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Environmentalists Join Forces in New Orleans To Foster A Growing Alliance to Combat Climate Change and Fossil Fuels
Environmentalists Join Forces in New Orleans To Foster A Growing Alliance to Combat Climate Change and Fossil Fuels “It is time we wake up the world to stop abusing and destroying a gift of life – before it is too late,” Chief Arvil Looking Horse from South Dakota said to a group of environmentalists from across […]
Peak Oil: Choosing Chaos … or Not
Peak Oil: Choosing Chaos … or Not If/when a petroleum shortage impacts it will concentrate minds wonderfully. But when it comes the window of opportunity could be brief and risky. If things deteriorate too far too fast there could easily be too much chaos for sense to prevail and for us to organize cooperative local alternative systems. […]
Our economic growth system is reaching limits in a strange way
Our economic growth system is reaching limits in a strange way Economic growth never seems to be as high as those making forecasts would like it to be. This is a record of recent forecasts by the International Monetary Fund: Figure 1. World GDP Forecasts by the International Monetary Fund. Figure 2 shows world economic growth […]
Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki
Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki ‘We have to rethink everything’ says noted environmentalist. A Tyee Q&A. David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip at a media scrum outside the B.C. Superior Court Monday morning. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa. Flooding valuable farmland to build the Site C dam undermines Canada’s commitment to meet […]
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 3
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 3 … [T]here is no intellectually honest way to believe that the world can continue its near-total reliance on fossil fuels for much more than another decade — a paltry window of opportunity. We also know that we cannot wait until they go into decline before reaching for renewables […]
IEA in Davos 2016 warns of higher oil prices in a few years’ time
IEA in Davos 2016 warns of higher oil prices in a few years’ time World Economic Forum The Transformation of Energy Fig 1: WEF energy panellists 22/1/2016 From right to left: moderator Daniel Yergin (IHS), Fatih Birol (IEA), Hiroaki Nakanishi (Hitachi), Ignacio Sánchez (Iberdrola), Eric Xin Luo (Shunfeng International Clean Energy) This recent forum was […]
Hottest Year Ever Recorded + Collapsing Oil Prices = Broken Fossil Fuel Economy
Hottest Year Ever Recorded + Collapsing Oil Prices = Broken Fossil Fuel Economy “I read the news today, oh boy.” —John Lennon Two overlapping news stories in the past few weeks must focus our attention on the need to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible and to transition our global economy to […]
Peak Oil: One-Sentence Problem-Solving
Peak Oil: One-Sentence Problem-Solving As is still the case—unfortunately, for all of us—there remains a sizeable number of individuals, organizations, and other associations determined at all costs [literally] to preserve the primacy of fossil fuels to power us into the future. Facts: good when they can be massaged to fit the partial-truth narrative required to […]
Psst, Trudeau: IMF Now Pegs Our Fossil Fuel Subsidies at $46 Billion
Psst, Trudeau: IMF Now Pegs Our Fossil Fuel Subsidies at $46 Billion Fastest way to transition Canada to a green economy? Quit the giveaways. According to IMF economists, Canadian carbon-based fuels should be taxed an additional $17.2 billion annually to compensate for climate change. Oil photo via Shutterstock. Justin Trudeau has a problem. How can Canada meet […]
‘Occupied’ Norway a window into our fossil fuel addiction
‘Occupied’ Norway a window into our fossil fuel addiction Okay, I admit that the premise of Norwegian television’s new political thriller series “Occupied” is far-fetched. But that premise is a window on just how addicted to fossil fuels we are. In “Occupied” Norway’s Green Party wins parliamentary elections and makes good on its (not-altogether-fictional) promise to shut […]
Energy Lobbyists Gather, Blame Obama and the Pope
Energy Lobbyists Gather, Blame Obama and the Pope Last week, on the day after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that 2015 was by far the hottest year on record, the energy industry’s chief lobbyists gathered in a downtown Washington ballroom to tell each other that the real problem was not global warming, but rather efforts by […]
Nature Produces Renewable Energy–Let’s Capture It!
NATURE PRODUCES RENEWABLE ENERGY — LET’S CAPTURE IT! Transitioning away from fossil fuels and towards renewable energy is a hot topic right now. Well, natural processes harvest renewable energy all the time, and release it in excess to be recycled! When the focus is on stacking functions and transforming waste into resources, this becomes apparent–a […]
Energy round-up: six predictions for 2016
Energy round-up: six predictions for 2016 Photo credit: James Russell 2015 proved to be an interesting year for energy and climate issues both globally and in the UK. Will 2016 hold more of the same? Forecasting is a dangerous business, but here are six predictions you should keep an eye on. 1) The showdown on oil prices between […]
Where actually is that much-hyped global oil glut?
Where actually is that much-hyped global oil glut? The media is full with news that there is a global oil glut. There are now more than 3bn barrels of excess oil in the world 13/11/2015 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/oilprices/11993687/There-are-now-more-than-3bn-barrels-of-excess-oil-in-the-world.html Record oil glut stands at 3bn barrels 13/11/2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34808487 It was parroted by the Australian public broadcaster ABC TV, […]
