A suit for the emperor
In a recent iconoclastic talk at the University of Bristol, a leading British climate scientist invoked the lad in Hans Christian Andersen’s story of the emperor’s new clothes.
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Shale gas – Nov 23
•Methane leaks suggest fracking benefits exaggerated •Gas Industry Attacks Scientists After Research Finds Triple The Normal Levels Of Methane At Australian Gas Fields •Shale gas needs regulation, not a ban -European Parliament •A Contrarian on Shale Gas •US Shale Gas Won’t Last Ten Years: Bill Powers •Gas is abundant, affordable and acceptable. It’s also the future, argues Shell chief Peter Voser
Climate – Nov 21
•New Report Examines Risks of 4 Degree Hotter World by End of Century [World Bank] •Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies in September 2012 [US]
Germany’s energy transition – Nov 20
•Germany Has Built the Clean Energy Economy That U.S. Rejected 30 Years Ago •The German nuclear exit
Hurricane Cassandra?
There is something prophetic about Hurricane Sandy in its foretaste of what Obama is now calling a ‘warming world’. Watching New York being battered by the storm was eerily like a scene out of climate-apocalypse movie The Day After Tomorrow.
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.
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
