A new report highlights how woefully unprepared the Government is for a looming peak in oil production
… Peak oil before 2020 a 'significant risk', say … October 2009 News Energy Climate Change Oil Peak Oil fuelgauge.jpg A new report highlights … unprepared the Government is for a looming peak in oil production There is a 'significant …
The end of cheap oil has got governments panicking to control prices rather than planning for a post-oil era. Tom Levitt reports
… Peak oil is 'getting closer' but the world is not ready Tom Levitt | 28th June 2011 News Peak Oil Energy Climate Change peakoil.jpg A peak in the production of oil is …
Climate change is a problem of fossil fuel dependency, and solving it requires reducing that dependency quickly and dramatically.
… Peak oil is welcome Richard Heinberg | 7th August 2008 Comment Peak Oil Carbon Climate Change Coal Gas Fossil … contraction faces a tough battle. The peaking in production rates of oil, coal and …
Heavy on the moralising, light on cheer, a new book on low-carbon living has Phil England reaching for the classics
… Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murphy Phil … Pat Murphy Plan C Transition Community Peak-oil Climate Change Comments And Analysis … plan for solving not only climate change and peak oil but also overpopulation, poverty and …
China's coal extraction and consumption peaked years ago and much sooner than anticipated. But the Silk Belt and Road Initiative – a massive foreign investments plan – seems to outsource China's emissions. Just like we in the West did, when we moved production to China. Ecological economists, FEDERICO DEMARIA and JOAN MARTINEZ ALIER report
… SPECIAL REPORT: China has a plan - Peak Coal and the new Silk Road Federico … .jpg China's coal extraction and consumption peaked years ago and much sooner than … countries - thus displacing carbon emissions. Peak Coal in China China is extracting an …
The time may soon be coming when every government will need to think about rationing fossil fuel usage. What's the quickest and most equitable way to do it?
… political parties fighting the next election. Peak oil tipping point Fleming believes the onset of peak oil could well force them to change their minds. Peak oil is the moment when global demand for …
The Leader of the US Senate says that under the China-US climate deal, China can 'do nothing at all for 16 years'. John Mathews and Hao Tan examine the claim - and find it's the very reverse of the truth. China is leading the world in greening its energy supply, and has committed to add a massive 1.3GW of renewable power capacity every week for 15 years. Now Mitch - beat that!
… president Xi Jinping can commit China to peaking its carbon emissions by 2030. In … observers expect China’s carbon emissions to peak well before that date, so there is room … that China's coal consumption would probably peak by 2020, at about 4.2 billion tonnes per …
How did Germany do it? No, not its World Cup victory - how did Germany engineer Europe's highest penetration of renewable energy, plus fast-dropping electricity prices? Keith Barnham explains - and says the UK could do the same, and better!
… In winter months there is a high evening peak around suppertime in both countries. As … sun is highest in the sky. It is close to the peak in the daytime electricity demand. In … PV electricity supply satisfies the daytime peak demand for electricity in Germany can be …
Colleague and friend Shaun Chamberlin pays tribute to the life and work of Dr David Fleming, founder of the idea of personal carbon trading
… 21st December 2010 Comment Dr. David Fleming Peak Oil Iea Transition Towns Rob Hopkins … thinker and one of the key whistleblowers on peak oil, has died aged 70. He was a … contribution to the world's awakening to peak oil. ' The next oil shock? ', Fleming's …
According to oil company executives, oil is going to be a major energy source to 2100 and beyond. So after hearing an oil man make his case, Chris Goodall went home and crunched some numbers. Money invested in solar power already produces more energy than if it's put into oil exploration and production, and the gap is only going to widen from here. Is this the new 'peak oil'?
… The new 'peak oil'? A dollar invested in solar yields … going to widen from here. Is this the new 'peak oil'? A couple of weeks ago, 300 …
China has just recorded its first fall in emissions from burning fossil fuels in 15 years, writes Lauri Myllyvirta. The sharp decline has surprised analysts, and reflects the fast growing proportion of renewables in the country's power supply.
… per year, respectively. Has China's coal burn peaked? China's coal consumption growth was … total energy consumption, could see coal use peak by 2020. China recently required four … capacity growth has slowed from the peak years - 2006 saw the equivalent of 1.5 …
A hundred years ago, markets ruled: fortunes were made, workers abused, bubbles blown. The Austrian School of economists, led by Ludwig von Mises, said this was fine: despite temporary messiness, the market knows best.
… Richard Heinberg | 5th February 2009 Comment PeakPeak Oil Carbon Energy Climate Economy … has reached physical limits to growth — peak oil and climate change — that spell ruin …
For environmentalists, tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of ordinary crude. But neither critique tells the full story: that exploiting tar sands may worsen both the climate crisis, and the energy crisis...
