Alaska’s Coal: Flashpoint for Coming Climate Battles, By Richard Heinberg,...
If there is any place on planet Earth where we should dig in our heels against expanded coal mining, it is surely Alaska. Imagine the environmental travesty of ships by the hundreds laden with coal dug...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: China at a Turning Point, By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon...
This spring, I spent three weeks traveling around China and needless to say, I, along with every other visitor, was impressed by the economic progress the Chinese have made in the years since the...
View ArticleCarbon Crash Solar Dawn, By Paul Gilding, Post Carbon Institute
I think it’s time to call it. Renewables and associated storage, transport and digital technologies are so rapidly disrupting whole industries’ business models they are pushing the fossil fuel industry...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: Our Harsh Winter Continues, By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon...
Two weeks ago we discussed the impact that the polar vortex was having on our natural gas supplies and noted that our stocks of natural gas were already 500 billion cubic feet below where they should...
View ArticleExport Stupidity, By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
Congress is holding hearings this week on the possible lifting of a US oil export ban instituted in the 1970s to promote national energy self-sufficiency and has invited a number of “experts” with...
View ArticleThe Energy Independence Illusion, By John Kaufmann, Post Carbon Institute
Adapted and expanded from a presentation on “Energy Independence and Foreign Policy” to the World Affairs Council of Oregon, 3/28/14. BACKGROUND The roots of energy independence lie in the energy...
View ArticleIEA Says the Party’s Over, By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
The International Energy Agency has just released a new special report called “World Energy Investment Outlook” that should send policy makers screaming and running for the exits—if they are willing to...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: Iraq on the Precipice, By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon...
The daily newspapers are now full of stories predicting that Iraq, as we know it, will soon disintegrate into three or more warring states. In the last two weeks Sunni insurgents led by the extremist...
View ArticleChanging People’s Minds about Fossil Fuels
By Bill McKibben, Post Carbon Institute Word came recently that both the Philadelphia Quakers and the Unitarian General Assembly have decided to divest from fossil fuels. It followed by few weeks the...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: When?
By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon Institute For those following the world oil production situation, it has been clear for some time that the only factor keeping global crude output from moving lower is the...
View ArticleIntroducing Petrolify®: The Power of Petroleum in One Little Pill
By Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute Imagine there was a pill you could take every day that would provide you with wealth, freedom, and luxuries beyond the imagination of even the wealthiest kings of...
View ArticleFracking May Be Worse Than Burning Coal
By Bill McKibben, Post Carbon Institute If you’re a politician, science is a bitch; it resists spin. And a new set of studies—about, of all things, a simple molecule known as CH4—show that President...
View ArticleDrilling Deeper, Post Carbon Institute
By David Hughes, Post Carbon Institute Abstract Drilling Deeper reviews the twelve shale plays that account for 82% of the tight oil production and 88% of the shale gas production in the U.S....
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis: A Reality Check
By Tom Whipple, Post Carbon Institute For the last four or five years, we have been bombarded with a stream of stories about the “shale revolution.” Horizontal drilling and fracking, mostly in the...
View ArticleThe Peak Oil Crisis, Post Carbon Institute
By Tom Whipple I know that it is getting harder all the time to believe that there really is a “peak oil crisis” lurking out there waiting to engulf our civilization and create all sorts of havoc....
View ArticleAfter the Peak, Post Carbon Institute
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute Nearly 17 years ago the modern peak oil movement began with the publication of “The End of Cheap Oil” by petroleum geologists Colin Campbell and Jean...
View ArticleThe Year the Dam of Denial Breaks
By Paul Gilding, Post Carbon Institute This is the year the “dam of denial” will break and the momentum for climate action will become an unstoppable flood. It will be messy, confusing and endlessly...
View ArticleIs the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand?
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute In the grand poker game of geopolitics, energy is often the wild card. That’s why the Middle East is such a mess: Great Powers (first Britain, more recently...
View ArticleGoldilocks Is Dead
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute Five years ago I wrote an article for Reuters titled “Goldilocks and the Three Fuels.” In it, I discussed what I call the Goldilocks price zone for oil,...
View ArticleThe Silver Lining in the California Drought
By Sandra Postel, Post Carbon Institute Denial, it’s been said, is not just a river in Egypt. It runs, of course, through each of us. But Californians have displayed quite a dose of it as a...
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