Climate policy – Nov 5
Climate wars threaten billions
Think tank: Climate affects security
Climate change: we have the power
NY Times environmental reporter Revkin now a-blog
NBC’s rainbow turning green
Geopolitics & Military
Geopolitics – Nov 4
The perils of petrocracy
Iran shuns greenback deals
William Clark updates Petrodollar Warfare (video)
Venezuela won’t seek partners for former Exxon, Conoco fields
Geopolitics – Nov 3
Ex-U.S. officials play out mock oil spike crisis
U.S. OK’s Saddam law oil deals
Russian, China and Iran look ahead to a post-hydrocarbon world
Retired Army general says conflicts in Middle East could keep U.S. there for 50 years
Pricing the marginal barrel of oil: keeping the supply coming
NATO and energy security
Concerns about energy security have made their way to the agenda of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). But to ensure energy security we are now risking global security.
Geopolitical – Oct 31
Venezuela’s gas prices remain low, but political costs may be rising
Why did we invade Iraq anyway?
Iraq’s oil: the plot thickens
Mideast – Oct 30
World oil output struggling, say Arab experts
Middle East can leave oily old cycle in the past
Iran adapts to economic pressure
Geopolitics – Oct 27
Endgame for Iraqi oil?
How secure are Middle East oil supplies?
Stan Goff’s Energy War now online
Re-visiting “Petrodollar Warfare”
Iran worries and oil prices – Oct 26
Strike on Iran would roil oil markets
Iran – tension and pressure up again
Oil rises to record over $92 after U.S. says Iran backs terror
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Beyond the age of petroleum
This past May, in an unheralded and almost unnoticed move, the Energy Department signaled a fundamental, near epochal shift in US and indeed world history: we are nearing the end of the Petroleum Age and have entered the Age of Insufficiency.
Climate policy – Oct 25
UK’s new climate change tsar
White House edits CDC climate testimony
The next French revolution: Sarkozy’s plans for a green future
Steinmeier: climate change growing threat to peace
Geopolitical – Oct 24
Claiming Antarctica: oil, water and environmental risks
Chile to lay claim to piece of Antarctica
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO):
“NATO of the East”
United States – Oct 22
Friedman: Save the planet: vote smart
Historic bill in Senate to fight warming
House Inteligence Committee urged to support global warming threat assessment
