Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Jeremy Leggett Peak oil is no academic debate: the $100 barrel is a harbinger of the energy shortage to come. What do we do if the producers start keeping their fast-dwindling resources in order to power up their own fast-expanding economies? An oil shock then risks turning into an energy famine.
Climate change’s most deadly threat: drought
Skeptics insist humans not at fault
Warming may have caused salmon collapse
Australian PM: Farmers to adapt for climate change
USA grain exports – Where to, how much?
In highland Peru, a culture confronts blight
NGOs wary of doomsday seed vault
Lump sums (peak coal)
Downward spiral (UK coal)
U.S. coal power boom suddenly wanes
High-powered P.R. firm goes to work polishing the image of coal
Beyond Bali (Canada and carbon sequestration)
The year is 1970 and as the scene opens in the Blue Room Cafe, known locally as Blue Room University, a group of farmers are discussing the pros and cons of growing corn the usual way and the new-fangled organic way. [Fiction, based on a historical events]
Warren Buffett on net energy and peak oil
WSJ’s Neil King explains PO and oil prices on PBS NewsHour
Peak oil is a cost issue
Oil’s wakeup call
Bush: America must ‘get off oil’
Bartlett pounces on hydrogen claims
William F. Buckley on $100 oil
Oil hits $104 as OPEC rebuffs Bush
Non-OPEC oil production likely to disappoint over 2008
Saudi Arabia’s crude oil reserves propaganda
Merrill Lynch: Oil scarcity will dampen world economy
California’s hills are green, but all’s not well
Pictures of a changing planet
Tobacco and oil pay for climate conference
Global warming paradox? (info may not help)
Climate camp to target coal power station
PM’s green credentials are not in the bag
Monbiot: Did the Standard tell the truth about the Heathrow climate camp?
Thirsting for energy in India’s boomtowns
OPEC rethinking production cut plans
Will Saudis export their NG?
Inflation and petroleum depletion in Trinidad
There is an overwhelming need for non-technological responses to our global environmental crisis.
