[canis_lupus]

Beautiful information design, excellent Flash work.

Were I you, I'd contact the various SourceBook folks, art departments of the MSM, etc. I think they'd find this information very useful, especially the way you've designed it.

Good job!

[jivah]

Hi canis,

Thanks for the comments, I will look them up.

Cheers

[pitbull]

I like the animation, good job. How about one on peak oil now?

[MonteQuest]

Lots of peakoil videos at youtube.

Something like this animation on peak oil would be good as a visual aid.

[Graeme]

Groups Urge New Drive to Fight Oil-Climate Crisis

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ctivists and foreign policy experts held a public forum this weekend to launch what they hope will be "a combined international movement" to respond to the threats of climate change and the depletion of oil and other cheap energy sources.

They said no less than "planetary survival" is at stake.

"Confronting the Triple Crisis" brought 60 speakers from 16 countries to Washington, DC, the capital of a nation "whose way of life is one of the key drivers behind the global crises we face," according to a statement from conference organizer International Forum on Globalization (IFG).

The 3-day summit was the first of its kind to examine climate change, peak oil, and the extinction of species as one interconnected problem with common solutions, according to the IFG and co-sponsor Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

Speakers urged attendees to lobby their governments for more proactive climate change and energy policies and to make specific adjustments in their own lives to help mitigate the challenges the world faces. Among other personal initiatives, they suggested using more public transportation and consuming fewer -- not just "greener" -- products.

The Teach-In also coincided with the publication of the "Manifesto on Global Economic Transitions," an international call to action that upholds the idea of "less and local" -- buying fewer things and those that are produced nearby -- as a way to ensure a global transition towards a safer, more equitable, and sustainable world.

[americandream]

If countries are prepared to shed life in war in order to preserve the current way of life, what hope have these deluded fools of changing them by exhortation.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'I')f countries are prepared to shed life in war in order to preserve the current way of life, what hope have these deluded fools of changing them by exhortation.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Doly', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'I')f countries are prepared to shed life in war in order to preserve the current way of life, what hope have these deluded fools of changing them by exhortation.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', ' ')(with the sixties, there was the risk of affiliation with the Soviets and all the underlying threat of armed struggle that carried.)

[alokin]

I know that's a bit optimistic:
Oil price will soar and US economy will face a deep recession.
As a result the Chinese can't sell their stuff to the US.
The rest of the world will face a depression as well.

Less goods, less transport = less CO2?

The climate will still change but maybe a bit less?
And if there are no buyers it makes no sense to replace the oil by coal.

But maybe this is only a very optimistic hope..

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('alokin', '
')Less goods, less transport = less CO2?

The climate will still change but maybe a bit less?

[dohboi]

Doly wrote

"Peak oil will reduce climate change, for example it has been proved that the worst-case scenario for emissions in the IPCC is incompatible with current calculations about peak oil."

The interaction between PO and GW is a very interesting one, but it must be pointed out that many of the worst case scenarios in the IPCC report have already been overtaken by facts on the ground. The rate of Artic melting, for one, is way ahead of what the IPCC predicted even in its worst case scenario. The scary thing is that the emissions don't have to add up to the quantities posed by IPCC to bring on catastrophic climate change. We seem to be already sliding down the slippery slope of runaway GW.

Also, it is my understanding that most transportation of goods, whether by ship, train, or tuck, is fueled by diesel, which is more plentiful than regular gasoline from light sweet crude. But I could be wrong here. Do/Can cargo ships run on coal? Perhaps some more informed than I in this area could chime in here?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', 'D')oly wrote

"Peak oil will reduce climate change, for example it has been proved that the worst-case scenario for emissions in the IPCC is incompatible with current calculations about peak oil."

The interaction between PO and GW is a very interesting one, but it must be pointed out that many of the worst case scenarios in the IPCC report have already been overtaken by facts on the ground. The rate of Artic melting, for one, is way ahead of what the IPCC predicted even in its worst case scenario. The scary thing is that the emissions don't have to add up to the quantities posed by IPCC to bring on catastrophic climate change. We seem to be already sliding down the slippery slope of runaway GW.

Also, it is my understanding that most transportation of goods, whether by ship, train, or tuck, is fueled by diesel, which is more plentiful than regular gasoline from light sweet crude. But I could be wrong here. Do/Can cargo ships run on coal? Perhaps some more informed than I in this area could chime in here?

[dohboi]

Thanks, Tanada. You are truly awesome!

So, since much of the fleet could convert to coal, will globalization roll happily along as the rest of us roll down the post peak slope?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dohboi', 'T')hanks, Tanada. You are truly awesome!

So, since much of the fleet could convert to coal, will globalization roll happily along as the rest of us roll down the post peak slope?

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zensui', 'I')s the world commerce more interdependant now than ever before? If so, isn't a depression very possible due to domino-effects from USA, China, India, Europe,...?

[Graeme]

2008 - the year peak oil joins climate change at the top of the agenda?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')s a couple of our resident peak oilers have already pointed out in comments (while some of us were off resting over the holidays), 2008 began with a bang on the peak oil front, with oil reaching US$100 on the very first day of trading in New York. While much of the mainstream media were still attributing this to geopolitics, the falling US dollar and a cold northern winter, all of which undeniably played a role, OPEC blew the whistle on the aspect which only a few are yet publicly acknowledging - demand is outstripping supply.

Today we’ve seen perhaps an even bigger shift, with the SMH reporting on page 1 that the CEO of General Motors, Rick Wagoner, opened the Detroit motor show overnight with a blunt statement that peak oil is here and the age of the petrol car is coming to an end.

Unfortunately, as far as I can see, the Herald is the only paper in Australia to have given this story any prominence. Perhaps the only one to cover it at all? Nevertheless, if Rick Wagoner is talking up the issue, it’s not going to go away, and the Rudd Government can either move now or get left behind, regardless of the lack of interest from the mainstream Australian media.

What Christine and the Greens have been advocating for some time now is a shift to a coherent and considered policy framework that addresses climate change and peak oil together. The most comprehensive statement on this so far is the report Re-Energising Australia, which you can read here. The emissions reduction targets now need upward revision in the light of the latest science and the Arctic ice melt, but the framework is nevertheless relevant. Fundamentally, we need fast action now to put Australia on track to a zero carbon future, with a short term challenge of making 2008 the year that Australia’s greenhouse emissions and oil use peak and start to come down.

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '[')b]2008 - the year peak oil joins climate change at the top of the agenda?

[kokoda]

If you read the article you would realise that the reporter actually used the term "peak oil" ... not the CEO of GM. Wagoner actually said that demand was outstripping supply ... which in itself is a big admission.

In the end the whole thing was just a sales pitch to sell an electric car that will hit the markets in around 2010. Have we hit peak oil? Maybe.

Will GM save us with their new electric car? Well that what they would want you to believe.

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kokoda', 'I')f you read the article you would realise that the reporter actually used the term "peak oil" ... not the CEO of GM.