UK international commitments on climate change are incompatible with the development of a national shale gas industry
Shale gas is indisputably a high-carbon energy source.
carbon emissions
Time to stop investing in carbon capture and storage
Government investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a large and expensive fossil-fuel subsidy with a low probability of eventual societal benefit.
Energy Crunch: Energy round-up: why the government should stick to its carbon budget
Weakening the UK’s Fourth Carbon Budget has no legal basis and would be economically damaging.
Zero Emissions by 2050
Is it feasible to have zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050? Yes!
Oil Shale: Looming Threat to Western Wildlands
Oil shales, if they live up to proponents’ expectations and can be produced commercially, could change the economic and political fortunes of the United States and transform the geopolitical map of the world.
Climate, resilience and geopolitics – headlines
•Obama Administration Takes Action on Climate ‘Resilience’ •Global security in the age of climate responsibility •Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies •CO2 levels hit record high •How the world is failing at its climate goals, in one giant chart •The Climate Mapping Tool You’ve Been Waiting For •2012’s carbon emissions in five graphs
Beyond Keystone XL: Why One Maine Town Is On The Front Lines Of The Battle Against Tar Sands
On Tuesday, approximately 25,000 residents of South Portland will decide the future of what could soon become America’s next tar sands pipeline. Not Keystone XL; the Portland-Montreal Pipeline.
Climate and hope on emissions? – headlines
•America delivers climate hope, again. US CO2 fell 3.8% last year •U.S. carbon emissions fell sharply in 2012. But don’t expect that to last. •Are global emissions heading for a permanent slowdown? •Study: Arctic Sea Ice Loss Shifts Jet Stream, Driving Deluges In NW Europe, Drought In Mediterranean •Unprecedented warming uncovered in Pacific depths
Outsourcing Pollution and Energy-Intensive Production
Globalization has largely been seen in the context of the outsourcing of information technologies. But the larger outsourcing that globalization is leading to is the outsourcing of pollution and the energy-intensive production of goods.
Carbon Capture And Storage: One Step Forward, One Step Back
CCS simply hasn’t yet proven to be practical, affordable, scalable, and ready to be ramped up rapidly.
To power up or power down? That is the question
Recently I read that our challenge in the twenty-first century is to triple global energy demand “so that the world’s poorest can enjoy modern living standards, while reducing our carbon emissions from energy production to zero”.
IEA, climate, and energy – June 11
•Four energy policies can keep the 2 °C climate goal alive •Waiting on new climate deal ‘will set world on a path to 5C warming’ •The Burning Question by Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark – review