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US ‘bids to water down global warming declaration’

The US is fighting to water down a declaration on global warming being prepared for next month’s G8 summit, it was reported today. Reuters said Washington was objecting to specific targets and arguing against significant UN involvement. The US stance risks provoking a major rift with Germany, which hosts the annual summit of the G8 […]

China Power to spend $4bn on renewable energy

China Power International, helmed by the daughter of former Premier Li Peng, plans to spend up to $4 billion by 2010 developing renewable energy as Beijing pushes to clean up its air and water and whittle down its reliance on imported resources. By 2010, China Power International plans to put into operation 1,000 megawatts (MW) […]

Russia strikes natural gas pipeline deal

The leaders of Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan reached a landmark pipeline deal on Saturday that will strengthen Moscow’s control over Central Asia’s energy export routes. yahoo

USDA economist projects 58 percent growth in ethanol production

An anticipated 58 percent jump in corn-based ethanol production next year will not boost food prices enough to harm consumers, the Agriculture Department’s chief economist said Friday. The economist, Keith Collins, projected that 118 U.S. ethanol plants will produce 9.3 billion gallons of ethanol for the crop year ending August 2008, up from the 5.9 […]

Gloomy Greenspan warns of recession for US economy

Further gloom gathered over the US economy yesterday as retail sales lurched lower while former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan issued a fresh warning that the world’s largest economy could be heading for recession. New figures showed retail sales in the US unexpectedly tumbled last month, hit by a double whammy of higher petrol prices […]

Air pollution suffocates Calcutta

Some 70% of people in the city of Calcutta suffer from respiratory disorders caused by air pollution, a recent study by a prominent cancer institute in India has concluded. Ailments include lung cancer, breathing difficulties and asthma, the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) study says. The CNCI is one of India’s foremost research bodies, and […]

Scientist studies effects of high gas prices on American workers

The socio-economic effects of high energy prices are most dramatic in the developing world and amongst the poor. There, the situation is catastrophic, so much so that the UN stated the following in its latest report on bioenergy: “Recent oil price increases have had devastating effects on many of the world’s poor countries, some of […]

Climate change could lead to global conflict

Climate change could spawn a new era of conflicts around the world over water and other scarce resources unless more is done to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, warned yesterday. She said climate-driven conflicts were already under way in Africa. Underlying the Darfur crisis, she said, was a “struggle between nomadic […]

Surge in carbon levels shows vegetation struggling to cope

Climate change may have passed a key tipping point that could mean temperatures rising more quickly than predicted and it being harder to tackle global warming, research suggests. Bristol University researchers say a previously unexplained surge of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in recent years is due to more greenhouse gas escaping from trees, […]

The great Channel 4 swindle

Two months ago Channel 4 broadcast a documentary called ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ which argued that climate change is a myth put about by money-grabbing scientists, and that the sun is to blame for any current warming trend. I’m sure the likes of Exxon-Mobil and the Bush Administration – not to mention car companies, […]

Billions in Oil Missing in Iraq, U.S. Study Finds

Between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day of Iraq The report does not give a final conclusion on what happened to the missing fraction of the roughly two million barrels pumped by Iraq each day, but the findings are sure to reinforce longstanding suspicions that smugglers, insurgents and corrupt officials control significant parts of the […]

Rotterdam wants to halve CO2-emissions

In the next few years, Rotterdam wants to reduce CO2-emissions by 50% The city of Rotterdam is going to invest 50 million euro for this goal. In cooperation with several companies, a new project was launched: Rotterdam Climate Initiative. The amount of emissions is not only big because Rotterdam is a big city. The harbor […]

Peak Oil Passnotes: Blair

…The U.K. was one of the world Having maintained such a stupidly thought out and poorly planned use of resources Mrs. Thatcher and Mr. Blair then decided to go off to the Middle East to fight wars to control the supply of other people

The Coming Explosion in Energy prices!

