Transport – Feb 12
Love miles (Sharon Astyk on air travel)
Drop in gas use is decades away: automakers
In Congress, a shift over fuel economy
Swiss Greens attack four-wheel drives
Gas prices are going up again
Staff
Coal to liquids – Feb 11
Biggest Chinese coal mining company plans huge coal to liquids programme
Governor calls for CTL plant funding
Victorian Minister meets Anglo on venture
Geopolitics – Feb 11
Qatar ‘to consider selling gas in euros’
Accords likely as Putin visits Saudi Arabia
N.Korea strives to win energy
Arab nuclear ambitions stir arms race jitters
How close is Iran to a nuclear bomb?
Oil industry – Feb 11
Russian about going nowhere
Venezuela tries to attract nore oil rigs
Shell commercial: No easy oil any more
Oil companies open up at CERA conference
Exxon Mobil warms up to climate issue
Climate – Feb 11
CSIRO’s horror climate forecast for Australia
Reports on warming lag behind the science
The new statistical rhetoric of climate change
Activists
rising to the climate challenge
Climate Policy – Feb 11
Hot Topic
Inuit Accuse US of Destroying Their Way of Life
‘Doomsday vault’ to resist global warming effects
Bush Ripped on Global Warming
Angela Merkel — the new climate leader?
WSJ writes that gas taxes make sense
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 11
In Niger, trees and crops turn back the desert
A call for a green Enlightenment
Portland stares down global warming
Down and dirty: earthen floors
Coin in the fuse box
By subverting the feedback we need concerning global warming, peak oil and a host of other environmental problems, those engaged in this public relations game of confusion risk letting the equivalent of a house fire occur in the biosphere.
C2C – the Emerging Energy Technologies Summit
The conference was a good place to see what some of the more creative thinkers (the speakers include two Nobel Laureates) see as the technology to get us out of our current mess. (Detailed report)
Depletion – Feb 9
Norway falls to 5th place among oil exporters
Graph of Norway drop (new)
Mexico’s top oil field declining fast – Pemex
Cantarell decline – is peak oil correct?
CIBC no longer predicting $100-a-barrel oil soon
Oil industry – Feb 9
Exxon Mobil has no more doubts on warming
Aramco chief – make fossil fuels ‘cleaner’
Big Oil cautious about clean-energy spending
Science journals focus on energy
Coverage by science journals is both heartening and discouraging.
Science special: sustainability and energy
Nature special on the IPCC report
