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Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy
Top Obama Energy Official Says Administration Rejects “Keep It In The Ground” As Climate Strategy “We’re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the ground…that’s not a position.” This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was asked what he thought of the “growing movement of keeping oil […]
Peak Oil: Where To Begin?
Peak Oil: Where To Begin? The unpleasant truth now and soon is that the ready supply of oil and gas which we almost always take for granted [the occasional price spike notwithstanding] is on its way to becoming not-so-ready. A host of factors now in place are steadily converting possibility into likelihood. Thinking that we’ll […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 7
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 7 I began last week’s post with a variation of these questions: How do optimistic projections from ExxonMobil’s “The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040” report—which I highlighted in that post—square themselves in the face of the oil production challenges suggested by the news excerpts which were also […]
Germany About To Make Big Changes To Its Renewables Policy
Germany About To Make Big Changes To Its Renewables Policy On Earth Day, some 171 nations formally signed the Paris climate agreement; it was a mostly symbolic, though meaningful next step. The document now awaits individual ratification and, more specifically, ratification by 55 countries representing 55 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. When and from where those […]
The sustainable energy transition: a “back of the envelope” calculation
The sustainable energy transition: a “back of the envelope” calculation Image source. “Back of the Envelope” calculations are a tradition in science and often turn out to be able to provide plenty of useful information, at the same time avoiding the common pitfall of complex models, that of being able to fit anything provided that […]
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe
Gov’t Is Incapable of Managing Anything – The Electric Crisis in Europe Part of the global warming/climate change deals, many people do not realize that in Europe there will be no more gasoline and diesel cars on the streets come 2020. From Norway to India the year 2020 will mark the end of petrol or […]
The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning
The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning Colorado’s high court today struck down the rights of Coloradans to enact local fracking bans. It’s no surprise, given the massive sway of the oil and gas industry in the state. The suit was brought against Longmont (which passed a popular fracking ban in 2012) by Gov. John Hickenlooper and his […]
Why Canada’s Oil Industry May Never Be the Same
Why Canada’s Oil Industry May Never Be the Same Never is a long time. The dictionary definition is, “at no time in the past or future; on no occasion; not ever.” In the volatile oil and gas industry, those who try to look that far into the future and predict anything with certainty are invariably […]
We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry—Will It Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It?
We Could Be Witnessing the Death of the Fossil Fuel Industry—Will It Take the Rest of the Economy Down With It? In just two decades, the total value of the energy being produced via fossil fuel extraction has plummeted by more than half. Now $3 trillion of debt is at risk. Photo Credit: Pixabay It’s […]
Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years
Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth A report commissioned on behalf of a cross-party group of British MPs authored by a former UK government advisor, the first of its kind, says that industrial civilisation is currently on […]
Changing Everything
Changing Everything Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive demonstrations, legislative fiat or some other strategy, but the goal is generally […]
Farewell fossil fuels? Biomass broken down without chemicals for 1st time, study claims
Farewell fossil fuels? Biomass broken down without chemicals for 1st time, study claims © Nigel Roddis / Reuters Scientists have made a huge leap in lessening our dependence on fossil fuels, managing to break down raw biomass without using chemicals for the very first time. The result was record high amounts of clean liquid hydrocarbon […]
We’re Not Going To Make It…
We’re Not Going To Make It… …without real sacrifice Right now I’m on a Metro North train heading the NYC. I’ve been invited to sit on an advisory council at the UN on building a sustainable energy future. I’ll let you know how the meeting goes, after I take a few selfies to immortalize the experience in […]
Again and again: supposed evidence for decoupling emissions from growth is not what it seems
Again and again: supposed evidence for decoupling emissions from growth is not what it seems It can be difficult to form a view of what’s really going on in our atmosphere, given the amount of information and of contradictory claims. This piece concerns recent reports on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and levels. On 16th March, […]
Reframing The Economics Debate Could Lead To More Action To Fight Climate Change
Reframing The Economics Debate Could Lead To More Action To Fight Climate Change As a country, the United States has been very slow to react to climate change. Part of the problem is that our politics has been corrupted by the influence of fossil fuel money. The other part is that the constant stream of […]
