India: Water everwhere but none to drink
Cherrapunjee, in the northeastern state of Meghalaya (the “Land of Clouds”), is a “wet desert”, and a case study in environmental degradation, deforestation and resource mismanagement.
Simon Denyer
Antarctic Glaciers Accelerating in Response to 2002 Ice Sheet Collapse
Glaciers in Antarctica’s most rapidly warming region have quickened their pace following the collapse of a Delaware-sized ice shelf in March 2002, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder and a related study by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
China Urges Russia to Help Yukos to Resume Oil Shipments
Beijing is pushing the Russian government to intervene to get Russia’s top oil exporter to continue all its shipments to China. The Russian company Yukos says it will stop crude oil deliveries next week because it cannot afford the shipping costs.
The High Price of Oil (book review)
What is striking about both books [Blood and Oil by Klare and Oil: Anatomy of an Industry by Yeomans]… is that they argue that the United States can avoid the petro-military dystopia if Americans (a) get Bush out of office, (b) make a concerted effort to create and exploit alternative fuels, and (c) — in Klare’s words — “reduce American dependence on imported oil and … sever the links between our energy behavior and our overseas security commitments.”
Blair’s missing the point on financing renewables: fossil volatility costs more
Tony Blair’s call on British businesses to take the moral lead on climate change is laudable and his encouragement to the UK renewable and low-carbon energy industry is welcome. But by tying renewables so closely to climate change, we are in danger of undervaluing them.
Wind power gets the thumbs up
NEARLY three-quarters of the population agree wind farms are necessary to help meet the UK’s current and future energy needs, despite a vocal protest against their expansion.
Have you run out of energy?
Imagine having your own annual greenhouse gas allowance which you ’spend’ each time you fill up with petrol or pay an electric or gas bill. It sounds like a scene from a futuristic movie, but this scenario could really happen in the next few years according to researchers at the UK’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Prediction.
Blair’s missing the point on financing renewables: fossil volatility costs more
Renewable and low-carbon energy are not just the long-term solutions to climate change. They are indispensable today if we are to cushion the British economy against volatile oil and gas prices and the impending peak in world oil production – not least the dwindling reserves in the North Sea.
Demographic oil demand and peak oil
Since about 1999 per capita world average oil consumption is increasing. This recovery, after a long decline through about 1980-2000, has strong implications for potential oil demand, and potential annual growth of world oil demand as we enter the period immediately preceding ‘Peak Oil’.
Bottomline Decisions: Concerns about reliable supply will always trump the call for cleaner energy
Securing supply tops the energy-policy agenda. That is the message coming loud and clear from more than 60 energy-industry leaders, including big-company CEOs and senior government officials, recently surveyed by the World Economic Forum…. History shows that policymakers will put price and supply before social and environmental concerns.
Oil producers have wafer-thin safety margin: experts
Limited spare capacity means that the ability of oil producers to meet the sharpest rise in demand since the 1970s is likely to be severely tested, according to experts attending an OPEC-sponsored seminar in Vienna.
U.S. Can Eliminate Oil Use in a Few Decades
Amory Lovins and the Rocky Mountain Institute have come up with a proposal to save American capitalism from the end of the age of oil.
