Climate – Nov 3
Nordic nations sound alarm over melting Arctic
Australian researchers report on health effects of climate change
Tar sands growth makes meeting Kyoto targets less likely
Staff
Water – Nov 3
Tennessee town has run out of water
Peak water
Atlanta urinals, fountain run dry as UPS, Coke fight drought
How development and climate change are leading to water conflicts
Food & agriculture – Nov 3
Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
U.S. climate bill would pay farmers to store carbon in soil
Farmer Gene Logsdon goes to a French picnic
Fertilizer costs and production risk
Oil industry – Nov 3
Gov’t cannot halt oil incentives, judge rules
A break in Texas’s oil decline
Exxon’s crude nightmare
Is drilling method making people ill?
Economics: – Nov 3
France and UK to lay out eco-friendly tax cuts
The catastrophist view
Finance round-up from TOD:Canada
United States – Nov 3
US edges towards cap on greenhouse gases
Intvw David Sandalow (Freedom from Oil)
NY Times starting to do right by energy reporting
Oil prices – Nov 3
Citing oil prices, Asia starts reducing fuel subsidies
IEA’s Birol sees hazard in costly oil
Oil prices spur homes to mull gas switch
Geopolitics – Nov 3
Ex-U.S. officials play out mock oil spike crisis
U.S. OK’s Saddam law oil deals
Russian, China and Iran look ahead to a post-hydrocarbon world
Retired Army general says conflicts in Middle East could keep U.S. there for 50 years
Pricing the marginal barrel of oil: keeping the supply coming
NATO and energy security
Concerns about energy security have made their way to the agenda of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). But to ensure energy security we are now risking global security.
DOE publishes poster: “Peak Oil – the Turning Point”
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) recently made available on its website a large poster explaining peak oil. Most of the text is reproduced here.
Total boss on why oil production will never top 100 mb/d
Christophe de Margerie has a reputation for forthright views and blunt speaking, but this week the chief executive of Total excelled himself by dismissing the IEA’s oil production forecasts as unrealistic, while coining an aphorism worthy of Donald Rumsfeld.
Bartlett talks to the House about peak oil
The indefatigable Congressman from Maryland gives another educatioinal talk to the House, touching on M. King Hubbert, energy bills before Congress and the Chinese response to peak oil.
