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CLIMATE CRISIS

Debate: Interstellar and climate change

20th November 2014

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWdZVtXT7E] “We didn’t run out of planes and television sets. We ran out of food.” Acclaimed director Christopher Nolan’s new film Interstellar is inspired by the work of Kip Thorne, an American theoretical physicist formerly with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and who was the scientific consultant and an executive producer for the film. Interstellar depicts a…

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

14th November 2014

Stakes are high as US plays the oil card against Iran and Russia Larry Elliott, The Guardian UK With the help of its Saudi ally, Washington is trying to drive down the oil price by flooding an already weak market with crude. As the Russians and the Iranians are heavily dependent on oil exports, the…

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

7th November 2014

Oil Price Slide – No Good Way Out Gail Tverberg The world is in a dangerous place now. A large share of oil sellers need the revenue from oil sales. They have to continue producing, regardless of how low oil prices go unless they are stopped by bankruptcy, revolution, or something else that gives them…

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News update

4th November 2014

Why the Fracking Phenomenon Will Leave Us High and Dry Asher Miller, Post Carbon Institute A new, landmark report shows that hopes of a long-term golden era in American oil & gas production are unfounded. Eight Pieces of Our Oil Price Predicament Gail Tverberg A person might think that oil prices would be fairly stable. Prices would…

CLIMATE CRISIS

Two Talks with Bill McKibben – 7th November, Hyderabad

3rd November 2014

Bill McKibben, American environmentalist, author and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming, heads 350.org, which recently organised the People’s Climate March in New York, attended by an estimated 400,000 people. McKibben is the winner of the 2013 Gandhi Prize, Right Livelihood Award or the Alternative Nobel, and the Thomas Merton Prize….

Conflict/Dispossession

News update

15th October 2014

U.S. Streaks Past Saudi Arabia as World’s Largest Oil Producer Breitbart News The United States surpassed all other countries this year with daily crude oil and other petroleum liquids reaching 11 million barrels per day (mbd). Since the beginning of 2011, U.S. liquid fuels grew by more than 4 mbd, including 3 mbd of crude…

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

7th October 2014

Ebola: Uncharted territory for a system in overshoot Mary Odum, Prosperouswaydown.com We are in uncharted territory with the Ebola virus disease (EVD). This pandemic signifies a turning point for society in response to peak oil, highlighting the problem of globalization for a planet of 7 billion people. We have lost control of a deadly outbreak, and our responses to…

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

30th September 2014

Could Fighting Global Warming Be Cheap and Free? Paul Krugman, The New York Times In his latest column, well-known NYT columnist Krugman attacks, among others, the Post Carbon Institute, a leading think tank on Peak Oil and Climate Change, as wrong-headed and inducing “climate despair”. In a piece titled Paul Krugman’s Errors and Omissions the Post Carbon Institute’s Richard…

Conflict/Dispossession

Modi and the Environment: The 100 day report

28th September 2014

Basic protections to safeguard the environment, that were not particularly strong to begin with, are being wiped out. While in general, faster moving transparent government processes are required, the Modi government’s predilection for protecting private corporations at the expense of public welfare, does not bode well for the environment nor the well-being of India’s peoples….

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

22nd September 2014

Greenhouse Gas Pollution Sees Fastest Rise From The Scientific American Despite some recent regional reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and other industrial nations, the total concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continues its upward march at an unprecedented rate, the World Meteorological Organization has announced. Stand by for the ‘megadroughts’,…

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News update

12th September 2014

Trader Who Scored $100 Million Payday Bets Shale Is Dud From Bloomberg News Andy Hall, who was once awarded a $100 million trading bonus, has not seen his good fortune carry over to his bet on shale. How Did Oil Make a Comeback? Michael T. Klare, The Nation Just five years ago, experts were predicting…

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News update

3rd September 2014

Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we’re nearing collapse From The Guardian The 1972 book Limits to Growth, which predicted our civilisation would probably collapse some time this century, has been criticised as doomsday fantasy since it was published. Research from the University of Melbourne has found the book’s forecasts are accurate, 40 years…

CLIMATE CRISIS

News update

25th August 2014

If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, ‘We’re Fucked’: Climatologist From Vice.com Recently, scientists have made a disturbing discovery in the Arctic Ocean: They saw “vast methane plumes escaping from the seafloor,” as the Stockholm University put it in a release disclosing the observations. The plume of methane—a potent greenhouse gas that traps…

CLIMATE CRISIS

Event: Climate Catalysts 2014, Hyderabad

21st August 2014

Click on image to enlarge. For more information, visit the Indian Youth Climate Network website.

Economy

News update

13th August 2014

(Editor’s note: Rumours of another global economic meltdown has been doing the rounds of online forums for at least couple of years now, but of late there seems to be a spike in the commentary warning about such a possibility. Commentators offer different reasons for why this might happen, but what’s pertinent is that most…

Conflict/Dispossession

News update

4th August 2014

Amid Global Turmoil, Oil Prices Surprisingly Stable From Forbes Magazine The world has entered a zone of maximum upheaval. From the Atlas Mountains of North Africa to the Hindu Kush, in Afghanistan, the Middle East is in flames. The destruction of a Malaysian airline over Ukraine, almost certainly shot down by Russian-backed separatist rebels, threatens…

ENERGY

News update

18th July 2014

The oil industry’s fake abundance story From Kurt Cobb’s Resource Insights blog We now have nearly an entire population in the United States and nearly an entire media establishment that believes that oil is abundant–not because of the objective facts, but because of the oil industry’s highly successful public relations campaign, a campaign that is…

Conflict/Dispossession

News update

7th July 2014

The Peak Oil Crisis: Iraq on the Precipice From Oilprice.com ISIS now has control of one of three major refineries in Iraq which supplies the motor fuel and oil for power stations for the northern part of Iraq. Let’s assume, however, that before this year or next is out, Iraqi oil exports drop substantially as…

ENERGY

News update

19th June 2014

Iraq crisis: India braces for Rs 20,000 cr hole in budget as oil could rise to $120 per barrel From Firtsbiz.com India’s government sees oil prices going as high as $120 per barrel for three to four months because of fighting in Iraq, potentially driving a hole of at least Rs 20,000 crore ($3.4 billion)…