Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
-A strategic blunder in the North-West Frontier Province
-U.S. Military Says Its Force in Afghanistan Is Insufficient
-Tensions Rise in Post-Election Afghanistan
-Is Pakistan’s Taliban movement on the way out?
-Iran Gas Ban: Step toward War with Iran?
-How Crime Pays for the Taliban
-Michael C. Lynch and “the false threat of disappearing oil.”
-The New York Times on Peak Oil – Don’t Worry, Be Happy
-Oil: the Long Goodbye
-150 Years of Plenitude: The Story of Oil
A weekly update from a UK perspective.
As someone who has spent the past quarter of his life in the lower latitudes, the fancy footwork and the tropical rhythms still present a bit of a challenge on the dance floor. All the same, when I see my peak oil-aware brethren struggling to define and implement the best way to achieve a lower carbon future, I feel a bit of confidence that in this corner of the world, we are a couple of steps ahead of our temperate climate cousins. At times the contrasts are striking, at times comic.
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– The Saudis aroused
-Speaking At Jackson Hole
-Peak Oil: Supply Data Doesn’t Lie
-Peak Oil around 2030 says IEA (updated)
Tom Whipple, retired CIA analyst and editor of the ASPO-USA newsletter, will be a speaker at the ASPO-USA conference this October 11-13. From his home just outside Washington D.C. in Virginia, the amount of information that Tom single-handedly has gathered and circulated about the unfolding peak oil story is extraordinary.
-Canada’s Oil Sands – Part 1
-Squandered Opportunity
-Health Care: Why costs spiral up
-Editorial: The Future of Coal
-Averting a perfect storm of shortages
-The Future of Food
-The Big Question: Should Africa be generating much of Europe’s power?
-Study ranks states’ vulnerability to oil prices
-‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy
-Opec’s greed will herald the end of the oil age
It is probable, or at least possible Learsy himself takes seriously what he claims as facts in this “trenchant” piece. Basically he asserts the IEA or International Energy Agency has been taken over by dark forces which inject the world’s media, and politicians heads with dangerous, or at least wrongheaded propaganda to drive up oil prices.
A weekly review including:
– Production and prices
– China’s Coal
– Natural Gas in the US
– The UN Food Report
– Briefs
