Biofuels – March 30
Castro warns poor will starve for greener fuel
Heritage Foundation: The ethanol mandate should not be expanded
Via Campesina’s position on agro-fuels
Politics
Australia climate – March 30
PM’s forest plan ‘hypocritical’
Carbon karma: Green festival in Castlemaine
Carr predicts carbon trading among individuals
IPCC experts warn of climate mayhem
Howard’s punt is on the money
Australia faces extreme weather rise, says leaked UN report
Bartlett elaborates on GAO peak oil report
Address to U.S. House of Representatives, giving background on peak oil and concluding: “with proper leadership, I think that Americans could be exhilarated by the challenge.”
Associated Press picks up on peak oil
The Associated Press (AP) has just put out a story on the peak oil report released today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The story will be published by dozens or hundreds of newspapers and news sites.
GAO: U.S. needs a peak oil strategy
Highlights from the just released GAO report on peak oil: “Uncertainty about future oil supply makes it important to develop a strategy for addressing a peak and decline in oil production.”
Coverage of the GAO peak oil report
Reactions from Matt Simmons, CNBC, The Oil Drum, Tom Whipple, AP, UPI, Wall Street Journal, EV World and Congressional Quarterly.
GAO report on peak oil to be released
Reps. Roscoe Bartlett and Tom Udall will hold a new conference Thursday to discuss the release of an embargoed GAO report on peak oil. The report will reveal the U.S. is particularly vulnerable and the U.S. federal government is unprepared to respond to severe consequences from an increasing risk of significant disruptions to world oil supplies from peak oil and other factors.
I’m going to go and eat some worms
Why should the United States, members of Congress asked, take any action on climate change when China and India weren’t doing anything about their CO2 emissions? One witness compared their attitude to the childhood lament, “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I’m going to go and eat some worms.”
Middle East – March 28
Saudi king slams ‘illegitimate occupation’ of Iraq
Why is King Abdullah saying No to Bush’s dinner?
The Strait of Hormuz, Iran and the risk to oil
Oil exporters – Mar 25
China to become a top oil client: Chavez
China’s Hu heads to Russia urgently seeking fuel
Iran asking oil clients not to pay in dollar
Ecuador suffering huge losses from oil protests
Gore stays cool on the hot seat
The debate that is taking place in the Congress is truly an historical debate: it is a rare debate indeed when it can truly be said that the future of the entire planet turns on the outcome of that debate. [excerpts]
Population – March 25
Starting from where you are – Sharon Astyk on having four children
The Nation: Europeans do it better
