Drought and water wars – Oct 21
Georgia governor declares state of emergency due to drought
Drought-stricken Georgia says it will sue
Alabama’s long-running water war with Georgia heats up
NYT: The future is drying up
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Climate policy – Oct 21
Fight against coal plants draws diverse partners
Vancouver Sun: “we have to move carefully”
Artist Bateman: We need a carbon tax
Willits meets the S-curve
It has been a hard lesson: rational explanations of threats such as peak oil and climate change can only get one so far. People in any group or community adopt ideas at different paces based on their orientation toward change.
Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says new study
World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown.
The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its study in London today saying that global oil production peaked in 2006 – much earlier than most experts had expected. The report predicts that production will now fall by 7% a year.
Coal – Oct 19
Power plant rejected over CO2 for first time
Roderick Bremby is a hero
At the end of the climate policy tunnel, will the light be out?
The changing climate of coal (audios)
Population, health & pollution – Oct 19
Are boys an endangered species?
Mother fears ‘stinky neighborhood’ caused son’s cancer
Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls: study
China’s surplus of sons: Geopolitical time bomb
Harbor seals may help determine effect of eating toxic fish
Food & agriculture – Oct 19
Gene Logsdon: Big tractors and green hypocrisy
Cod ‘making a comeback’
Why food prices have risen in Saudi Arabia
Oil prices – Oct 19
Bears smell oil bubble as price soars
Saudi Aramco may miss production goals, says Simmons
Real reasons for $88 a barrel
$100 oil, here we come!
Rainsforests & oceans – Oct 18
The Amazon burns once again
The fight to save Congo’s forests
Callum Roberts on the future of the sea
Climate – Oct 18
Bleak U.S. “report card” finds warming Arctic
How can you predict global warming if you can’t predict rain?
Idaho water director sending early warning about next summer
Climate policy – Oct 18
Economic costs of climate change ‘will affect every American’
Corporations won’t lead the way on solving global warming
Think tank outlines cap-and-trade policy that can benefit low-income families, federal budget
Peak oil – Oct 18
Peak oil means peak economy – Hirsch (podcast)
Houston ASPO – report on the Workshop day
Deffeyes: perhaps five years left for ‘serious action’
