Deep thought – Dec 27
– Why Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government
– A Physicist Solves the City
– The Biodiversity Blunder
– Out with the old politics
– US embassy cables: Ireland grappling with climate change and energy
Energy Policy
Predictions for 2011
ASPO-USA and Peak Oil Review have combined to pull together predictions about what we can expect in 2011 from a wide range of thinkers, writers, scholars and experts, who graciously agreed to risk being wrong so that you can have the inside scoop!
Rekenkunde, Bevolking en Energie
Translation into Dutch of a talk by Dr. Albert Bartlett on population.
The techno-fantasies of Evo Morales: the consequences of modernization
The truth about Bolivia’s flurry of noveau-tech modernization is that, while such a pursuit may have appeared to be the means toward sustainability and defense for an island like Cuba, under attack by the world’s most potent nation-state in the 1960s — today’s ecologists, environmentalists, social-movement activists, and traditional peoples assert that exploitation/expansion-based development can no longer be the way up and out.
Climate – Dec 24
– Game Theory: Climate Talks Destined to Fail
– A Scientist, His Work and a Climate Reckoning
– James Hansen’s conversation with Bill McKibben
Peak oil notes – Dec 23
A mid-weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Developments this week
-China
Energy – Dec 23
– CERA’s Yergin: US gas demand should fall for good after ’06 peak
– The Global Oil Diet: a graphic view
– Subsidy Cuts in Iran
– Iran Stops Fuel Delivery, Afghanistan Says, and Prices Are Rising
Top 10 peak oil stories of 2010
The biggest stories of 2010 were financial. But you could say that the continuing Great Recession, the deficit debate, and more and more mortgage defaults were really stories of energy-driven economic crisis. This year also had plenty of big stories directly on energy, including some breakthroughs on peak oil. Here are our top picks. It’s a highly subjective list; so please chime in with any stories you think we left off.
Peak oil review – Dec 20
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Oil and the global economy
-Iran
-US Natural Gas
-China
-Briefs
“Fuel demand continues to strengthen, a positive sign for the economy.”
– John Felmy, Chief API economist
Peak empire
Now that global peak oil is history perhaps it’s time to work on predicting peak empire instead. If you followed the work of Joseph Tainter, he offered the theory of diminishing and eventually negative marginal return to territorial growth and complexity of societies.
Resources, conflict and greenwashing – Dec 19
– The value of a nuclear Iran (Shi’ite oil)
– Green War: “Because the Earth is worth the fight!” (greenwashing)
– S. American mountains hold key to electric car’s future: lithium for batteries
By lanternlight in rural Asia
How do ‘developing’ countries prioritise energy goals? How should they in the face of climate change? These countries, with per capita energy consumption and CO2 emissions which average one-sixth those of the ‘industrialised’ world, are not primarily responsible for climate deterioration, but on the other hand they are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts because, says the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) they have fewer resources to adapt – socially, technologically and financially.
For the majority of the populations in these countries climate change issue is not a priority concern compared with problems of poverty, natural resource management, energy and livelihood needs.
