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World grain yield fell for four successive years from 2000 to 2003, bringing reserves to the lowest in thirty years… The Independent Science Panel (ISP) and the Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) are launching a Sustainable World initiative to engage with all sectors of civil society to make our food production system truly sustainable.
The peak oil idea – which says that world oil production will go into irreversible decline sometime in the next decade or two – is quickly morphing into conventional wisdom.
A conference will be held in Edinburgh April 25 to discuss the impending peak then decline in global oil production and its implications for the UK.
A widely reported briefing by US investment house Goldman Sachs alerted markets to the possibility of an oil price superspike – a spike as high as $105 per barrel.Yet the full report, obtained by Aljazeera.net, paints a more complex and volatile picture.
Congress begins work Tuesday on a bill to boost production and conservation.
A bad program with serious design flaws is threatening to crash the whole energy system. Do we choose to fix it or not?
During the debate about the 5c-a-litre rise in petrol excise, politicians and commentators have suggested deferring the increase until oil prices stabilise at lower levels. No one, however, has been able to offer a valid reason why prices should come down.
Green groups warn against moving methane hydrates from beneath seabed
Jorge Figueiredo argues that Peak Oil will exacerbate a crisis in capitalism, and the as yet unwritten result could either be fascistic or ‘revolutionary’.
The price of regular gasoline has passed the $1 mark in a large Canadian city, apparently for the first time.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has come to the conclusion that the world economy is facing a serious threat of acute oil shortage.
[UPDATE APR 9 – new date for next speech] On the 14th March Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett made a presentation on Peak Oil to the US Congress. Online video of the presentation and a text version with graphics are now available. Rep. Bartlett will be giving a second presentation on solutions in about a week.
