United States – June 25
The Oil Drum challenge: What you can do now to change federal energy policy
Democrats move focus from drilling to conservation in new energy bill
New study: Americans skeptical about cap-and-trade
Energy Policy
China: As glaciers melt and rivers dry up, coal-fired power stations multiply
While the Chinese economy has tripled in size in a decade, it has been at the expense of carbon dioxide emissions, which were yesterday put at more than 6.2bn tonnes in 2006, compared to nearly 5.8bn tonnes for the US.
Geopolitics – June 21
New role for Japan?
China says exports fuel GHGs
Confronting empire (U.S. and oil)
Letters from Osama (satire)
Climate policy – June 19
Emission possible: Sweden the eco-powerhouse
Exxon attacks Greenpeace but says it wants to save the planet
Monbiot debates with Clive Hamilton
Yes Men make modest flesh-to-fuel proposal
Future shock: End of the oil age
In Future Shock: End of the Oil Age, RTÉ’s Chief Economic Correspondent George Lee brings us to the heart of one of the biggest challenges that Ireland faces in the future – life after Peak Oil.
(An outspoken documentary from Ireland’s National Broadcaster)
From peak oil to dark age?
Oil output has stalled, and it’s not clear the capacity exists to raise production
The Pentagon v. peak oil
How wars of the future may be fought just to run the machines that fight them.
James Woolsey on ending the oil era
Interview with former CIA director James Woolsey. “The war on terror is the only war the United States has fought, with the obvious exception of the civil war, in which we pay for both sides. This is not a good plan. This current year we will borrow something on the order of $320 billion dollars, nearly a billion dollars a day, to import oil.”
United States – June 12
Senators to begin work on energy measure
Energy efficient, but still using more
To some, high gas prices have a silver lining
Climate policy – June 12
The Democrats lag on warming
Mexico taking a lead role in global warming
Book review: The Last Oil Shock
Strahan has produced a thoroughly researched and compelling book to add to the growing pile of publications on the coming energy crises, one of the best since Richard Heinberg’s The Party’s Over
Al Gore wants to be President
One cannot separate fossil fuel depletion from global warming. Although both of these evil twins will force us humans to curb our consumption of fossil fuels, how we chose to utilize – and stretch out – and allocate our remaining resources is a critical element of any global plan.
