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Staff The IEA On Peak Oil
ASPO Newsletter – March 2008
Asia boom means oil will continue to rise
Review of Kunstler’s new novel
Scraping the barrel (anti-PO)
Life after the oil crash (Canada peakists)
Peak oil – true or false (abiotic oil)
The UK has until recently been one of the most resilient economies in the world. Over the last 100 years, it has survived two world wars, staged spectacular economic recoveries, been blessed with energy resources, and evolved from manufacturer to the world into a service economy. But the position in which it now finds itself looks bleaker.
This is the third and final part in a series of comments on Professor Peter Odell’s article that appeared in the UK newspaper The Guardian on February 15th, itself a response to an article in the same newspaper by Dr. Jeremy Leggett on February 5th.
Second of two interviews with Philip Sutton, coauthor of a recent report titled Climate Cod Red: The Case for a Sustainability Emergency. He discusses how, with a shared sense of purpose and heroic leadership, humans have the technical and social capacity to go into “emergency” mode and design an economic and environmental turn-around in 10-20 years.
Coal, so long the Cinderella of fossil fuels, is not just in demand but in desperately short supply. The world’s biggest producers and exporters are struggling, and the price of imports to Europe has doubled. Does this mean lower emissions from coal and less danger from climate change?
The founder of ASPO describes the strange history of the oil database used by CERA/IHS, and how it is intertwined with the peak oil movement.
The fate of most of the world’s peoples is going to depend on how well we, as societies – here and around the world,- get our collective acts together over the coming decades and organize to survive the transition to a post-oil world.
Recent debates around the future of agriculture on the far side of Hubbert’s peak, wrestling with questions of the reversibility of the rise of industrial agriculture, have missed two crucial points. First, systemic change in complex systems rarely follows linear patterns; second, economic trends already in place may well favor the emergence of a viable postpetroleum agriculture.
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
