2005 Was Warmest Year On Record: NASA

Last year was the warmest recorded on Earth’s surface, and it was unusually hot in the Arctic, U.S. space agency NASA said on Tuesday. All five of the hottest years since modern record-keeping began in the 1890s occurred within the last decade, according to analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. In descending order, […]

Energy’s ‘low hanging fruit’

The UK’s energy debate has been framed wrongly, argues analyst Kevin Anderson. He believes we should be looking at issues of demand and efficiency, and not so much at the problem of supply. The arguments commonly voiced by many of the antagonists are dangerously simplistic and highly misleading in terms of policy. For example, given […]

Sea energy ‘could help power UK’

Wave and tidal power can provide a fifth of the UK’s electricity needs, according to a new report. The Carbon Trust, which helps firms develop low-emission technologies, urges the government to increase support for wave and tidal concepts. They are currently costly ways of generating electricity but the Trust’s report says prices will come down.BBC

With oil prices staying high, talk turns to change

Imagine an Ashland, and an America, much different from the ones we know today. Instead of roads lined with cars, people may transport themselves by bikes, bus or light rail. Instead of green lawns fed by commercial fertilizers people may fill their yards with vegetable gardens and other forms of home-grown food. Instead of commuting […]

Devon CEO Says Independents Gaining

Major oil companies have long had an advantage in the development of world energy supplies. But their competitive edge is diminishing due to the growth of U.S. independents and state-owned oil companies, Larry Nichols, chairman and CEO of Devon Energy Corp., the nation’s largest independent oil and gas company, said Friday. Independent companies — firms […]

Democrat governors push US health, energy subsidies

Democratic state governors on Tuesday urged President George W. Bush to adopt their proposal for $51 billion in annual federal subsidies for health care, alternative energy and education, saying it would improve America’s global economic competitiveness. On the energy front, the Democratic governors’ plan would divert $2.6 billion in U.S. subsidies to oil companies to […]

U.S. Wind Industry Ends Most Productive Year

The U.S. wind energy industry easily broke earlier annual installed capacity records in 2005, installing nearly 2,500 megawatts (MW) or over $3 billion worth of new generating equipment in 22 states, according to the Washington, D.C.-based American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Instead of the slow year that has previously followed boom years for the industry, […]

Energy Secretary Bodman Announces $119 Million in Funding and Roadmap to Advance

Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman today kicked off the Washington Auto Show with the announcement of $119 million in funding and a research fuelcellsworks

Plug-In Partners Kicks Off National PHEV Campaign

With a launch event in Washington DC, Plug-In Partners today kicked off a national campaign to urge automakers to accelerate development of plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV). An initiative of the City of Austin, Texas, Plug-in Partners is a grassroots coalition of cities including including Austin, Baltimore, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle as well […]

Europe fights freeze as Russia’s General Winter marches west

PLUMMETING temperatures and icy winds have claimed up to 300 lives across Europe as RussiaTimes Online

How green is your country?

The tables, produced by international scientists and researchers from Yale and Columbia universities in the US, ranked 133 countries according to how they tried to tackle 16 global and domestic problems and met domestic and world targets. New Zealand came top, followed by Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic. The report said the world’s poorest […]

Tackle nuclear waste disposal first, warn advisers

Britain has 2.3 million cubic metres of nuclear waste stored around the country – more than enough to fill the Albert Hall five times. Exposure to even a tiny amount of the most potent type could kill an adult within two minutes – and it remains lethal for one million years. It will cost The […]

Ford plans ‘recycled’ car using soy beans

America’s second biggest car manufacturer has revealed plans to invest millions of dollars in a recycled car it hopes will drive it into the 21st century. Faced with tough foreign competition and a diminishing share of the market, Ford Motor Company has drawn up a secret plan called the Piquette Project involving both recyclable and […]

Group: Public Skeptical About Economy

People are skeptical about the economy despite recent encouraging signs, with worries about the costs of gas, heating oil and health care. Views of the economy show sharp partisan differences, with Republicans far more likely to be optimistic than either Democrats or independents, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.Yahoo! […]

Genes record orangutans’ decline

The dramatic collapse of orangutan populations has been linked to human activity, new genetic evidence shows. In recent years, conservationists have linked the orangutans’ decline to forest clearance for palm oil plantations, which produce the raw materials used for products like lipstick and soap.BBC

Why Kuwait’s rulers are being forced to ponder a new pact with big oil

As Saleh al-Ajmi clasps the antiquated little red wheel on oil well B473, the vast, dusty expanse of the world’s second largest oil field unfolds behind him. “I love Burgan,” the Kuwaiti engineer says with a pride and tenderness usually reserved for girlfriends, not oil fields. But Burgan has earned his devotion. It is perhaps […]

Attackers Rob Oil Offices in Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria – Officials of the Italian oil company Eni SpA said an armed assault on its offices left nine people dead Tuesday in Nigeria’s petroleum-rich south, where four foreign oil workers also are being held hostage. Recent attacks and sabotage in the Niger Delta region have helped drive up international crude prices, although the […]

How to beat the high cost of gasoline. Forever.

