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The Associated Press (AP) has just put out a story on the peak oil report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The story will be published by dozens or hundreds of newspapers and news sites.
“What does the energy crisis teach us? That it’s hard for meaningful change when few think there is a problem,” MIT author Meg Jacobs said. The challenge today, as much as it was then, is to “create a market and momentum for new ways of thinking about energy.”
Why should the United States, members of Congress asked, take any action on climate change when China and India weren’t doing anything about their CO2 emissions? One witness compared their attitude to the childhood lament, “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I’m going to go and eat some worms.”
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UK Government overestimates benefits of nuclear power and underestimates risks of nuclear proliferation and terrorism, says new report.
The debate that is taking place in the Congress is truly an historical debate: it is a rare debate indeed when it can truly be said that the future of the entire planet turns on the outcome of that debate. [excerpts]
Whether they realize it or not, policymakers are deeply engaged in the “wedges” game – imagining how to replace energy technologies that produce greenhouse emissions with less-harmful alternatives. But we have to play the wedges game fair.
US Congress holds hearing on oil dependence
McFarlane: Renewable energy is best solution to terror threats
Big Oil buys Berkeley
Energy policy makes strange bedfellows
So far, Warren Brown is the only voice in the NY Times, Washington Post or LA Times who regularly speaks out on peak oil.
CERA’s Yergin: Energy supply faces “growth challenge”
US experts seek India, China entry in global energy system
Results from 20 opinion polls on energy
Energy plan from John Edwards
Non-partisan Congressional think tank concludes: “…there are limits to the amount of biofuels that can be produced and questions about the net energy and environmental benefits they would provide. Further, rapid expansion of biofuel production may have many unintended and undesirable consequences for agricultural commodity costs, fossil energy use, and environmental degradation.”