NIMBY is defined as But populations and the world economy has continued to boom and grow and at this point there is no production or refining capacity to feed the energy consumption needs of the United States and the world. US refineries are dilapidated and so overworked that they are now at the point of […]

Glimpse into a fuel free future

With the prospect of substantial urban sprawl in New Zealand cities and increasing car usage, Dr Andre Dantas (Civil Engineering), Dr Susan Krumdieck (Mechanical Engineering) and mechanical engineering PhD student Shannon Page have developed a software system to measure the impact of potential fuel shortages for a variety of future scenarios. RECATS, the software model, […]

Religion and peak oil: The next spirituality

It may be prophetic that science fiction, that cracked but not always clouded mirror of our imagined futures, so often makes religion central to narratives about a world after industrial civilization. That fashion was set in a big way by Walter M. MillerIn the hothouse environment of mid-20th century science fiction, a retort from the […]

Bad Climate

The ideology goes in before the science goes on. What is so striking is how these scientists, who rightly highlight the need for careful scientific analysis in characterizing the climate effects of GHG emissions, unwittingly forsake science when thinking about how to mitigate climate change. Instead, they jump right from no one thinks that, in […]

Fidel Castro: REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF

…Energy is conceived of as just merchandise. Like Marx warned us, this is not due to the perversity or callousness of some individual capitalist or another, but rather the consequence of the logic of the accumulation process, which is prone to the ceaseless Transforming food into fuels is a monstrosity. Capitalism is preparing to perpetrate […]

Will NYMEX Futures Boost Uranium Stocks Even Higher?

…The world’s soaring thirst for energy will be the biggest issue over the next few decades–not global warming, overpopulation or even the death and devastation of war (which will most likely start over the energy crisis). And the catalyst of the energy crisis will be Peak Oil. If you don’t believe me, I understand. But […]

Alaskan Villages Fighting for Survival

As the sea devours them, villages make plans to relocate … Now, ancient geologic processes have slammed into modern infrastructure, undercutting roads and toppling power poles. In what makes coastal Alaska a disturbing harbinger for global climate change, recent warming has accelerated the damage

IBM launches $1B energy efficiency effort

IBM Corp. on Thursday said it is investing $1 billion US in lessening the impact its businesses have on the environment. The technology giant said it is reallocating the funds to realize a 42 per cent decrease in its data centres’ energy consumption, avoiding some 5 billion kilowatt hours of new power use a year […]

Bioethanol Versus Biodiesel – The Tortoise and the Hare?

As the biodiesel market reaches overcapacity, and producersstruggle due to pressure on feedstock prices, investment focus is beginningto turn to the relatively undeveloped bioethanol market. Feedstocks forbioethanol production are much more diverse and higher yielding than theoilseed crops required for biodiesel production; thus bioethanol could be abetter solution and investment to address Europe’s energy needs. […]

IEA says Iran gasoline rationing is a clever move

LONDON (Reuters) – Iran’s plans to ration gasoline and increase the price should help curb imports and raise fuel efficiency but may provoke considerable domestic opposition, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday. Iran imports 40 percent of its gasoline needs, making the Islamic republic vulnerable to trade sanctions in its dispute with the […]

CEOs of Next-Generation Security and Energy Companies Update the Wall Street Rep

“We decided to do so when we thought about the energy issue going on, about energy prices going up, particularly money being sent to the people who wanted to do harm to us and the fact that the global warming issue was coming onto the radar screen,” Mr. Gillispie tells WSR’s Matt Schilling. “Alternative energy […]

Is Big Oil going to run out of gas?

Rather I believe it may be the ruthless traders at Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, UBS, CitiGroup and hedge funds who covertly and possibly in concert, create and thrive on price volatility. Their mastery at dissimulation, chimera, illusions and guile has generated record profits for Goldman, Lehman, Merrill, etc. The process of […]

Choke point for oil sands may be water shortage

The amount of water available in Northern Alberta isn’t sufficient to accommodate both the needs of burgeoning oil sands development and preserve the Athabasca River, contends a study issued jointly yesterday by the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta. The study, written in part by Dr. David Schindler, a University of Alberta biologist […]

Honda to debut hydrogen fuel-cell car in 2008

However, Honda now intends to put a third-generation FCX into low-rate production from 2008 and lease it to an unspecified number of individuals in the US and Japan (“many, many more”, apparently). The big snag for FCX drivers will be filling up with hydrogen. There is only one hydrogen station in DC and a handful […]

Opec urged to boost oil output amid shortages

Fears that world oil prices could soar to record levels of $80 a barrel this year emerged today as a leading think-tank urged Opec to increase global production of crude. The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) gave warning that unless Opec members pushed up output by more than two million barrels a day in the […]

Fact Sheets of Iran-US Standoff

Here, we examine and debunk the common myths and charges against Iran and provide a list of twenty reasons to oppose sanctions and military intervention in Iran. The Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) calls for immediate and direct negotiations between the US and Iran without any pre-conditions in order to avert […]

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