Overpopulation, Are We Flucked?

Overpopulation occurs when a population’s density exceeds the capacity of the environment to supply the health requirements for the individuals Here are some links for you : More on exponential growth and doubling time (first out of 8 vids) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5iFES… “Science Summit” on world population: http://dieoff.org/page75.htm PRB’s World Population Data Sheet (statistics, charts and other […]

oil addiction rock bottom calls for intervention

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., featured in the movie FUEL, reports that while mainstream news panders to the right that is blaming the Obama administration for the latest Gulf Coast oil disaster, the real villain was President Bush and his cronies’ “sex, lies and oil spills” for profit. “For eight years, George Bush’s presidency infected the […]

BP considers smaller dome after ice thwarts containment box

The containment box plan, never before tried at such depths, had been designed to siphon up to 85 percent of the leaking oil. It had taken about two weeks to build the box and three days to cart the containment box 50 miles out and slowly lower it to the well a mile below the […]

Is Gulf oil rig disaster far worse than we’re being told?

Even the word “spill” is incorrect. This isn’t some ship of oil that spilled into the ocean — it’s a “volcano” of oil spewing from the belly of Mother Earth herself. It’s under extremely high pressure, it’s spewing a huge volume of oil directly into the ocean, and there so far seems to be no […]

Will We All Live in Megacities Soon?

Today, on average, 3 out of 4 people living in modern industrialized states are already building their lives within an urban area — a ratio that will jump to more than 5 in 6 by 2050. By contrast, today in the least-developed regions of the world, more than 2 out of 3 people still eke […]

‘Peak Oil Demand,’ Yes… But Not the Nice Kind

The most promising effort I’ve seen to quantify the role of efficiency in peak demand was a report in October of last year by Paul Sankey of Deutsche Bank entitled, “The Peak Oil Market.” My initial excitement quickly gave way to disappointment as dug into it, however, as I realized that its confident assertions were […]

Gulf Arab states unfazed by oil price slump

“I am never worried,” Ali al-Naimi, oil minister of OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, told reporters when asked if he was concerned about the sharp dip in oil prices last week. “OPEC is not standing still. OPEC is always in movement,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the Arab Energy Conference which began on Sunday […]

Shale-Gas Boom May Stall as Price Slump Erodes Cash

Drilling in U.S. shale-gas formations may tumble as companies run short of cash after prices for the fuel languished below the cost of production for more than a year. Natural-gas explorers will realize the need to cut drilling in the next few months, said Murry Gerber, chairman of EQT Corp., the largest producer in the […]

Collapse of the heroic, rise of an alternative

“Communal life — our tribal past — valued the group over the individual. We left our communal past to put the individual’s benefit (and especially material benefit) before the common good, in the process losing much of our memory of community.” “In this time of rapidly approaching limits we need the gifts of both community […]

Will Peak Oil Turn Flying Into Something Only Rich People Can Afford?

“At $150 dollars a barrel, the air industry is barely viable,” Romm said. “At $200 a barrel, it’s going to revert to the way it used to be, which is something that only rich people do.” The glory age of the airline industry may be coming to an end. The institutional challenges the aviation industry […]

Pakistan tests 2 missiles, wants nuke recognition

Pakistan has refused to sign nonproliferation accords and faces a nuclear trade ban. “Energy is a vital economic security need of Pakistan and nuclear energy is a clean way forward,” the statement said. Pakistan became a declared nuclear power in 1998 by conducting nuclear tests in response to those carried out by India. Islamabad test-fired […]

Oil production hit for decades after BP spill

“They can’t ban deepwater because the industry has nowhere else to go”, says chairman John Westwood. Newedge USA say if the moratorium on new drilling, announced by President Barack Obama after the accident drags on, oil supply could suffer a shortfall of up to one mb/d by 2016 to 2018. Another analyst said: “They wouldn’t […]

BP CEO says oil disaster will transform industry

“This has been a transforming moment for the deepwater oil industry, not only in the United States, but in the world. Exactly how that transformation will occur is not possible to say right in the heart of the response. Things will be different and they clearly need to be.” Fifty miles offshore from Venice, engineers […]

India’s Govt gets to control nat gas prices

Bernstein Research said in the longer term the key point is that the government will become the de facto regulator of both onshore and offshore gas prices. “This is important because we believe that RIL needs prices higher than $4.2 per mBtu to develop the next phase of its deepwater gas fields. Assuming the government […]

Coast Guard, MMS to Launch Oil Rig Investigation

Beginning on Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) will co-chair an investigation to identify the factors leading to the explosion, loss of life, sinking, and subsequent oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon. MMS and the Coast Guard will convene a public hearing for the joint […]

New Report: Gas bubble triggered oil rig blast

The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP’s internal investigation. The […]

Noam Chomsky on Peak Oil

Peak oil is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. The concept is based on the observed production rates of individual oil wells, and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells. The aggregate production rate […]

Peak oil? Pfft!

