Climate policy – June 23
FEASTA reviews EU’s emissions trading system
Carbon trading: Where greed is green
Exclusive global warming poll: Americans worrried
Education
Peak oil – June 19
Geological Society of America: Hubbert’s peak or a plateau?
Oil dependence spells economic disaster for Ireland (TV)
Energy security in Nova Scotia
In defense of the Hubbert Linearization Method
BP Statistical Review & The Independent's PO article
Chris Skrebowski comments
Jeremy Leggett comments
The day ‘peak oil’ became a household word
Jerome a Paris: BusinessWeek tells the harsh truth
Lies, damned lies and BP statistics
Climate – June 15
It’s All About Carbon (animation)
Mexican Nobel laureate calls for Post-Kyoto treaty to include developing nations
Calif: Schwarzenegger warns EPA on lawsuit on emissions waiver
Greenland warms to climate change
Solutions & sustainability – June 15
Cornell students unite to create “State of the Planet” course
Astyk: Could rationing be made palatable?
Organic food revive fortunes of Europe’s farmers
Mini review: A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
A high quality documentary that does a good job of telling the peak oil story. Unfortunately it doesn’t cover global warming or reasonable responses to peak oil.
The EIA's simple model of a complex world
How reliable is EIA forecasting about oil supplies and prices? Only an investigation into how it is done allows us to answer these questions. Some digging reveals that there is little reason to trust EIA prognostications.
Commemorating Admiral Rickover's 1957 speech on energy
Speech to the U.S. House: “Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of our nuclear navy, gave an amazingly prophetic speech 50 years ago. He noted that we have 8,000 years of recorded history and discussed the extraordinary contribution of energy, particularly oil, to the development of civilization. However, Adm. Rickover noted that oil and all fossil fuels are finite resources that once burned are gone forever.”
Peak oil – June 13
Calif. Inst. of Technology researcher: “Hubbert’s peak, coal, and climate change”
ODAC News
Petrol problems about peak oil, not snake oil
4 takes on oil demand, supply and disruption
BP Energy Review: World has enough oil for 40 years
Peak oil – June 12
Heinberg video: “Global responses to climate change and fossil fuel depletion”
Oilwatch Monthly – June 2007
Energy news round-up from Canada
The official story: A lesson in how to undermine it
How come the peak oil story isn’t center stage in the American consciousness? A critical reason: The peak oil movement has been focused mainly on selling a new narrative to the public without first dislodging the existing one.
Stay in NYC?
Reaction to the recent sustainability plan for New York City: “I expected to see steps that ask people to give more of themselves than their money. Why weren’t people encouraged to educate themselves about energy? Learn where it comes from. Don’t blindly accept proposals offered by government, corporations, or so-called experts.”
