Countering peak oil skeptics: a proposal
If we want more people to understand peak oil, we need a list of clear, understandable and approachable counter-arguments with data. This really needs a Wiki page.
Education
Resource Forecasting for the Geologically Challenged
Crude oil resource estimates tend to diverge to widely different values as the production curve gets close to peaking.
Climate policy – Nov 27
Self-preservation forcing wild species, businesses, planning officials to act
World’s largest science teacher’s organization to ignore climate change education?
Top court to hear emissions argument
Canada Liberals propose sweeping ‘green’ changes
Admiral Rickover: The future of fossil fuels
In 1957, U.S. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” delivered a startling speech on “Energy Resources and Our Future.” The speech prefigured the current peak oil analysis, calling our age the “fossil fuel age.” He warned that reserves are “likely to run out at some time between 2000 and 2050.”
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 26
Buying Local Doesn’t Hurt the Developing World
Museums as Post Peak Oil education tools
The buildings of tomorrow
Climate – Nov 22
Progress in stopping global warming (methane)
Pace of global warming causes alarm
Sir Nick Stern on climate change review
US: Climate change climate changing
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 22
Self-sufficiency plan for a suburban home
Science cafés: Knowledge in a casual setting
McKibben: Is corporate do-goodery for real?
Visionary architect William McDonough
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 20
Crisis and Risk: Categories and Mental Maps
Coming soon: a green Bill Gates
Composting toilets of the South Pacific
Money Is Material
David Suzuki interview
Solutions & sustainability – Nov 16
The Potential of Electrified Urban Rail and/or Electric Vehicles
Is CHP the future of home energy?
Making Mercedes in Ghana
UK shoppers dropping pounds from their waste
A bigger economy doesn’t buy happiness
Computer server farms increase efficiency
A green future for colleges
Association for the Debunking of Peak Oil, part 2
A good many of the things that Mr. Esser [from CERA] said to the subcommittee of the U.S. Congress are technically correct… They are also part of the very intelligent discussion that occurs whenever a group of Peak Oil aficionados gets together. It is not as if CERA has some monopoly on the magic elixir of understanding oil depletion issues, or the secret-decoder ring without which all others are flailing about in the dark.
Does the peak oil “myth” just fall down? – our response to CERA
The first of a comprehensive and in-depth set of rebuttals to the CERA report from The Oil Drum.
The peak oil crisis: the studies
Two major studies of the prospects for world energy supplies are underway in Washington. The first, dealing with peak oil, is being done by the Government Accountability Office and is to be released on February 28. The second and what on the surface sounds the most in-depth study of world energy resources ever undertaken is being done under the auspices of the National Petroleum Council (NPC).