(One part of) A unified climate/energy agenda
How can green groups unify their message on climate/energy? What kind of agenda could they all get behind?
David Roberts
The Right to Pursue Powerdown: Seeking alternative lifestyles post-peak
What legal obstacles might prevent us from pursuing personal powerdown strategies and how might we change them?
Pope calls energy alternatives a source of peace
In an annual message for peace, Pope Benedict XVI strongly emphasized a theme rarely taken up in his nearly two years as pope: what he called the “ecology of peace,” the idea that protecting the environment and finding alternative energy sources could reduce conflict.
Exxon’s energy outlook – Dec 13
“By 2030, energy demand will increase by about 60% compared to 2000. …The global energy mix will look very similar 25 years from now. Oil, gas and coal will be predominant. Resources are adequate to support global demand growth.”
Unconventional war strategies
The war in Iraq has damaged the U.S. in many ways, both economic and political, but national debt and depletion of energy resources have the potential to destroy the nation. [To recover, the U.S. must] get its monetary and energy policies straightened out.
Climate science – Dec 13
Warmest year in Netherlands in 300 years
Arctic ice could disappear in summer by 2040
Greenhouse effect could cause a space problem
Hydrate deposits may be more unstable than thought
Small nuclear war could lead to cooldown
A small-scale, regional nuclear war could disrupt the global climate for a decade or more, with environmental effects that could be devastating for everyone on Earth.
Climate policy – Dec 13
Penalties of acting alone stall effort on climate change
Business & the the cost of an overheated planet
Climate change catching voter attention
Wall Street eyes heart of darkness: global warming
Biofuels – Dec 13
Biodevastation, hunger & false carbon credits
Biofuels seen as a luxury China cannot afford
Sun worship – advantages of biomass
South Africa: Biofuels ‘could drive up staple food price’
Oil and Iraq – Dec 13
PSAs and Iraqi oil
ISG report: Has the Empire really failed?
The Baker Boys: stay half the course
Russia – Dec 13
Russia gets tough on energy sales to Europe
U.S. senator urges use of NATO defense clause for energy
The KGB’S great power-grab
$20bn gas project seized by Russia
Peak oil – Dec 13
Coming soon – Escape from Suburbia!
Review – New Peak Oil Film “Crude Impact”
Interview with James Howard Kunstler
Elephants and quagmires: PO & the Bush denial
The foundations of peak-oil doomerism
