Hansen Corrects BBC on “Climate Warming”
James Hansen clarifies misconceptions about the surface temperature record of the last 2 decades
Tar-Sands Oil Makes Climate Change Unsolvable
By Alex Morales / Bloomberg: Exploiting oil and gas trapped in tar sands and shale threatens to make climate change“unsolvable,” said James Hansen, the former NASA scientist who raised concerns about global warming in the 1980s. Conventional reserves of oil, gas and coal already have more carbon embedded in them than is safe to burn without causing “dangerous” levels of…
For Insurers, No Doubts on Climate Change
By EDUARDO PORTER / New York Times: If there were one American industry that would be particularly worried about climate change it would have to be insurance, right? From Hurricane Sandy’s devastating blow to the Northeast to the protracted drought that hit the Midwest Corn Belt, natural catastrophes across the United States pounded insurers last year, generating$35 billion in privately insured property…
It Doesn’t Matter If We Never Run Out of Oil: We Won’t Want to Burn It Anymore
By Amory B. Lovins / The Atlantic: Like whale oil in the 1860s, oil today has become uncompetitive — even at low prices — and that will only become truer with time. Charles C. Mann is a great storyteller, but “What If We Never Run Out of Oil?” tells the wrong story and is marred…
Exxon’s Disaster Relief
Exxon tries to put the Pegasus pipeline oil back underground where it came from and employs a time-honored cleanup technique pioneered by drunk guys. Watch the video here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colb…
Exxon – Energy Everywhere
America’s oil industry is terribly misunderstood. When a lot of people hear “364 pipeline spills in 2012” they think it’s a big mess, like a nearly realized advent calendar of crap. What they fail to see is a revolutionary energy distribution system about to achieve NATIONWIDE COVERAGE. And remember, that’s not just gas or oil…
A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash (2006)
An award-winning documentary film about peak oil. A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash explores key historical events, data and predictions regarding the global peak in petroleum production through interviews with petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, and political analysts. The film contains contemporary footage interspersed with news and commercial footage from the growth heyday of petroleum…
Crude – The Incredible Journey Of Oil (2007)
This excellent documentary, directed by Dr. Richard Smith, was first broadcast on 24 May 2007 by ABC TV (Australia) and wan the 2008 Walter Sullivan Award for excellence in science journalism. You can buy the DVD or watch it with extras on this, also excellent, web page: http://www.abc.net.au/science/crude/ The Irony of Oil (taken from the above…
Crude Impact (2006)
An examination of the interconnection of human domination of the planet and the use of petroleum, and offers solutions for how we can stop our progression down this destructive path. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0932519