United States – Apr 20
Byron King: The California oil industry
Trans-American sources of electricity
Green utilities are growing, but they need to grow faster
Growing number of Americans see warming as leading threat
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Apr 20
Hirsch: Recent forecasts of peak oil production
Swedish study: peak oil by 2018
Bakhtiari: The Century of Roots
“Saudi Arabia has peaked…” [futurology]
Petroleum Institute reaches out, discusses PO
Ig Nore Ad Vice
Oil companies – Apr 19
Exxon: The defiant one
Target global warming, target Exxon
Energy policies – Apr 19
Trade-off looms for arid US: water or power?
EU should not discard military to secure oil, US expert says
European energy security: A bear at the throat
Climate expert urges dropping clean coal
Egypt weighs domestic energy needs as export demands grow
The peak oil crisis: Have the troubles begun?
The one thing everybody agrees on is that all sorts of “bad” things are bound to happen as we transition from plentiful oil to scarcity. For each of us the troubles will begin differently.
Deconstructing the New York Times
In its recent coverage of the world’s oil supply, the New York Times has failed to meet either of McChesney’s criteria for covering this paramount social issue.
Peak oil – Apr 17
UC Berkeley study: Risks of the oil transition
Peak Oil Law Center (what’s the future?)
“Crude Demand” film reviewed in Louisville
Humbugs Along the Potomac
With a track record for erroneous forecasting that verges on the spectacular, why should anyone bother to listen to EIA when more reliable predictions can be found on the daily astrology page?
Wanna bet the farm on carbon capture and sequestration?
But if you want to go on living on the planet Earth, then you’d better learn how to love sequestration. Because if sequestration doesn’t work, the planet is toast. (Excerpts from coverage of Senate hearing)
Humus, Humility, and Humanure
The Latin root for humus, humility, and humanure are all the same, and translates as “earth.”
Geopolitics – Apr 15
Getting tough with the petro-elites
Global security: a vision for change
The Limitations and Necessity of Naval Power
Bush family does a Moon dance
The Last Oil Shock – book review
After years of work on peak oil, it is rare for me to find a book written for the general public that can teach me something I didn’t know before. But with David Strahan’s book, The Last Oil Shock, it was a different matter.