… Energy Climate Change Oil Tar Sands Alberta Peak Oil tarsandstruck.jpg For … tar sands are a 'climate crime'; for peak oil experts, they can never do the job of … as conventional oil production approaches its peak. Their modeling demonstrates that even …
Next month is the time for green activists to get together in the glorious Peak District, coordinate future actions on everything from fracking to road-building and climate change ... and of course, share the love, writes Indra donFrancesco, Yes, it's the Earth First! summer gathering, and there's never been stronger reasons to go.
… activists to get together in the glorious Peak District, coordinate future actions on … gatherings. And in 2015 we are taking to the Peak District This year we're in the Peak District from 19th to 21st August. The …
Many glaciers are melting away at a rapid rate. This could have serious consequences for half a billion people who depend on the ‘eternal snows’ to water their crops and for drinking. But as Jonathan Mitchell reports from Nepal, not everyone appears concerned
… sceptics visit. Though standing on Gokyo Peak, the view before you is spectacular and … thousands of smaller glaciers on less grand peaks. The ice has gone High up in the Everest … Nup La and over at Mount Thamserku - two peaks which dominate the horseshoe-shaped town …
A low carbon Britain rests on the electrification of our energy supply. But new research by the University of Surrey has highlighted the challenges facing government, market and civil society-led pathways to reducing emissions
… The results for year 2050 show that peak levels of demand can be very high: up to … happening to occur at times of low demand, peaking at 19 GW in Market Rules, 15 GW in … time. 'Time shifting' demand from periods of peak to off-peak, and from periods of low to …
Wind energy finally seems to be moving somewhere in the UK, but without some new techniques, our grid is simply not going to cope with this flood of new green power
… ago to mop up excess nuclear power during off-peak hours. But the potential to increase … occasionally exceeds total demand in off-peak hours, and with twice the capacity it would often exceed even peak demand (see graph below). Network …
The ancestors of America's Indians lived in Beringia - the land exposed during the last ice age that is now the Bering Strait - for millennia, genetic studies have determined. Scott Armstrong Elias reports.
… just as the last ice age was reaching its peak. Based on archaeological evidence, humans did not survive the last ice age's peak in northeastern Siberia, and yet there is … 30,000 years ago before the last ice age peaked, after this the archaeological record …
Rapping about climate change, big pharma and peak oil brings a new edge to a medium still saturated with lyrics of violence and consumerism
… 2009 Reviews Climate Change Hip Hop Rap Peak Oil Gift Of Gab Escape To Mars … Rapping about climate change, big pharma and peak oil brings a new edge to a medium still … 'Electric Waterfalls' he takes on Big Pharma, peak oil and hyperconsumerism). As a …
Anna Taylor takes a closer look at the worrying findings of a recently published study which, unusually, chose to assess potential climate change mitigation scenarios on the more widespread and common species found on our planet.....
… With mitigation, causing global emissions to peak in 2030 then decline, the proportion of … stringent mitigation, global emissions would peak in 2016. In fact, climate change would … by 60%. The authors state that "the date of peak emissions is arguably more important than …
The Transition Town movement has produced a year-by-year timeline to lead us to a happier, healthier society. Shaun Chamberlin outlines this vision - beginning with a landmark 2010 climate change accord
… And Energy Transition Town Climate Change Peak Oil transition-timeline.jpg The … introduced in UK World oil production reaches peak 2011 UK road expansion programme halted … 2015 ‘the Year of the Raised Bed' 2016 ‘Peak cars' on UK roads passed 2017 UK now …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… impending scarcity. Without doubt, oil has peaked. Not only is less crude being found; … But that is now in the past. Now it is really peak oil that is behind the wheel of the car. Peak oil is driving the rise in price and …
An intensive study of the flora of one meadow in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado over 39 years reveals a consistent long term pattern of change: first flowers 6 days per decade earlier, last flowers 3 days per decades later.
… than normal, one third are reaching their peak bloom well ahead of the traditional … species, including the first flowering, the peak flowering and the last blooms, along with … advanced by six days per decade, the spring peak is on average five days earlier per …
China and the US have jointly pledged to limit their greenhouse gas emissions, as the Presidents of the two countries met for talks today in Beijing. The move is boosting hopes for the UN climate summit in Paris in 2015 - but is it really enough to restrain temperature rises?
… emitter, promised that its emissions would peak in or before 2030. It's the first such … US support for China's efforts to "slow, peak and then reverse the course of China's … change ever more seriously and intends to peak its emissions in next 15 years" , she …