Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
When China — along with Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, and Italy — was granted permanent observer status in the Arctic Council last month, it left many experts wondering whether a paradigm shift in geopolitics is taking place in the region.
•Rising energy prices will challenge western way of life – MoD report •Dangerous Times As Energy Sources Get Costlier To Extract •Peak oil: preparing for the extinction of ‘petroleum man’ •Greenwashing the Tar Sands, Part 3: Wherein money trumps fact every time
A mid-week update…Oil prices rebounded this week with Brent climbing above $104 after trading below $100 on Monday…
A weekly review including Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, OPEC, Quote of the Week, The Briefs.
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
•White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral •Animation of Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume 1979-2012 •San Francisco city council asks pension fund to divest its oil shares •The giants of the green world that profit from the planet’s destruction •Even A Moderate Price For Carbon Pollution Has a Big Impact On U.S. Emissions •How climate scientists are being framed
•The Great Unmentionable •Why can’t we quit fossil fuels? •The Fossil Fuel Resistance •Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist: ‘We’re trying to buy time for the world to wake up’ •Clean energy progress too slow to limit global warming – report •Meet an Orion Book Award Finalist: Flight Behavior
•California’s Fracking Bonanza May Fall Short of Promise •How North Sea oil helped Margaret Thatcher •Will Fossil Fuels Be Able to Maintain Economic Growth? A Q&A with Charles Hall •Peak Oil as seen through the eyes of Arab oil producers •Peak Oil Flip-Flop
•An ‘Absolute Will To Forget’: Iraq Casts Shorter Shadow Than Vietnam •David Frum, the Iraq war and oil •Bombs kill nearly 60 on Iraq invasion anniversary •Hawks Defend War on Low-Key 10th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion •Search and Destroy: The rape of Iraq •Death and Dollars in the New Iraq
It is now 10 years that the coalition of the willing, err… peaking (US peak 1970, UK peak 1999, Australia peak 2000) invaded Iraq. This was not just an oil war. It was a peak oil war.
•Will EDF become the Barbra Streisand of climate protest? •US Generals warn of climate change dangers •Is climate change next for GOP? •Michael Grunwald, Time Magazine •China Carbon Tax May Spur U.S. Climate Debate, CMIA Says •EU lawmakers back suspension of airline carbon payments
A weekly review including: 1. Oil and the Global Economy, 2. The Middle East, 3. Climate Change, 4. Europe, 5. Quote of the Week
6. The Briefs
