Beyond Peak Oil
A Survey Based on Primary Statistics

 

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Global Climate Change and Peak Oil: The Sword of Damocles Has Two Edges (Part I) by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
- Like the withdrawal symptoms endured by an addict, the effects of the coming petroleum crisis will ravage the American body politic and work necessary but painful changes in the life of the entire human community. "Peak oil" is the crisis of getting off petroleum: "Climate change" is the almost irreversible legacy of two hundred years of fossil fuel pollution. At their center is an oil economy bound to militarism by the petrodollar money system. But wealth and weapons are not much use under seven meters of melted glacial seawater. The education of the public is the key to a safer world - so we're educating each other. In part one of this story, FTW energy editor Dale Allen Pfeiffer sets out a detailed picture of the climate change issue and its paramount importance.  More

Global Climate Change & Peak Oil, Part II by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
- In part 1 of this article, we looked at the abrupt climate change scenario leaked from the Pentagon. We noted the authors' recommendation that the President should elevate abrupt climate change to a national security issue. And we observed that the Pentagon's next move was an effort to back off from the report's conclusions and ultimately bury the report. The Bush Administration has ignored the report entirely, aided by a powerful global-warming-denial lobby which promotes junk science produced by industry. . .  More

Global Climate Change & Peak Oil (Part III) - by Dale Allen Pfeiffer
In parts one and two of this series on global climate change, Dale Allen Pfeiffer explained the evidence for serious ecological trouble in the coming decades, with prodigious weather events, rising sea levels, crop failures, and other wrenching consequences of a hotter biosphere. But in this installment, he pulls back the curtain on a more dire prospect: runaway global warming. The kind that once triggered the greatest mass extinction event in the history of the planet.  More

Double Whammy Peak Oil and Climate Change

While we still struggle to learn about and understand the magnitude of human tragedy inflicted on the Southern US by Hurricane Katrina, especially around New Orleans, it now becomes clear that the world is facing a double whammy: climate change and peak oil happening at the same time. More

Solving Peak Oil & Climate Change

So what is the link between the challenges of peak oil and climate change? The truth is that although they relate in a great many ways, the most important link is that they are both mitigated by the same solution - 'powerdown plus renewables'.

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