Energy Crunch: the global picture
Everything is changing on energy, and yet everything remains the same. This is the message from the latest World Energy Outlook by the International Energy Agency.
Fossil Fuels
Mountaintop removal provides Appalachian coal to Europe
Ever since Europeans arrived on this continent they have been digging and mining, shipping the fruits of these soils back across the Atlantic.
Energy Reality: What We’re For
Recognizing that all human economic activity is a subset of nature’seconomy and must not degrade its vitality is the starting point for systemic transformation of the energy system.
Fukushima and our inability to gauge risk
Perhaps the most important energy story on the planet right now is the precarious situation for fuel rods stored in a damaged building at the Fukushima nuclear power station. However, there is another story beyond the immediate danger that tells us something about how we think about risk.
How to deflate the carbon bubble
The fossil fuel industry hurts the climate – and the economy. In Norway, environmentalists and labour union activists have formed a new alliance, and published a book on how to wean the country off oil.
If We Burn All the Fossil Fuels
Basically, if we burn all the fossil fuels, we’re all going down and taking the rest of the species on the planet with us, and we really will be the dumbest smart species ever to cause our own extinction.
Albert Bartlett: On message about exponential growth to the end
Albert Bartlett might have been another obscure physics professor had he not put together a now famous lecture entitled "Arithmetic, Population and Energy"in 1969. The lecture begins with the line: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
Our Fossil-Fueled Future
If the experts at the U.S. Department of Energy are right, the startling “new” fuels of 2040 will be oil, coal, and natural gas — and we will find ourselves on a baking, painfully uncomfortable planet.
Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement? – Paul Gilding in Conversation with Asher Miller
In this far ranging discussion, Paul and Asher discuss the importance of the psychology of winning within the climate movement and the evidence Paul sees — in the debate of ideas, in the renewable energy market, in the fear of investors — that the fossil fuel industry is on the cusp of becoming a dying industry.
The Third Carbon Age
When it comes to energy and economics in the climate-change era, nothing is what it seems.
Betting on Climate Failure: The Ethics and Economics of Fossil Fuel Divestment
Naïve or Necessary? How does the economic and ethical case for divestment stack up?
Beyond petroleum? – headlines
•Big Oil’s Big Lies About Alternative •Peak Oil and the New Carbon Boom •Did Global Oil Consumption Slow in 2012? •Elephant in the room: How OPEC sets oil prices and limits carbon emissions