Ethanol is the answer to the energy dilemma. It’s clean and green and runs in today’s cars. SAN FRANCISCO (FORTUNE) – General Motors will take the occasion of the Winter Olympics in Italy to begin telling Americans about a topic that has nothing to do with skiing or bobsledding. Believe it or not, the once-great […]

OPEC production cut ‘no longer required’ to keep oil over dlrs 50

The need for OPEC to make an output cut to support prices and prevent them falling below dlrs 50 per barrel (dpd) is no longer required, according to the Centre for Global Energies Studies (CGES). The oil market has tightened over the past month, reducing pressure on OPEC for a production, which may now not […]

Japanese drill for climate clues in Antarctic ice

Japanese scientists have gone back in time to study the earth’s climate by drilling more than 3 kilometres into Antarctica’s ice sheet, a researcher said on Tuesday. Yoshiyuki Fujii said the cores are among the oldest samples yet extracted by scientists and hoped bubbles of gas, such as carbon dioxide, trapped in the core samples […]

Mind the energy gap – experts query need for nuclear . (UK)

Is the Government’s “Energy Review” just a tortuous way of saying YES to a new generation of nuclear power stations? Plenty of people think so, even as a consultation period was announced yesterday with the publication of a supposedly open-minded review document.

Iran

The Bush administration will never allow the Iranian government to open an oil exchange (bourse) that trades petroleum in euros. If that were to happen, hundreds of billions of dollars would come flooding back to the United States crushing the greenback and destroying the economy. This is why Bush and Co. are planning to lead […]

Countdown to 100$ oil – long term vs short term worries

Given the most recent news on the oil markets (restatement of reserves in Kuwait, unrest in Nigeria, tensions over Iran), it is not surprising that prices are coming, again, very close to their record highs (in fact, they are higher than at any time other than in the immediate aftermath of Katrina), but the article […]

Gunmen attack Nigeria oil complex

Unidentified gunmen have stormed the offices of Italian oil company Agip in Port Harcourt, southern Nigeria. At least nine people were killed in the assault. It is reported that seven of the dead were policemen and two were civilians working at the complex.

The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle

I’m fond of saying that I’m allergic to conspiracy theories. Behind our country’s dismaying governance, cluelessness really rules, not plotting or scheming. Take, for example, these astounding remarks made Friday by former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on NPR’s “Marketplace” show:“As China grows — at the current rate it’s growing, in twenty or thirty […]

Experts warn of $100 U.S. a barrel oil

Matt Simmons, CEO of an investment bank specializing in energy, suggests after much research that Ghawar, the largest of the world’s oil fields, is facing imminent decline. Just last week Kuwait officially reduced by half its stated, proved reserves. There’s not much comfort to be gained from our own Alberta tar sands either. Sure, production […]

Oil production fears fuel grim economic warnings

As the oil price nudged above $64 a barrel this month on heightened concerns about disruption to supplies from Iran and Nigeria, a group of geologists, economists and commodity traders met in London to consider a more fundamental question: when will the world begin to run out of oil? That moment is known as “peak […]

CBI says manufacturing jobs lost

UK factory orders fell at their fastest pace in five months in January. Business leaders’ group the CBI said its monthly manufacturing order books balance was -28, after -22 in December, its lowest since August 2005. “The sustained high level of oil and sharply increased gas prices have driven up energy and raw material costs.

Iranian Official: UN Sanctions May Lead Us to Seal Off Persian Gulf

A senior Iranian official threatened that Tehran may forcibly prevent oil export via the Straits of Hormuz if the UN imposed economic sanctions due to Iran’s nuclear program, an Iranian news Web site said on Monday. This is the first time an Iranian official makes military threats in a public statement on Tehran’s recent disagreements […]

Millions in Georgia without heat

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) — More than 4 million people in Georgia were without heat for a third straight day Tuesday after a series of blasts destroyed the Russian pipeline that supplied the country’s natural gas needed for its central heating. The crisis comes as the former Soviet republic battles the coldest weather it has seen […]

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