Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Staff Disaster-prone deltas next climate risk
Conflicts fuelled by climate change causing new refugee crisis, warns UN
Climate chaos is inevitable; we can only avert oblivion
Warming could release trillions of pounds of carbon annually from E. Siberia’s frozen soils
A catastrophe for Iowa farmers will not be just a catastrophe for Midwestern Americans. In the Iowa floods, we’ll see more evidence of how the problems of weird weather (climate change) combine and ramify the problems associated with peak oil.
News round-up from a U.S. peak-oil perspective, including:
– Production and Prices
– The King’s Meeting
– Protests Spread
– Energy Briefs
Izzy Stone, Patron Saint of Bloggers
The Ups and Downs of Giving a Peak Oil Presentation
Broadcast Legend Bill Moyers on Media Reform
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
The Associated Press, Bloggers, Boycotts, and Copyright Issues
Blogger arrests hit record high
Inflation surges to highest in 16 years
Brown: oil price is ‘the most worrying situation in the world’
Brown says world needs 1,000 extra nuclear power stations
Climate change protesters hijack coal train
Tories to block third runway at Heathrow
Bernard Landry: Pour l’indépendance politique et pétrolière
Le pétrole – Attendrons-nous d’en manquer avant d’agir ?
McCain calls for more offshore oil drilling
More drilling won’t help
U.S. cities for the 21st century
Brookings: Rethinking American Transportation for the 21st Century
Succession at House of Saud
Saudis playing ‘high stakes game’ ahead of oil summit
Arab News: Rise in oil prices
Saudi King: ‘We will pump more oil’
Saudis plan to increase oil output
Saudi Arabia’s leverage in oil market is sapped
SA’s reserves: particulars or propaganda?
More oil flowing?
Saudi oil: the foundation of geopolitical power
BBC on peak oil
Europe: Oil’s Brave New World
New Matt Simmons Presentations
Oilwatch Monthly – ASPO-Netherlands
Learning From the Oil Shock
Localizing a global oil problem
Post Peak Iberia
Fuel Protests Intensify Across Asia
The Wal-Mart Dilemma, the Two-Income Trap and the End of Oil
A Bull Market Sees the Worst in Speculators
Action against oil speculators could backfire
If a Hurricane Strikes
Out Of Control(s)- China’s energy subsidies
Eliminating Subsidies Won’t Cut It (Demand for Oil That Is)
Can We Have Rationing Now Please? (David Fleming interview)
BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008
