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[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] DrumBeat: March 3, 2008: Awareness of Peak Oil, Climate Change, impending global economic implosion, topsoil depletion, biodiversity collapse, and the thousand other dire threats crashing down upon us at the dawn of the new millennium constitutes an enormous psychological burden, one so onerous that most people (and institutions) respond with a battery of psychological defenses-mostly versions of denial and distraction-in an effort to keep conscious awareness comfortably distanced from stark reality.
[Martin's Rants] Peak Oil is almost here says Shell: Maybe the oil companies are in the last throws of high profitability before their fall from grace? I heard an interview on Radio 4 recently with Jeremy Leggett (a former oil-man who now champions the peak-oil reality and the ”˜Transition .
[9/11, the bigger picture and the quest for truth] General :: RE: FYI Re: Peak Oil: This is the NWO the US and UK government actually refer to in their proposals, that of grasping as much ownership of the world's energy now to prevent immediate crashes in our system tomorrow and our governments seem bent on doing this even if it requires sacrifices in life in the Middle east and at home. I think this last point is the one you hate the most, the fact that there might be a reason (albeit one that still shouldn't result in loss of life) behind all this madness rather than being just about good versus evil.
[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] DrumBeat: February 13, 2008: HOUSTON -- When the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says he is "delighted" with what he just heard from the head of the one of the nation's biggest energy companies, it would seem global warming has arrived -- even at what is described as the "Super Bowl" of energy conferences.
[On the Wilder Side] Levittown: Greening the Suburbs 3/4/08 & more: Other studies, some dating back nearly 20 years, have projected that Lake Mead could fall to virtually useless levels as climate warmed, but they lacked a sense of the timing. The new results, the Scripps scientists say, represent a first attempt to answer when lakes Mead and Powell would run dry, squeezing water supplies in Arizona , California , Nevada , and New Mexico .
[A powerswitch is coming and a powerswitch is needed.] powerswitch @ 2008-02-10T18:38:00: Last month Bristol based activists organised a Polar Bear ”˜die-in’ at the offices of the BBC, invading a rather poncey cheese and wine do put on for local business leaders and their political puppets. Protesters drew attention to the irony of Shell sponsoring anything to do with wildlife, when its bosses refer to the melting of the icecaps as a ”˜business opportunity’ because it will make drilling for the ever more elusive black gold that little bit cheaper.
[OIL AND GAS MARKET PRICE ANALYSER] 5 Sure Things for a Turbulent Market: In international petroleum market news, oil prices slid on Monday, drifting toward $90 a barrel as a weak close on Wall Street spurred some profit taking, although expectations that OPEC will leave its production unchanged should curb .
[Ciradarsloan's Weblog] Learning The Lessons Of Fossil Fuel Dependency: Burning rainforest and peatlands to create palm oil plantations for biofuels releases vast amounts of CO2, and has already made Indonesia, according to some ways of calculating it, the world’s third biggest emitter after the US and China.
[Dating experts service sites] News - End of oil heralds climate pain: It is mathematically impossible that peak oil will solve climate change. Although oil is the biggest single source of energy-related greenhouse gases, coal and gas combined are bigger still, and the expected growth in their emissions .
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: How will peak oil and peak coal affect the legislative process? These were no normal teenagers.” ”˜We Want More’.
[HOUSE OF PAINE blog] Site Map: Politically Wrong (1); In the Absence of Reason; Information Warfare; Interview with David Ray Griffin; Iraq Study Group Recommends Privatization of Iraq's Oil; Iraq’s Colonial Occupier; Iraqi Lawmakers Reject Occupation ...
[Proto Matter] What shade coffee looks like: Separate council duties from politics. Socioeconomic Status Doesn’t Explain Racial Gap in Vaccine Rates. Oil Shortages Start in 2010; Peak Oil Hits 2012-2015. Stinson Morrison Hecker to focus on climate change. ...
[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: This post reproduces the report’s discussion of why peak oil and climate change must be treated together”¦ The dominant theme of their report, and indeed their purpose behind it, is to recognize a climate and sustainability emergency, .
[olyecology weblog] 303 - Earth's Tree News: We spent about 45 minutes just sitting at the peak, surrounded by orange sunbursts flitting through the sky. It was serene and tranquil, like a silent snowfall. The only sounds were the wind blowing through the trees and the flapping of ...
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