Geopolitics – Sept 4
US Army journal says ethnic cleansing works
Chavez’s whistle-stop world tour
Pakistan to develop coal as gas pipelines stall
Energy Policy
Urgent action is needed to avert the looming oil wars
While the world’s attention is focused on the aftermath of the Israel-Hizbollah war, more far-reaching and dangerous threats to global security are growing dramatically. In July, Samuel Bodman, US energy secretary, said that for the foreseeable future “we’re going to see oil demand exceeding supply”.
California set to cap emissions
California is set to introduce tough new legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions under a deal reached by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Climate policy – Aug 31
McKibben: On a global-warming march
GW impacts on World Bank programmes
Investment & abrupt climate change
UK climate change protesters feel the heat
UK conservatives push market approach on climate
The peak oil crisis: Labor Day 2006
By 2008 there is a very good chance the reality of peak oil will be widely recognized and will be causing such economic hardships that politicians can neither ignore nor pretend a cure with yet another meaningless “energy bill.” If this is indeed the case, by 2008 ways to mitigate the effects of declining oil supplies could become the central issue of elections in America and around the world for many decades to come.
Death to the incandescent
People are finally starting to take to the streets to protest climate change. But for those who won’t or can’t do that, there are plenty of other actions you can take now to damp down climate change.
Oil industry – Aug 30
BP: Big problems for oil giant
Forward-looking thoughts from Shell
China to invest $5-billion in Venezuelan oil
U.S. energy policy – Aug 29
Iraq commanders want renewable power
Californians weigh new tax on oil companies
Lugar: U.S. must break oil habit
Bush courts oil-rich Kazakhstan
Climate change policy – Aug 29
California – the risks of going it alone
China ambivalent on global warming
Monbiot: don’t trigger another catastrophe with sulphate pollution
Peak oil and Bakhtiari’s 4 phases of transition
“The four Transition periods (T1, T2, T3, and T4) will roughly span the 2006-2020 era. …The major palpable difference between the four Ts is their respective gradient of oil output decline — very small for T1, perceptible for T2, remarkable in T3, and rather steep for T4. In fact, this gradation in decline is a genuine blessing for those having to cope and adapt.”
– Dr. A.M.S. Bakhtiari, Iranian oil expert
Climate – Aug 27
– Radical changes in global tourism coming
– Labour plays the green card
– Carbon trading good for Aussie business?
– Weather Channel, Afro-Americans and
climate change
National energy policy – Aug 27
– Bracks urged to think ahead as ‘oil runs out’
– Bush’s first energy rule: efficient enough?
– Crumbling U.S. infrastructure
