'We can survive – but we must change`

…Human population has been on overdrive since the Civil War, he said, and a sustainable level of human population may be no more than 1 billion people. That has created quite a predicament — the long emergency. A group of 500 scientists gathered for an energy conference in Denver last fall agreed that the global […]

Oil Caused Recession, Not Wall Street

There is a lot of oil about. A lot left in the ground and a lot being produced. Amidst the contention, it is easy to overlook that Peak Oil is called Peak Oil because this is when we will never be more awash in the black stuff. The abundant availability of oil buoys skepticism. Peak […]

Give it the gas

On the road to a cleaner energy future, natural gas offers an alternative route Every few weeks, it seems, fresh news arrives telling of impressive discoveries of oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico, an area that, until recently, was viewed as well worked over and unlikely to yield any new bonanzas. Last September […]

Water woes are headed eastward

Mark Twain famously said that, in California, water flows uphill toward money. But political machinations, such as the water grab that enabled the metropolis of Los Angeles to sprout in a land of little rain, aren’t uniquely Californian. Today the epic water rights battles fought in the arid West In 2007, a Southeast drought provoked […]

Sniffing Oil From The Sky

Here’s a curious place to look for an oil field buried under thousands of feet of rock: the sky. But that’s where Royal Dutch Shell is heading in an attempt to survey huge tracts of rugged and remote terrain that might be hiding oil. The trick is an instrument Shell is perfecting that can sniff […]

Fewer temperature reports could mean warming underestimated: scientist

Environment Canada says climate scientists who track global temperature trends may be underestimating the amount of warming in the Canadian Arctic, because they are working with data from a declining sample of weather stations across the region. A U.S. government agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, compiles an important database of historic surface temperatures, […]

Greenland financial independence predicted by 2015

Mineral and oil income is expected, within five years, to surpass the current handouts from Copenhagen that Greenland lives off. Negating the need for the DKK 3 billion (USD 580 million) handout means that national financial independence may be just a few short years away, according to forecasts from the leader of the Raw Materials […]

Global warming? Don

Senior General Motors executive Bob Lutz has slammed scientists and environmentalists, saying global warming has little to do with humans and more to do with solar flares and sunspots. The self-confessed petrolhead and man who proudly claims to be a progenitor of the Chevrolet Volt electric car (due in Australia in 2012) still scoffs at […]

Oil Estimates in Venezuela Doubled

Venezuela has long been known to hold some of the world The tally far exceeds previous estimates of around 235 billion barrels, and it represents

Nations stick to CO2 goals before January deadline

OSLO (Reuters) – The world is showing only lukewarm enthusiasm for a “Copenhagen Accord” to curb climate change, with no sign so far of deeper-than-planned 2020 curbs on greenhouse gas emissions before a January 31 deadline. In Brussels, a draft European Union letter on Friday showed plans for the 27-nation bloc to reiterate a minimum […]

Are You Prepared for the 5 Deadly Emergencies?

The global economy is an amazing study in contradictions. China and India both seem to be booming again, while our economy and nation has some serious problems. America Meanwhile, commodity prices are climbing

Schork Oil Outlook: Refiners Can't Afford Crude

It looks like we are ramping up turnarounds. Capacity utilization rates plunged by 292 bps to 78.4%. In fact, last week However, in light of poor economics, refiners have an incentive to move up their maintenance schedules this season. Refinery throughput is low because of poor margins. Margins are poor because refiners cannot pass along […]

India

Like all world economies, India does not today have particularly good options regarding its energy needs. In the short term, it has little choice but to ramp up purchasing of fossil fuels. And while India would like to increase its use of renewable energy sources – like virtually everyone else except for the oil companies […]

Should energy independence be a high priority in the US?

