United States – July 4
U.S. lifts moratorium on new solar projects
Naomi Klein: Disaster capitalism (Iraq oil)
Houston, we have a solution – wind power
Energy Policy
Climate policy – July 4
Rescuing reporting in the global South
Professor Garnaut’s new report on climate: Think big, Australia
India reveals its first climate change plan
UK: Climate no longer just a middle-class issue
I’ve seen the effects of climate change – and if people won’t face up to it, governments must make them
As good as it gets
Deceptive statements now dominate the political discourse on America’s oil crisis in the 2008 presidential campaign. The confused debate about Republican supply-side measures versus Democratic demand-side measures entirely misses the central point: domestic oil production is about to experience a mini-peak in the years 2010-11 and then resume its inevitable decline.
Peak oil & prices – July 3
Energy prices: What’s supply got to do with it?
Senate hearing on EIA’s forecasts for oil
The commodities bubble
Dale Allen Pfeiffer: Dealing with gasoline prices
The peak oil crisis: assesing $200 oil
While some sort of quantitative evaluation of our future would be nice, $200 oil easily could be here before anyone can crunch the numbers.
Climate – July 2
George Monbiot: This economic panic is pushing the planet right back down the agenda
The world’s will to tackle climate change is irresistible
Pew poll: Gas prices pump up US support for drilling
U.S. Midwest floods show signs of global warming
Peak oil – July 2
Peak oil: IEA inches toward the pessimists’ camp
R. James Woolsey, former CIA director, on energy security (interview)
Saudi oil project brings skepticism to the surface (Khurais)
Cutler Cleveland: Energy transitions past and future
Will wartime mobilisation address peak oil?
Coal in China
China has encouraged rapid export-led economic growth as a way of putting off dealing with its internal political and social problems. Economic growth requires energy, and China’s energy comes overwhelmingly from coal. The nation’s short-term survival strategy thus centers on producing enormous quantities of coal today, and far more in the future. (Excerpts)
Peak Oil – July 1
Cries in the Dark: Wall Street Journal profiles Bartlett, Woolsey, Karsner, Hirsch: These four voices want to make sure policymakers don’t dismiss the energy crisis — again.
Discussion with Matt Simmons
Grist interviews Kunstler
Drill here? – July 1
Gail Tverberg at TOD: The US offshore drilling debate – “start now” or “wait a while”
Three points on ANWR
Democrats are blowing our best chance for clean energy
How the Dems sacked one of the most important opportunities to turn around our energy future.
International Energy Agency says current prices justified
The International Energy Agency published one of its gloomiest ever analyses of the oil markets, asserting that oil prices are justified by fundamentals.
