UK floods – Jul 24
Power cut threat eases as flood defences hold
Rainfall changes linked to human activity
Brown: UK must adapt to climate change
We must face up to the flooding, not flee to the sun
Staff
The free energy delusion
Peak Energy seems to have brought with it Peak Fantasy. It has kept us in a state like little children believing that anything is possible if only we just believe.
Peak tech?
Go anywhere in America … and one expectation is pretty universal: that technology will only bring us more wonders and miracles, and it will certainly save-the-day where our energy problems are concerned.
Peak Oil Review – July 23, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective. Includes coverage of the National Petroleum Council (NPC) report.
United States – July 23
NY Times on Cheney task force: How the energy dice were loaded
Veteran House Democrat guards turf on energy
Record failures at oil refineries raise gas prices
LA Times:
No to nukes
Peak Oil – July 23
Bartlett and Udall on the NPC report
Colorado state geologist: Increased global demand for energy and mineral resources
Interview with Jeffrey Brown
ODAC News
The seven habits of highly subversive people
Habit #1. Think
Habit #2: Understand the big picture, the global supply chain of everything that you touch
Habit #3: Fix, make or bake stuff yourself
Habit #4:
Know your porn so that you can understand how you are being told what to desire
Economics – July 22
Life without goods made in China
Developed world ‘having second thoughts’ about globalisation
Welcome to Richistan, USA
Oil industry – July 22
Galileo challenges satellite navigation firms (a more accurate look at oil reserves?)
ConocoPhillips chief urges govt-industry cooperation
Shell president urges more drilling
Petroleos de Venezuela may make shoes, build ships, grow beans
Facing the Hard Truths about Energy – the NPC report, commented
Extensive commentary on the National Petroleum Council’s report on energy supply. The report is a mixed bag in absolute terms but a real step forward in political terms. We should definitely use it in the public debate, with regular use of the phrase “Even the industry now acknowledges that…
No warranty express or implied
Perhaps opinions on global warming and other critical ecological issues from such environmental savants as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Fred Singer, Sean Hannity and the George C. Marshall Institute ought to bear a label explaining that these opinions come with no warranty express or implied.
Jack of all trades, mistress of none
Almost everyone in the peak oil and climate change movements is operating outside their fields. It is the disease of new fields and new realities – everyone is stretching themselves out of their natural range. And in many cases, I think that’s good.
