US military plans for Arctic melting

The US military wants more budget to police Arctic sea lanes opened by global warming. Photo: Marion Doss via Flickr. As civilian Washington, with climate skeptics in the ascendant, continues to bicker about how-real and how-bad, the military has once again shown that, when it comes to global warming, it’s a much more reality-based organization […]

OPEC: a big increase in output

Platts’ monthly survey of OPEC output, which can be found here, showed a significant increase in December compared to November. Saudi Arabia increased its output; so did Iran and Iraq. Even Venezuela showed a slight upturn. Given the tight supply/demand balance at present, with OPEC output up until recently at levels less than the OPEC […]

Commentary: The Tierney-Simmons bet

Five years ago, John Tierney, a columnist with The New York Times, and Matt Simmons, peak oil guru and founder of energy investment bank Simmons & Co., made a bet. Simmons argued that oil prices would be much higher in 2010. Tierney, a believer in human ingenuity and a follower of economist Julian Simon, took […]

Thomas Malthus: Wrong Yesterday, Right Today?

Over the past five years, the world’s population has risen by roughly 80 million people annually, reaching an estimated 6.8 billion in 2009. Barring a sudden reversal in demographic trends, more than 9 billion people will inhabit Earth by 2050. Needless to say, the constellation of challenges created by population growth have placed potentially irreversible […]

Mike Ruppert: The Shooting Of Congresswoman Giffords

The shooting yesterday of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D, AZ) which also resulted in the deaths of six people and the wounding of 14 others was more than just a wake up call. My first reaction was that civil unrest in the midst of economic collapse and corruption calling into question the legitimacy and relevance of government […]

Peak Coal: the Olduvai perspective

Peak Coal. Some folks have begun eagerly researching this topic and writing about its timing, now that talk of Peak Oil is all around. The different outlooks on how and when the peak will occur are disparate, ranging from next year to a time many decades in the future. This post tries to view this […]

Peak oil and Global Warming

Professor Heinberg discusses the links between peak oil and global warming. We need to reduce our use of fossil fuels to prevent Global Warming.

Oil spill shuts down Trans Alaska Pipeline

A crude oil spill was found in the Fairbanks, Alaska portion of the Trans Alaska Pipeline Saturday morning. Production through the pipeline has been slowed to 5 percent as a result of the spill, according to a statement released by its operator, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. About 842,261 barrels of oil normally flow through the […]

Algeria: Riots Over Rising Food Prices

The police faced off against rioting youths, Muslim prayer leaders called for calm and the authorities canceled soccer games on Friday as Algeria tried to quell unrest over rising food prices. New clashes between youths and the police were reported in Annaba, Oran, Bouira and Bejaia. Youths have been rioting for days following sudden price […]

Swarm: Exploding humanity

More birth control, more sterilization — plus more education and prosperity — these are urgently needed to halt humanity’s lemminglike rush toward misery. Many senior West Virginians were born around 1930, when the world population was 2 billion and America had 123 million people.  By 2000, the global manswarm had passed 6 billion — tripling […]

The realities of global price rises

Food and its production have been a perennial concern for mankind since the dawn of time. Our main sources of food are derived primarily from the land but of all the world’s land mass, a mere 18 per cent is used for agricultural purposes. As this fraction cannot be substantially increased, it is crucial that […]

When The SHTF

“It’s a round planet last I checked,” as Bill Hicks used to say. Finite too. And one day we’re going to be reminded of that fact.

OPEC to cut supplies in January by most since August 2010

According to tanker tracker Oil Movements, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will reduce supplies this month by the most since August 2010 as demand for winter fuels in the northern hemisphere passes its peak. Oil Movements said that shipments will drop 1.3% to 23.6 million barrels a day in the four weeks to January […]

The extremely leisurely pace of American democracy and the urgency of our predicament

Winston Churchill once remarked that “[t]he United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.” The assumption behind that remark is that there will be time to do the right thing after all alternatives have been exhausted. This assumption is especially troubling when it comes to addressing such issues as peak […]

Coal will remain India’s principal fuel for next 40 years

Coal will remain the principal fuel to meet the country’s energy requirements for the next 30 to 40 years, despite intense efforts to promote the use of other sources of energy including renewable, according to O.P. Bhutani, Director (Engineering, Research and Development), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), New Delhi. Addressing a plenary session on challenges […]

