Energy policy – Aug 31
Lib Dems see zero-carbon Britain setting the global green agenda
Albania in throes of energy shortage
Ecuador: $350m to leave oil in the ground
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Planetary thinking – Aug 31
The nexus of water, energy and climate
Dirt isn’t so cheap after all
Humans now use 25% of the Earth’s productivity
Updating the book on global warming
What I thought were rather bold and revolutionary proposals in my book Heat don’t go nearly far enough. We need to start thinking on a different scale altogether. (Speech at the recent Camp for Climate Change)
Technology addicts
We become dependent upon technology and upon the system that provides it and the energy to run it. We forget how to do things for ourselves. …
Hello. My name is Dale, and I am a technology addict.
Keeping an eye on the peak oil gauge – Aug 30
Exhibit reminds us: “1973- Sorry, Out of Gas”
Global oil reserves up only 1% last year
This week in petroleum
Saudi Arabia – production forecasts and reserves estimates
USGS Greenland survey shows much lower resource potential
Oil industry – Aug 30
WSJ: Big questions for Big Oil
Exxon’s ex-CEO admits we need alternatives, but says there’s plenty of petroleum left
United States – Aug 30
Biden on energy and the environment
Heat stressing California’s grid
‘Immigrant paradox’: Come to the U.S., die younger
Porter ties withdrawal from Iraq to $9 gas
Monetary policy and weaseling out of debt
Geopolitics & oil – Aug 29
Abdul Bari Atwan on Al Qaeda, oil and the Middle East
Kazakhstan orders Eni to halt work on biggest field
Why fears of a U.S. slowdown aren’t weakening oil prices
Subprime crisis gives Opec dilemma
Transport – Aug 29
Hooky Bump’in, and other parasitic relationships
The green VW
Save the environment, work from home
The peak oil crisis: the quiet time
Beneath the radar screens there were a number of developments that could foreshadow important changes in our way of life, much sooner than we would like to think.
Venezuela — Aló Presidente!
Venezuela’s production has declined since 2000, and the country is home to the world’s largest unconventional resource under development, the Orinoco extra-heavy crude. A lot is at stake in Venezuela, so it is prudent to assess the risk there now and down the road. Do Venezuela’s policies affect the peak of global oil production?
The twelfth hour
For decades our collective conversation about the future has focused on claims that the eleventh hour has arrived and radical change is the only alternative to imminent catastrophe. Inevitably the peak oil situation has been portrayed in these terms.
