Kevin Anderson: What they won’t tell you about climate catastrophe
Scientists and officials are not telling the public the awful truth: we are hurtling toward catastrophic climate change.
climate change
You can’t say that!
Yes, the most effective way to slow climate change is to shrink the economy.
China energy outlook: an inside look at Chinese energy thinking
Globally, only two reports are published on an annual basis wherein the world’s energy situation is fully scrutinized…A number of years ago China decided it needs its own version of the truth.
Commentaries on the IEA WEO 2012 – peak postponed? – Nov 14
•IEA Oil Forecast Unrealistically High; Misses Diminishing Returns •2012 World Energy Outlook: James Hamilton •IEA report reminds us peak oil idea has gone up in flames •US to overtake Saudi Arabia in oil as China’s water runs dry •Did Peak Oil Doomers Fixate On a False Scenario?
Low-Carbon Future?
It’s quite easy to bury your head in the sand but even with our heads fully submerged, our bottoms cannot ignore the fact that over the last five years they have been intermittently frozen, drenched, dried out and/or baked at the most odd and unexpected of times.
Occupy Sandy, from relief to resistance
Two weeks ago I was in my hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, wading waist deep in a murky combination of floodwater, oil and sewage. More than a week later, after finally getting unstuck from New Jersey (even the deepest Jersey pride has its limits…), I found myself in a van full of Occupy Sandy activists delivering hot meals to housing-project high rises in Coney Island during a Nor’easter.
IEA – World Energy Outlook 2012 – Nov 12
•World Energy Outlook 2012 Executive Summary •U.S. Oil Output to Overtake Saudi Arabia’s by 2020 •IEA calls for focus on energy efficiency •IEA cuts global forecast for growth in nuclear capacity
Climate change trumps terrorism as threat to national security
Climate destabilization eclipses all other security threats to human civilization except for a major nuclear war. But the current global economy gives no signals to investors and consumers about the profound implications of climate destabilization on water cycles, agriculture, and humanity’s ability to grow food for seven billion people.
Deep thought – Nov 7
•Superstorm Sandy—a People’s Shock? •Building a new environmentalism •Reasons why climate change disasters might not increase concern about climate change
The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
We called it Sandy, and it came to tell us we should have listened harder when the first, second, and third disasters showed up.
Ravaging tide or renewable world?
Can big cities like New York or Washington protect against storm surge and rising seas?
Energy innovation and traditional knowledge
Many indigenous territories have tremendous wind, solar, biomass and geothermal resources, and there are varying opinions as to whether energy-related climate change mitigation activities are having a positive or negative impact on local and indigenous communities.
