, we should concentrate our efforts on contributing to better understanding of future realities. We should move from controversy to acceptable consensus, from confrontation to cooperation, and from secrecy to transparency.
The Year in Review
The most interesting aspect of oil’s 57 percent price increase in 2007 is that it was caused by supply, demand, some speculation and a weakening dollar for there was no new oil-related geopolitical crisis nor a production-damaging natural catastrophe all year.
The services we seek
It is only half a discussion to talk about the things we’ll have to give up after peak oil and not about the ways in which we’ll obtain the services those things represent.
Peak oil – Jan 4
Vaitheeswaran vs Hirsch
Resource wars? A debate
Guardian on peak oil
Saudi Arabia: An attempt to link oil discoveries, proven reserves and production data
Medicine at the crossroads of energy and climate change
If medicine would regard peak oil as likely to occur within 12 years, in line with most predictions, then it will choose strategies which automatically address climate change as well. If the health care industry fails to lead, it will suffer the draconian consequences of having ignored the driving forces of the opening decades of the 21st century.
