Climate policy – July 20
Climate change and true cost pricing
Making millions from climate change?
Greens to banks: Just say no to coal
Energy Policy
Energy policy – July 19
Ministers speak out on Chile’s energy crisis
China and Turkmenistan sign energy deals
Venezuela: Idea of ‘energy security’ in U.S. is fantasy
National Petroleum Council hides the hard truths about energy instead of facing them
While the NPC do have some ‘hard truths’ in their report, they are surrounded in a dense matrix of mumbo-jumbo and irrelevant reassurances about how large the resource endowment is.
U.S. energy policy – July 18
Papers detail industry’s role in Cheney’s 2001 energy report
LA Times: Dingell’s energy bill blind spot; he deserves a “warm spot in Greenland”
House boosts energy efficiency programs but…
Action needed on climate change: Business Roundtable
Fatih Birol interview in Le Monde full translation
Full translation of June 26 interview with Fatih Birol, chief economist with the International Energy Agency, in which Birol predicts the oil market will face ‘a wall’ between now and 2015.
Climate policy – July 18
Save the Earth, buy less
United States Carbon Footprint Map
Lawmakers Doubt Voters Would Fund Big Carbon Cuts
Pew’s Claussen compares cap-and-trade and carbon tax approaches for emissions reduction
National Petroleum Council report comes up a dry hole
The NPC Study [on oil supplies] is woefully inadequate, leaving the Secretary of Energy and the American public with inadequate warning of the huge economic and social risks that many experts believe are just around the corner.
Cities – July 11
London readies for ‘energy revolution’
Belgian city offers a workable, fare-free model
NYC: Congestion pricing is also security pricing
Energy policy – July 11
Rising fuel prices hits Air Force hard
Costs surge for building power plants
Germany to stay nuclear in Merkel U-turn
Energy productivity- the profitable path
Napping on the railroad tracks
“Even if you agree with a given forecast, you have to worry about the real possibility of significant divergence from it,” writes Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. How might he apply this to the peak oil issue?
Coal – July 7
The uncertain quest to clean up coal (audio)
CO2 capture and storage: the energy costs
Jeff Goodell: Big Coal’s dirty secrets (audio)
Coal and energy policy (audio)
China rising – July 6
The future of the Earth depends on China
Six degrees and China
U.S. is pressured to help China curb emissions
