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Michael Vickerman There has been some discussion in various Peak Oil circles suggesting that the amount of global petroleum available for export to other nations may have peaked late last year. But you’d never know that moment had passed from looking at EIA’s data.
By 2008 there is a very good chance the reality of peak oil will be widely recognized and will be causing such economic hardships that politicians can neither ignore nor pretend a cure with yet another meaningless “energy bill.” If this is indeed the case, by 2008 ways to mitigate the effects of declining oil supplies could become the central issue of elections in America and around the world for many decades to come.
People are finally starting to take to the streets to protest climate change. But for those who won’t or can’t do that, there are plenty of other actions you can take now to damp down climate change.
California is set to introduce tough new legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions under a deal reached by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As energy prices soar and violence convulses the Middle East, the peak-oil movement — an unlikely alliance of geologists, physicists, oil industry consultants and environmental activists — is winning converts. Peak-oil ideas are bubbling up from scientific journals and offbeat Web sites, much the way warnings of global warming did a decade ago. For the first time, the peaksters have begun to grab the attention of Washington and Wall Street. (excerpt)
Ancient heat wave may be wave of future
Devastation of an atoll
Feedback loop caused by methane
Caribbean ‘faces stormier future’
Scientists fear global meltdown
Von Hoffman: Honey, we killed the planet
BBC series on peak oil starts Sept 4
Entrepeneur T.J. Rodgers on solar & peak oil
Will the end of oil be the end of food?
Peak oil and permaculture
Steep decline in UK oil production (2)
McKibben: On a global-warming march
GW impacts on World Bank programmes
Investment & abrupt climate change
UK climate change protesters feel the heat
UK conservatives push market approach on climate
When genetically modified plants go wild
Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’ seeds company
Grist gets hungry (3)
New books tells us where our food comes from
Kitchen stories – a craving for fellowship
NYT: Fill up on corn if you can
NASA joins Brazilian biofuel effort
Rapier: Energy balance of ethanol versus gas
Will putting in fluorescent light bulbs and starting a window herb garden really help you if there’s a crash? Here are some nitty gritty suggestions for Peakniks…
Last week, Shell’s US President John Hofmeister came to Cleveland as part of a US tour to offer Shell’s perspectives on national energy security.
