Transport – May 21
Obama’s big step in right direction on auto fuel efficiency and emissions
Obama auto efficiency move a blow to U.S. refiners
Getting Americans out from behind the wheel
Bicycles touted as ‘first modern post-fossil vehicle’
Energy Policy
Environment & climate – May 21
Healing Mother Earth: E.O. Wilson talk
Glaciers go, leaving drought, conflict and tension in Andes
The flawed logic of the cap-and-trade debate
From ‘alarmed’ to ‘dismissive’: the six ways Americans view global warming
United States – May 21
How to follow the fossil fuel money on Capitol Hill
US energy use a national security threat: study
Kunstler: Bad collateral
America goes on furlough
Energy policy – May 19
Krugman: Empire of carbon (China)
Saudi must rein in soaring power consumption
Thriving Norway provides an economics lesson
Australia delays carbon trading scheme until 2011
Peak Oil Review – May 18
A weekly roundup of Peak Oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-Nigeria
-IEA lowers demand
-A changing LGN story
-Briefs
Climate – May 16
Dealing with climate risks: adaptation
Global warming may exceed infections as health threat
Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say
Bill McKibben: Can 350.org save the world?
Depletion & peak oil – May 16
Book review: On Borrowed Time? Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion
Letter in Science on Hubbert linearization
Kjell to speak on peak oil in Sydney
Are we moving towards a new oil crisis?
The slavery of oil
ODAC Newsletter – 15 May 2009
A weekly review from a UK perspective.
United States and Canada – May 15
Barack Obama’s key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign
Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More
Deb Doncaster at CPFO talks about Ontario’s Green Energy and Economy Act (audio)
Geopolitics – May 15
Report: Climate change will bring big problems for small number of countries
Moscow warns of future energy wars
King Abdullah of Jordan’s ultimatum: peace now or it’s war next year
Pipelineistan goes Af-Pak
The Reign of Error
Some of us think humankind will be running low on exploitable fossil fuels in the first half of the 21st century. Resource depletion can change climate change scenarios significantly. I’ll briefly present my version of that story here, my confidence buoyed by the knowledge that such a narrative can not possibly be less reasonable than positions staked out in the global warming debate.
Renewables & efficiency – May 14
The Wind does NOT Blow “Only 1/3 of the Time”
Yes, we can solve the energy crisis
The Value of Wind – why more renewable energy means lower electricity bills