The year is 2013, five years after peak oil. Gas is now over 11.00 a gallon. The average American no longer drives a car. Only the government and the military have access to large amounts of gasoline. It is a world none of us could have imagined. The average American family of four has made […]

A Drawback to Urban Green Spaces

While city dwellers are always clamoring for more green space, urban parks may not always be as

California to Subsidize Solar Water Heaters

California regulators on Thursday approved a $350 million program to subsidize the installation of solar water heaters to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The program will allocate $250 million for the replacement of hot water heaters fueled by natural gas and $100.8 million for those powered by electricity. Solar hot water systems typically consist of a […]

Warming Expected to Cut Atlantic Hurricane Tally but Boost Threat

A new modeling study published in this week The two maps below, produced for the study by the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton, are based on a climate model comparing the production of strong hurricanes in conditions mimicking the current climate (basically, average climate conditions from 1980 to 2006) with hurricane production in conditions […]

Climate Cover Up: How to Manipulate Public Opinion

Stolen emails and erroneous predictions have damaged the image of climate science, leaving many wondering if global warming is real. But this seemingly rational doubt, says the author of Who are the people behind what you call the

Past Decade Warmest Ever, NASA Data Shows

WASHINGTON James E. Hansen, director of NASA

Venezuela

(Bloomberg) — Planta Centro, Venezuela Venezuela is suffering its most severe electricity crisis in six years because of growing demand and a drought which cut water levels in the hydro dams that provide 73 percent of the country

Governments 'must tackle' roots of nature crisis

Governments must tackle the underlying causes of biodiversity loss if they are to stem the rate at which ecosystems and species are disappearing. That was one of the conclusions of an inter-governmental workshop in London held in preparation for October’s UN biodiversity summit in Nagoya, Japan. Delegates agreed that protecting nature would bring economic benefits […]

Canadian Operators Revive Oil Sands Projects

Companies are reviving projects in Canada’s oil-sands region, a sign that life is returning to an industry hit hard by the economic downturn. Two major oil-sands projects received funding this week. The Canadian arms of ConocoPhillips and Total SA said they are funding an expansion of their Surmont joint venture, and Calgary-based Husky Energy Inc. […]

India turns up heat over 'Glaciergate'

India’s environment minister, having faced accusations of practicing “voodoo science”, has been vindicated with the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations climate body’s prediction that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 being exposed as inaccurate speculation. After suffering blows from the “Climategate” scandal and the tumultuous and essentially failed Copenhagen climate conference last year, the credibility […]

Mickey Fulp: Race to Rare Earths Heats Up

Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp says that 2009’s “flavor of the year”—rare earth elements—will sport that same label in 2010. A major driving force, the momentum building in green technology, is expected to take global consumption to 200,000 tons annually by 2015 (from approximately 108,000 tons in 2007). At the same time, tight supplies will shrink […]

Peak phosphorous: mankind's latest threat

Some believe that dwindling supplies of potable water is humanity’s great resource challenge; others think it is the imminent prospect of “peak oil”. But an equally important milestone in modern history will be an inevitable tightening of global supplies of phosphorus.Phosphorus has underpinned the leaps made in agricultural productivity since World War II, and the […]

Oil Work Suspended In Angola's North Cabinda After Attack

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The search for oil in the north of Angola’s Cabinda enclave has been suspended after a recent attack on Togo’s soccer team in the region, a partner in the venture, Soco International PLC (SIA.LN), said Wednesday. The news underscores how the deadly rebel attack on the players who were heading to the […]

Popular Protests Put Brakes on Renewable Energy

Most Germans are in favor of the expansion of renewable energy — provided the plants aren’t built in their neighborhood. All over the country, local groups are coming together to stop solar, wind and biogas projects. But where can power plants be built if no one wants them in their backyard? Hans Fliege likes to […]

Saudi deaths in fight with Yemen rebels reach 113

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia The Al Riyadh newspaper quoted Maj. Gen. Ali Zaid al-Khawaji as saying the dead include a senior Saudi officer whose body was found with those of two soldiers after a battle last week to drive rebels out of a border . The latest toll is a significant jump from last week, when […]

John Michael Greer: Secret Handshakes

Last week Still, it interests me that so much of the discussion, as so often happens, went on as though history has nothing to teach us. One example out of many, and by no means the worst, is Astyk

Engineers find significant environmental impacts with algae-based biofuel

With many companies investing heavily in algae-based biofuels, researchers from the University of Virginia’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have found there are significant environmental hurdles to overcome before fuel production ramps up. They propose using wastewater as a solution to some of these challenges. These findings come after ExxonMobil invested $600 million last […]

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