Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
UK natural gas prices, already at historically high levels, set to rise
Monbiot: Carbon capture turning out to be another great green scam
Brown shouldn’t deny the potency of climate change
Blair to lead climate campaign
Standard criticised for ‘alarmist’ Heathrow story
Administration buries report on climate impacts on Gulf transport; muzzles scientists
Scholar: US should help China reduce emissions
US told to go green on carbon emissions or lose EU flights
Queen urges action, not talk, to tackle climate change
Ministers challenged over backing for coal-fired power station
Darling plans Labour’s greenest budget yet
Government backs coal-fired power stations
Too much discussion about responding to peak oil has focused on finding a single solution to the complex predicament we face. Start with the recognition that we don’t have any models for a sustainable technic society to work from, and a more flexible (and arguably more successful) strategy comes within reach.
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
UK energy bills rise 50% for low use
A win-win-win solution (carbon sequestration and the “staightjacket of rationality”)
Nature: Science in retreat in Canada
A line from a Bob Dylan song has increasingly struck me as a perfect symbol for the choices we now face in dealing with climate change, peak oil and population: “I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.”
We need to get it right. No one will thank us for a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.
Second of two interviews with Philip Sutton, coauthor of a recent report titled Climate Cod Red: The Case for a Sustainability Emergency. He discusses how, with a shared sense of purpose and heroic leadership, humans have the technical and social capacity to go into “emergency” mode and design an economic and environmental turn-around in 10-20 years.
The fate of most of the world’s peoples is going to depend on how well we, as societies – here and around the world,- get our collective acts together over the coming decades and organize to survive the transition to a post-oil world.
Lump sums (peak coal)
Downward spiral (UK coal)
U.S. coal power boom suddenly wanes
High-powered P.R. firm goes to work polishing the image of coal
Beyond Bali (Canada and carbon sequestration)
Bush: America must ‘get off oil’
Bartlett pounces on hydrogen claims
William F. Buckley on $100 oil
In a report on its outreach program, Shell reaffirms its adherence to the “undulating plateau” view of peak oil. A Shell poll found that 2/3 of Americans believed that peak oil would come within 20 years.
