The peak oil crisis: EIA — The greatest failure of them all?
By refusing to think, write, or warn about the realities facing this country’s energy supplies, they are doing a major disservice to the nation.
Tom Whipple
Solutions & sustainability – Dec 12
In praise of sweet darkness
Composting toilets offer solution to water, sanitation problems
How to give up cycling
Peak Oil to Peak Gas is a short ride
While Peak Oil is grudgingly accepted, at least to the extent that ‘After Oil’ is a buzzword in corporate planning and political policymaking circles; Peak Gas is an almost entirely unheard of and unwelcome spectre.
Climate – Dec 12
Climate change is killing the oceans’ microscopic ‘lungs’
Alps experiencing warmest time in 1,300 years
Climate change wiping out crops in Sri Lanka
Vast African lake levels dropping fast
North Pole ice could vanish by 2040
Homeowner’s Insurance and Fire Extinguishers
Self acknowledged "doomer" author writes, "despite all the fun you have trying to plumb our doomer souls, a more important discussion is why we prepare for a crash, not why we believe in one."
Australia: Common belief in climate change
In what’s believed to be a world first, 16 of Australia’s leading faith communities released a document on global warming.
Risks of exploiting low-quality sources of oil
Soaring oil prices and demands for energy security are boosting the attractiveness of low-quality sources of petroleum, such as tar sands and coal, at the risk of causing significant environmental damage and increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a new study.
Muzzling climate science – Dec 11
The Counterpurge (de-Stalinising the US energy complex)
Oil company money scandal at Nat’l Science Teachers Assn deepens
Climate scientist says the word ‘Kyoto’ barred
Lysenkoism
U.S.’s oil habit – Dec 11
Oil habit hard to break, experts say
UAE on Tom Friedman: Our reality, their spin
The mustache is the message
Bush to make energy a 2007 priority
Russia & China – Dec 11
Russian oil: a slippery substance
Russia to create giant company for oil and gas production at sea shelf
Shell offers to sell stake in Russian project to Gazprom
Chinese demand growth continues (for oil and everything else too…)
Biofuels – Dec 11
Liposuctioned fat could be bio-diesel fuel
Can biodiesel compete on price?
Grist biofuels series shifts into future tense
As alternative energy heats up, environmental concerns grow
Renewables – Dec 10
Democrats may give alt energy a new push
Discover: Living the good life without oil
Yergin: A great bubbling
