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Richard Bell Why should the United States, members of Congress asked, take any action on climate change when China and India weren’t doing anything about their CO2 emissions? One witness compared their attitude to the childhood lament, “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I’m going to go and eat some worms.”
Variety gives thumbs up to “Crude Impact”
Peak oil – Who to believe?
Review: “The Last Oil” Shock by David Strahan
Peak oil scenario paints frightening future
Strategic consumption: Changing the world with what you buy
Sustaining change from the middle ground
APPLE leader inspires others to help planet
Organic gardens vs. chem-fed lawns
Less carbon, more community
The transition to renewable energy
Exclusive: Report charges broad White House efforts to stifle climate research
Norway’s Lutheran Church calls for climate efforts
What Markey’s Select Committee could do about global warming
Why don’t you sequester some carbon today?
New Stern climate warning
Coastal mega-cities in for a bumpy ride
Tiny island with a global warning
How long will the poles stay frozen?
Global warming study warns of vanishing climates
New, previously unknown climate zones seen by 2100
Saudi king slams ‘illegitimate occupation’ of Iraq
Why is King Abdullah saying No to Bush’s dinner?
The Strait of Hormuz, Iran and the risk to oil
How to discuss nuclear energy reasonably
Env ministers: Nuclear energy ‘not the solution to global warming’
Iraq veterans contaminated by depleted uranium
Chinese biofuels expansion threatens ecological balance
Thailand looks to deadly nuts for biofuel
Ethanol boom a bust for ranchers
Brazil, Italy seek partnership on biofuel production
SF is first city to ban plastic shopping bags
Mercury in energy-saving bulbs worries scientists
Bill to ban regular light bulbs introduced in House
Reps. Roscoe Bartlett and Tom Udall will hold a new conference Thursday to discuss the release of an embargoed GAO report on peak oil. The report will reveal the U.S. is particularly vulnerable and the U.S. federal government is unprepared to respond to severe consequences from an increasing risk of significant disruptions to world oil supplies from peak oil and other factors.
As if gold weren’t bad enough, now they have found oil
Transparency urged in U.S. payments to oil producers
What’s happened to Iraq’s oil?
Sunni politicians critical of Iraqi oil law
Exxon sees technology, local needs as Mideast key
An attack could have cataclysmic implications for the region, for the world economy, and not least for the oil import-dependent and nearly bankrupt US.
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Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border
U.S. launches show of force in Persian Gulf
U.S. Navy: Iran did not fire at U.S. warship
Oil spikes more than $5