Peak oil theorists have been wrong at least 10 times since the 1970s. We have, maybe, 800 years of supply before we run out if we find no more reserves, an unlikely possibility. We won’t run out of oil, gas or coal. Their use will decline as renewables become more viable and cost effective and […]

U.S. Food Inflation Spiraling Out of Control

Some of the startling food price increases on a year-over-year basis include, fresh and dry vegetables up 56.1%, fresh fruits and melons up 28.8%, eggs for fresh use up 33.6%, pork up 19.1%, beef and veal up 10.7% and dairy products up 9.7%. On October 30th, 2009, NIA predicted that inflation would appear next in […]

Regulator Deferred to Oil Industry on Offshore Rig Safety

Federal agency continues to allow the oil industry largely to police itself, saying that the best technical experts work for industry, not for the government. Critics say that, then and now, the minerals service has been crippled by this dependence on industry and by a climate of regulatory indulgence. “Everything that’s done by the oil […]

Iran offers to help contain US oil spill

The National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) has offered to assist the US in efforts to prevent an ecological disaster caused by the spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Following an explosion on a BP-operated oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico last month, at least 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) of crude oil are […]

China Misses 2010 Energy Goals

With less than eight months left, China’s chance to cut energy intensity by 20 percent between 2006 and 2010 seems rather slim at best. After a hard-won decline of 14.38 percent in energy consumption per unit of GDP between 2006-2009, China saw a 3.2 percent rebound in energy intensity in the first quarter of this […]

Was the Gulf Oil Spill an Act of War?

As a recent article in The Huffington Post noted: “Giant oil-services provider Halliburton may be a primary suspect in the investigation into the oil rig explosion that has devastated the Gulf Coast, The Wall Street Journal reports. Though the investigation into the explosion that sank the Deepwater Horizon site is still in its early stages, […]

Scientists decry “assaults” on climate research

More than 250 U.S. scientists on Thursday defended climate change research against “political assaults” and warned that any delay in tackling global warming heightens the risk of a planet-wide catastrophe. The scientists, all members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, targeted critics who have urged postponing any action against climate change because of alleged […]

The Dangerous Myth Of Overpopulation

This shocking report went farther than any UN report has ever gone before in linking climate change with overpopulation. According to the report, the only way to avoid a massive climate disaster is to dramatically increase “family planning” services around the globe and to do whatever it takes to reduce worldwide fertility rates. In a […]

Sabotage! Conspiracy! And Other Ways to Spin the Oil Spill

It began with Rush Limbaugh, who surmised a motive: “[W]hat better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I’m just noting the timing here,” Limbaugh said, vaguely suggesting that supporters of cap-and-trade, or maybe the Obama administration, had been responsible. “We’re seeing the Rahm Emanuel rule number […]

Keeping the profit in oil and persistent war

The US military has invested heavily in creating a panic atmosphere, concerning the so-called “peak oil” issue. Because the American military seems to be worried about tomorrow’s fuel, “peak oil” concerns are given legitimacy and a personal sense of urgency that would not otherwise be possible. Military leaders seem more concerned with ensuring that war […]

Iran-backed bloc tries to take power in Iraq

Iraq’s Shia Muslim parties have formed a parliamentary alliance that will keep the country’s Sunni minority out of power and could spark a new round of sectarian violence. Two months after landmark elections, the State of Law party of Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister, and the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), which is dominated by Moqtadr […]

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions fell record 7% last year

Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell a record 7% last year, due partly to the economic downturn, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. While emissions have fallen in three of the last four years, 2009’s drop was the largest since the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) began keeping comprehensive data in 1949. USA Today

Google Puts Millions in Wind Farms

On Friday we made our first direct investment in a utility-scale renewable energy project — two wind farms that generate 169.5 megawatts of power, enough to power more than 55,000 homes. These wind farms, developed by NextEra Energy Resources, harness power from one of the world’s richest wind resources in the North Dakota plains and […]

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