Wildfires and climate – Oct 25

Wildfires – what to do
Reporters’ resources on wildfires

Fires in keeping with climate predictions
Climate change: Age of mega-fires
Global warming link to natural disasters
Mother nature’s revenge against human development
A taste of what’s to come

California’s age of megafires

Climate – Oct 25

IPCC climate guru Steve Running
Hansen: drought, flooding threaten Texas
Climate change will hurt New Mexico water supply

Warming could wipe out half of all species
Greenland’s ice sheet melts as temperatures rise
Expert: Health risks rise as Earth warms

The age of salvage societies

The Archdruid Report‘s exploration of possible societies of the deindustrial future moves from the scarcity industrialism of the near future to the salvage societies further out, when the natural resources that power industrialism have been exhausted but the embodied energy in the material legacies of the industrial world become a major resource.

Peak oil – Oct 24

Skrewbowski interview: 1200 days to peak oil
Case Western study: oil experts agree on 2010 peak oil
Chevron CTO says peak oil won’t be a disaster
Posters of peak oil future now online from Dynamic Cities
Report: ‘World at peak oil output’
Peak oil or peak emissions?
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