Confessions of a statistician
What do we really know about oil market fundamentals? This discussion of the avoidable and unavoidable pitfalls in oil statistics will probably change your opinion.
Education
Other energy – June 3
Anger at oil chief’s $400m retirement package / Pelamis: a shot in the dark? (wave energy) / New Scientist report on energy and fuels / Squandering energy in the East / Mexicans cling tightly to `their’ oil
The newest guest at your dinner table: your car
Of the more than 6 billion people now on earth, 3.7 billion suffer from some form of malnutrition. For these reasons and others now does not seem like a good time to embark on a program to turn a significant portion of the world’s food crops into fuel for automobiles.
Planning for the peak oil in the SF North Bay
An Energy Vulnerability Summit in Petaluma, California, was perhaps the first time in history that local government officials have gotten together to learn about and discuss peak oil.
Will biofuels always be hopeless?
Do biofuels suck for deep fundamental unchangeable reasons? Or for contingent reasons that might be amenable to change over time with technological innovation? The answer might not be so obvious.
Peak oil – May 27
Kunstler: the suburban fantasy / Retired nuclear physicist traces his personal peak oil discovery process / Organizing to energize the community near Harvard / Report on the Energy Vulnerability Summit in N. California
Peak oil – May 26
Venturing forth ignorantly into the wilds of peak oil… / Farewell Jay (creator of dieoff stops blogging) / The ‘peak oil’ deja vu
Peak oil – May 24
Peak oil attacked from the right (Free Market News) / Peak oil attacked from the left (Greg Palast) / Bill Moyers speaks to graduates about peak oil, catastrophes and confusion
Former McDonald’s cook confesses
McDonald’s got me to college. I don’t just mean that I saved money by consuming tons of their cheap hamburgers and fries and gallons of milkshakes, which I did. I also worked there for three years, beginning at about $1 an hour.
Climate change: the debate is over
It is precisely because the climate crisis is so profound that we need to encourage the American debate on the subject to move on, finally and for good, and start to focusing on how to build a bright green future as quickly as possible…
Over the last few months, we here at Worldchanging and our allies at related sites across the blogosphere have seen a noticable uptick in comments and trackbacks from climate denialists.
Lundberg on the recent Peak Oil conferences
Coverage and commentary from a long-time activist on the two Peak Oil conferences earlier in May in Washington D.C.
What Clive Crook doesn’t know about energy will hurt him (and us too!)
While misleading articles about oil and energy are so numerous in the media these days that responding to them all would be an impossible task, it is occasionally worthwhile to critique a typical specimen so as to remain in practice.