Lifeboats: A Memoir

During the early days of The Farm,1971-1973, we learned a number of lessons that will be useful againnow that a rapid petrocollapse scenario is likely to come to pass.The Farm spiritual community emerged from a 50-bus caravan of 320Haight-Ashbury refugees fleeing hard drugs, exploitation andcounterculture tourism. After a year on the road the gypsy vagabondspooled […]

max keiser investigates the peak oil issue…

max keiser investigates the peak oil issue…

Energy use limits global economic growth

A new study has found that energy use has a direct impact on economic activity. Buzz up! Researchers have concluded that an “enormous” increase in energy supply will be required to meet the demands of projected world population growth and lift the developing world out of poverty without jeopardizing standards of living in most developed […]

Panel: Gulf oil spill could happen again

Disasters like the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig could happen again without significant reform, according to the conclusions of a presidential panel that has the companies involved in the nation’s largest oil spill pointing fingers at each other again. In a 48-page excerpt of its final report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, the […]

Peak Oil and Dating

Discuss openly your views about Peak Oil when dating and don’t put the discussion off too long….

Why Nuclear May Not be the Answer to Oil Shortages

If oil is in short supply, what should we do? One idea is to add nuclear, but this doesn’t work as well as one would like. The big issue I see is that nuclear power plants have a very long life. They are now being planned for a lifetime of 60 years. When one adds […]

ASPO-USA appoints Jan Mueller new executive director

In a bid to boost its influence on US energy policy, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas-USA has appointed a Washington policy insider and former campaign hand as the group’s full-time director, it said Thursday. Jan Mueller, now a senior policy associate of transportation and energy program associate at the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), will assume the position on March 1, ASPO-USA president and co-founder Jim Baldauf said. “We need to make inroads with decision-makers,” Baldauf said.  “Everybody knows about this issue but few are […]

Is there enough oil to repay debt?

The year 2010 left us all with a mountain of debt. Whether you’re a taxpayer in Britain, Ireland or the U.S., it must already be pretty clear that you’re on the hook for a lot of IOUs borrowed from your future. You may not have borrowed the money yourself, but your government has already done […]

Why are climate scientists ignoring peak oil and coal?

While criticising the pervasive obsession with infinite growth of our political and economic institutions, it appears that many (albeit not all) climate scientists hold the belief that human ingenuity will somehow substitute declining oil with different forms of natural-gas, liquefied-coal, shale gas, and other carbon fuels at prices that can sustain growth. For example, at […]

Is Sustainable Development Compatible with Western Civilization?

Sustainable Development is one of those terms that seems to have leapt into our vocabulary from nowhere Five years ago no one, apart from a few green philosophers, had ever heard of the term. Today, thanks largely to the publicity it received from the 1993 ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio, it has become common parlance. Politicians […]

The Oil Employment Link – Part 2 – Looking at more detail underlying History Chanel’s “Prophets of Doom” story

In Part 1, I talked about how there is a close tie between the amount of oil consumed and the number of people employed. US oil imports have been dropping, and there are strong indications that they may continue dropping–world supply is flat, and China, India, and oil exporter are taking a larger share of […]

Record-high food prices could go higher, UN warns

The United Nations’ food agency is warning that the price of food is at an all-time high, and appears set to climb even higher. According to the latest food price index released by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the monthly tally for its standard food basket of 55 items including cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat […]

High Poverty Neighborhood Tackles Peak Oil – First “Transition Slum” Launched

The Transition Movement has spread like wildfire across the planet. Yet when the Transition USA movement was featured in the New York Times, some interviewees grumbled that the touchy-feely hippy aspects were only appealing to a self-selecting niche of green minded people. Likewise, others have pondered how this community-lead response to peak oil and climate […]

Deepwater Horizon oil spill: The real cause is peak oil

The devastating report from the presidential commission on the Deepwater disaster spells out the reasons for the gigantic oil spill and the deaths of 11 men but not the root cause: the looming threat of peak oil. The report, to be released in full on Tuesday, is utterly damning. The safety failures of BP and […]

Jeff Rubin: Peak Oil Means Massive Sovereign Defaults

2010 left us all with a mountain of debt. Whether you’re a taxpayer in the UK, Ireland or the US, it must already be pretty clear that you’re on the hook for a lot of IOUs borrowed from your future. You may not have borrowed the money yourself, but your government has already done it […]

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