Don’t you just love it? As some 45,000 people – from governments, to business to NGOs talk about climate change and how to tackle it, the oil boys just get on with business, regardless of any outcome. Exxon has just...
The Oil Drum is one of those great blogs that discusses energy and peak oil. It has consistently and coherently been ahead of the curve, shall we say, when it comes to exploring the issue of peak oil and what...
It’s that time of year again. It’s January, snow is on the ground (and no that doesn’t mean that climate change is not happening), it’s freezing outside and ... Russia is having an energy dispute with its neighbours. Somethings never...
As promised from yesterday, here are the top dozen Climate Killers from Rolling Stones list. According to the magazine, “the polluters and deniers are aiding Big Oil and Big Coal's campaign to block progress on global warming”. I am sure...
For those of you who have not seen the film the Age of Stupid, Pete Postlethwaite, puts in a great performance as a despairing archivist wondering how we allowed the world to be ravaged by climate change. You could imagine...
Predicting political speeches is always fraught with difficulty, but there have been enough leaks to suggest that Barack Obama’s State of Union address will scale back his ambitious plans on both health-care as well as climate change. Instead the President...
Timing, they say, is everything. Click on a copy of Canada’s National Post and one of the banner adverts today is from Shell talking about the “New Energy Future”. Part of Shell’s “new Energy Future” is the Canadian tar sands,...
Various blogs on the site over the last few months have warned about what peaking global demand will do for the oil industry. Last August in the blog “What About the Demand-Side Warning?” we quoted Lorne Stockman, the author of...
Timed with perfection to undermine the meeting between Canada’s Premier Stephen Harper and Barack Obama, Greenpeace has issued a new report labelling Canada as a “climate change bully” that is doing everything in its power to undermine a new agreement...
I don’t know how many G20 leaders will have time to read the FT website today, but they should. The paper’s editorial is nothing short of staggering. It starts by stating “As addictions go, the world’s addiction to fossil fuels...
