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We do not have to discuss or doubt the established historic rise in temperature, but we have to discuss and doubt the future temperature increases that the IPCC scenarios project and the fossil resources that IPCC assumes in its prognoses.
The water shortage across eastern Australia is now so acute it has begun to affect power supplies, and the country is at risk of electricity shortages next year.
“I think we are in denial, and are going to have brownouts in NSW if we don’t get snow this winter,” a source within the electricity market said.
We now have two authoritative studies reaching largely consistent conclusions with devastating implications for the global economy.
The only way to change Australia is to change the USA
Australian coal industry:
Tough decisions to ensure a low-carbon world
Arnie terminates BHP project
Peak Coal?
Federal loans for coal plants clash with carbon cuts
Daily Mail: Oil-mageddon
Pickens: A future with less oil and more hard choices
Jerome a Paris:
China’s coal production to peak in a few years
Energy news portal – Global Oil Watch
Greenhouse crackdown scuppers Kipper gas field (Australia)
U.S.’s thirst for liquid natural gas growing
The cost Of coal on the environment
A new study prepared for the European Commission Joint Research Centre reports: “the world could run out of economically recoverable (at current economic and operating conditions) reserves of coal much earlier than widely anticipated.”
Professor Bartlett’s analysis of Australian energy futures should be truly shocking to governments and economists, and in fact anyone who likes growth. It demonstrates that there is no way to grow infinitely into the future.
Peaking of global oil production may have a large effect on future atmospheric CO2 amount and climate change, depending upon choices made for subsequent energy sources.
We suggest that, if estimates of oil and gas reserves by the Energy Information Administration are realistic, it is feasible to keep atmospheric CO2 from exceeding approximately 450 ppm, provided that future exploitation of the vast reservoirs of coal and unconventional fossil fuels incorporates carbon capture and sequestration. [Excerpts]
Trade-off looms for arid US: water or power?
EU should not discard military to secure oil, US expert says
European energy security: A bear at the throat
Climate expert urges dropping clean coal
Egypt weighs domestic energy needs as export demands grow
But if you want to go on living on the planet Earth, then you’d better learn how to love sequestration. Because if sequestration doesn’t work, the planet is toast. (Excerpts from coverage of Senate hearing)
