Also, U.S. has few options in the event of a massive oil shortage, and Los Angeles turns “carmageddon” into “carmaheaven”
The Climate Post: Australia’s Ambitious Scheme Sets World’s Highest Price on Emissions
Saudi Arabia—and the world—may soon face peak oil production, said Goldman Sachs, and San Francisco emulates Groupon to boost solar power
The Climate Post: Worldwide Energy Shortages Triggered by Drought, Subsidies
Plagues of jellyfish, stimulated in part by climate change, clogged up power plants, and China’s coal bonanza has had a cooling effect (for the short term)
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”
The Climate Post: OPEC Discord May Be “the Beginning of the End” of the Oil Cartel
General Motors’ CEO calls for higher gas taxes to push people to more efficient cars, and MIT researchers develop “Cambridge crude” to give electric cars more flexibility
The Climate Post: Record-breaking Greenhouse Gas Emissions, but Carbon Market Failing
In other news, Germany and Switzerland decided to abandon nuclear power, and industrial countries plead for more oil but OPEC is unlikely to supply it
The Climate Post: After Fukushima, Japan Vows to Boost Renewables
U.S. cars will get revamped efficiency labels, developed countries may have reached “peak travel,” and China suffers energy shortfalls
The Climate Post: U.K.’s “Greenest Government Ever” Charges Ahead with Nuclear Power
Also, nuclear warnings in Japan were raised but ignored, and Exxon’s CEO got rejected by students in favor of a peak oil expert
The Climate Post: The Clean and Dirty of Obama’s Energy Plan
In other news, a Koch Industries-funded project finds that global warming is in fact real, and environmentalist George Monbiot still stands up for nuclear
The Climate Post: Trace radiation isn’t the only global fallout from Fukushima
Emissions battles have their day in court, and pain at the pump continues, and the world’s biggest spam network is taken out—sparing the planet some emissions
