The world could soon be “locked-in” to dangerous climate change, IEA warns
Don’t let speculation distract us from peak oil
Oil production has flat-lined since 2005—and any analysis of oil prices has to take that into account, economist says
The Climate Post: Ethanol Tax Breaks Survive, but Vote May Have “Broken the Dam”
Oil prices threaten pushing the economy into a “double-dip recession,” says the International Energy Agency, and why the loss the sunspots won’t lead to a new “little ice age”
Why OPEC may simply fade away
The oil cartel’s main purpose seems to have vanished, a sign that times have changed and the rest of the world needs to adapt—fast
The Climate Post: Obama Aims for Elusive Goal of Energy Independence
Smart grid fears, breakthroughs in developing an artificial leaf, and a court battle over TV portrayal of an electric roadster—and more in this week’s news round-up
Opening the future
How will our choices shape the future? With a new approach to how the climate community develops scenarios, researchers are coming closer to answering it.
The Climate Post: Obama’s new budget would make Big Oil pay for clean energy
In this week’s roundup of climate and energy news: budget battles, foodpocalypse, PetroLeaks, and more
Peak oil and our finite world; or, in praise of waste
Shortages won’t bring on a “Mad Max” world, Krugman argues—and we have our wasteful ways to thank for that
America is falling apart—and selling the pieces
Time to start looking for a prosperous way down, for ways of failing gracefully
“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
—economist John Maynard Keynes
