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Era of Cheap, Easy Oil is Over, Warns Sudy |
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By Louise Gray -- Oct. 8, 2009 -- The world could start to run out of oil in the next ten years, sparking soaring energy prices and a rush for even more polluting fossil fuels, an influential new study by the UK Energy Research Council has warned. (Full Article) |
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Memo to the President-elect on Energy Realism and the Green New Deal |
by Richard Heinberg -- Dec. 2008 -- The current economic crisis requires substantial national policy shifts and enormous new government injections of capital into the economy. This provides an opportunity for a project whose scope would otherwise be inconceivable: a large-scale, coordinated energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy. (Full Article)
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The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power |
by Lester Brown -- Oct. 28, 2008 -- Over the last few years the nuclear industry has used concerns about climate change to argue for a nuclear revival. Although industry representatives may have convinced some political leaders that this is a good idea, there is little evidence of private capital investing in nuclear plants in competitive electricity markets. The reason is simple: nuclear power is uneconomical. (Full Article)
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Worldchanging Team -- Sept. 21, 2008 -- Cap and trade commits a region to responsible limits on global warming emissions; gradually ratchets down those limits over time; and harnesses the power of the marketplace to reduce emissions as smoothly, efficiently, and cost-effectively as possible. (Full Article)
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What Will We Eat as the Oil Runs Out? |
by Richard Heinberg -- Nov. 22, 2007 -- Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels. (Full Article)
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Is World Oil Production Peaking? |
by Lester Brown -- Nov. 5, 2007 -- Is world oil production peaking? Quite possibly. Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) show a pronounced loss of momentum in the growth of oil production during the last few years. After climbing from 82.90 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2004 to 84.15 mb/d in 2005, output only increased to 84.80 mb/d in 2006 and then declined to 84.62 mb/d during the first 10 months of 2007. (Full Article)
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Energy Transition - An Overview |
by Dynamic Cities Project -- The combined impacts of peak oil and climate change will drive a global transition away from cheap oil and gas over the coming decades, and that we are, today, in the first stages of that massive and unprecedented transition. (Full Article)
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by Sightline -- Nov. 2007 -- What's the difference between cap and trade and carbon taxes? Which cap-and-trade system is fairest? Which might be most effective at slashing greenhouse gas emissions? Our primer is a step-by-step look. (Full Article)
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by Gail E. Tverberg -- Aug. 7, 2007 -- In this chapter, we will look at the implications of peak oil now -- how we can expect oil production to change between now and 2030, and how this decline in production is likely to affect the economy. This analysis will assume that the peak year is 2006, with the decline starting in 2007. (Full Article)
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Carbon Capping: A Citizen's Guide (Must Read) |
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by Peter Barnes -- 2007 -- To meet the climate crisis, America must design and install an economy-wide system for reducing our use of the atmosphere as a waste dump. A carbon cap functions through the issuance of permits. Each year the number of permits is reduced. To cut emissions 80 percent in 40 years, we’d reduce the number of permits by an average of 2 percent a year. (Full Article) |
The Oil Depletion Protocol is an international agreement that will enable nations of the world to cooperatively reduce their dependence on oil. It was proposed by Dr. Colin Campbell in 1996. In 2005, Richard Heinberg began working on the book, The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse, which highlights the need for the implementation of the Oil Depletion Protocol and suggests ways in which the Protocol can be adopted. (Full Article) (History: Idea to Project)
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What are our Alternatives, if Fossil Fuels are a Problem? |
by Gail E. Tverberg -- Mar. 31, 2007 -- Demand for both oil and natural gas continues to rise each year, as the result of China, India and other countries wanting to adopt a lifestyle more like that in the United States. World oil supply is likely to decline in the near future. With demand increasing and supply decreasing, there is certain to be a significant gap in the not too distant future. (Full Article)
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Influence Powerholders 