Food & agriculture – Apr 22
Michael Pollan on the farm bill: “You are what you grow”
Agriculture and climate change in the Philippines
Staff
The American Petroleum Institute on peak oil
The API considers “Peak Oil theory” to be bunk. Yes, they believe that Yergin is more credible than Simmons. As far as dealing with potential supply shortfalls? They don’t believe that we are facing any potential supply shortfalls.
The looming oil crisis could arrive uncomfortably soon
Forecasts of peak oil production have ranged from Thanksgiving weekend 2005 to somewhere beyond 2050. But at the annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) in Long Beach, California, early this month, the latest answer emerged: World oil production could stop growing as early as 2020–too soon to avoid a crisis–or it could hold off until 2040.
Energy producers – Apr 20
Iraq may hold twice as much oil
Jerome a Paris is dubious
Bering Sea likely rich in hydrates
U.S. – Apr 20
NY governor Spitzer promotes clean energy, minus ethanol
Doing right thing isn’t easy, even for those who want to (U.S. attitudes)
Dodd favors corporate tax for emissions
Nuclear – Apr 20
What’s behind the red-hot uranium boom
How uranium depletion affects the economics of nuclear power
Eye on Iran, rivals pursuing nuke power: report
Biofuels – Apr 20
Strife over biofuel plantations in Uganda
UC, faculty reach deal on biofuels institute
Ethanol policy divides Latin America
Biofuels and the war on oil
Climate – Apr 20
World needs to axe greenhouse gases by 80%
Climate change affects women more than men
Australia’s drought linked to global warming
Global warming swelling insurance risk
The Nation special issue on climate crisis
United States – Apr 20
Byron King: The California oil industry
Trans-American sources of electricity
Green utilities are growing, but they need to grow faster
Growing number of Americans see warming as leading threat
Asia – Apr 20
Massive Chinese effort to train geologists
China vs. Earth
Climate change will devastate South Asia
Peak oil – Apr 20
Hirsch: Recent forecasts of peak oil production
Swedish study: peak oil by 2018
Bakhtiari: The Century of Roots
“Saudi Arabia has peaked…” [futurology]
Petroleum Institute reaches out, discusses PO
Ig Nore Ad Vice
Albert Bates, guide for our post-petroleum, globally warmed future
“We have an individual preparedness to be concerned with, and that involves securing a supply of food, water, shelter and other basic needs for yourself and your immediate community. And then we have a larger social preparedness, without which there is no hope for the individual to survive.”
