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•Shale gas won’t stop peak oil, but could create an economic crisis •Oil giants could feel major pain should world get serious about reducing global temperatures •Why you should be cautious about the next oil boom forecast that you hear •Catastrophic Oil Spill Threat to Canadian River Basin •Climate experts weigh in on flood in the heart of oil country
The best place to start is with the development of the railroad industry, where misguided progressivism, corruption and statist mentalities almost totally destroyed what should be considered a crown jewel of the American free enterprise system.
Russia is at its 2nd and last oil peak. The easy oil is gone. The FSU export peak comes ahead of the production peak.
Environmental justice organisations and networks (ERA, Acción Ecológica, Oilwatch) put forward the proposal to leave fossil fuels in the ground.
•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…
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Within the fields of harvest and fisheries management catch per unit effort (CPUE) is one method that is used to determine the health of a biological resource. The underlying assumption is that as a population declines it becomes harder to catch and therefore CPUE decreases.
As we work down the hydrocarbon pyramid, energy gets messier and much more costly. Latest in a series.
We have a race between peak oil and global warming. Symptoms of these complex processes pop up every now and then.
The famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr once humorously observed, "Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future." And so, as the world considers yet another rosy oil supply forecast, this time from the Paris-based International Energy Agency, it is worth reviewing the agency’s record.
Two new reports say climate change could cause the next financial crisis. From London, Bob Ward, LSE lead author of "Unburnable: Carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets." Australia’s Climate Institute, John Connor on coal’s risky future. Plus Nancy LaPlaca: why sunny Arizona burns coal.
