Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
At NASA, we frequently have to step back and retreat to the last recognizable common ground on technical issues. If we hope to expand the dialogue about Peak Oil, …we must begin the discussion at the least common denominator — the bare facts on which everyone can agree.
TOD: Here we go again
Impact of rising gas prices ‘fairly limited’, economists say
API conference call on gas prices
MoveOn: Are you feeling gouged?
House passes gasoline gouging bill
The size of our gasoline stockpile has become an important number, not only for everyone who drives, but also for the future of our economy… If stockpiles – on either coast – drop much more, we are going to find out, the hard way, exactly where the minimal operating level is, for that will be the day the shortages develop.
Implications of “peak oil” for atmospheric CO2 and climate
Peak Oil- films to wake the sleeping
International Energy Outlook of the EIA/DOE is released
Man-in-the-street reporter bumps into “Peak Oil Man”
Canada’s tar sands: America’s energy security blanket
Ottawa denies possible buyout of Mackenzie Valley pipeline
Trinidad and Tobago plans for oil revenues: Clean water, clean hands
Letter to Science: When the oil supply runs out
Variety reviews The 11th Hour
Interview with maker of Crude – the incredible journey of oil
New PO newsletter from NL: Oilwatch Monthly
ODAC News
Author Greg Pahl: Peak oil will force changes
We do not have to discuss or doubt the established historic rise in temperature, but we have to discuss and doubt the future temperature increases that the IPCC scenarios project and the fossil resources that IPCC assumes in its prognoses.
The only way to change Australia is to change the USA
Australian coal industry:
Tough decisions to ensure a low-carbon world
Arnie terminates BHP project
The water shortage across eastern Australia is now so acute it has begun to affect power supplies, and the country is at risk of electricity shortages next year.
“I think we are in denial, and are going to have brownouts in NSW if we don’t get snow this winter,” a source within the electricity market said.
The downside consequences [of a large reduction in oil supplies] are possibly civilization-wrecking, while the benefits of the upside can be broadly characterized as nothing more than allowing business as usual to proceed.
The peak in U.S. oil production has already produced some very profound changes in our world.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
