Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Jorge Salazar The world needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by a factor of two in the next 40-50 years. At the same time, there will be an increase in demand in energy by a factor of two. All together, our energy intensity has to go down by a factor of four.
The outcomes of the UN’s deadline for Iran are considered by Peter Tertzakian, author of “A Thousand Barrels a Second.”
Global warming threatening Bangladesh’s coast /
Nova on “Dimming the Sun” /
Dust storms and pollution force Beijing to go greener /
Soil scientist: The ground we walk on – it’s part of global warming /
Science magazine: Stand by for a warmer, but not scorching, world
Is the world really starting to run out of oil? And would hitting a global peak of production necessarily spell economic ruin? Both questions are arguable. (Excerpts).
How’s this for nerve? The leader of a country that consumes more than 20 million barrels of oil a day is warning the leader of a country that consumes some 6.5 million barrels not to try to lock up world oil resources.
Prominent energy economist predicts inflation and/or recession on purely economic grounds – peak oil isn’t necessary to make his case. (excerpts)
Department of Defense and energy revolution /
Interview – SF peak oil resolution /
BBC: What is driving oil prices so high? /
Le Monde: Il faut préparer la “fin du pétrole” /
Peak oil in Switzerland /
PO interview in Wisconsin
Could Sweden become the OPEC-equivalent for bioenergy? /
Americans commute longer, farther than ever /
Wall Street Journal’s green auto coverage /
Australian’s fuel-from-plastic potential wasted
Gas prices – what’s the right strategy for the Dems? /
Conservative Cal: Getting serious about energy (takes an enemy) /
Chavez: oil will be destroyed if attacked /
Castro on energy /
Australian MPs in ‘back pocket’ of giants /
Get used to higher gas prices, Canadian PM says
Ask Umbra: Apocalypse 101 /
The emerging environmental majority /
Climate change will be significant but not extreme, study predicts /
UK’s Gordon Brown: ‘The environment must be centre of policy worldwide’ /
UK Tory leader pledges to firm up green credentials with carbon levy /
UK scientists fear new attempts to undermine climate action /
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog interviews Republican senators on global warming
Energy policy in America has suffered from big ideas. A step in the right direction is rejected because it is not a leap; the dream is for all problems to be solved at once or not at all.
Before the oil age comes to a complete close, let’s hope someone rehabilitates Jimmy Carter as one of the most prescient Presidents ever to hold the office. Congress might even rename an airport for him — just before it is shut down forever.
