Climate – Nov 20
Emissions by industrialised countries at new high
U.N. says it’s time to adapt to warming
The U.N.’s blunt and alarming final report
Californians’ serious (and sunny) climate outlook
Coal addiction hinders climate cleanup
Fossil Fuels
Energy policies – Nov 20
Castro: Oil costs and development
Southeast Asian leaders back nuclear energy
Nuclear revival in Europe likely
U.S. response – Nov 20
Rep. Bartlett: Why is oil/gas SO expensive?
U.S. Energy Secretary Bodman: not worried by OPEC dollar debate
Peak oil production and the implications to the state of Connecticut (report)
Peak Oil Review – November 19th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– OPEC’s Summit
– Saudis Mount a PR Offensive
– Energy Briefs
OPEC and the dollar – Nov 19
OPEC ready to dump dollar?
Critics assail weak dollar at OPEC event
OPEC to study effect of dollar on prices
OPEC pins future on price stability
OPEC’s lost sway over oil prices
Oil producers – Nov 19
Kuwait’s petrodollar dilemma: Mountains of cash … how to utilize it?
Brazil, the new oil superpower
Antarctica, the new hot real estate
Bottom line obsessed, Big Oil is forsaking the future
Science fiction, thrillers and fairy tales – Nov 19
Bruce Sterling post-peak short story
Brian Aldiss: Our science fiction fate
Rumpeltstiltskin updated
The Shell Game preview
WSJ front page: Oil officials see limit
A growing number of oil-industry chieftains are endorsing an idea long deemed fringe: The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day. (Excerpt and comments from Dave Cohen of ASPO-USA, Jeffrey Brown, Rep. Bartlett’s staff and Energy Bulletin)
Preparing transportation for oil depletion
Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.
Response to WSJ article on peak oil
The oil production forecasts that have been truly erroneous are not those of peak oil researchers, but those of the EIA, the IEA and CERA. These estimates are consistently biased high. One wonders whether the forecasts of these organizations are based primarily on forecasts of future demand, together with a large measure of wishful thinking.
Peak fun (and the inevitable hangover)
When you are at the peak of the biggest party ever thrown in history, the fossil-fuel party, who worries about the hangover?
Peak oil – Nov 18
Who’s talking about peak oil (quotes)
How should I prepare for life without oil?
Simmons and others in the media
