Monthly Archives: March 2009

Dueling Price Predictions

By | Published: March 31, 2009
I have seen a flurry of recent predictions on oil and gas prices going forward, so I thought I would share some. Most of them support the thesis I recently put forward that we are setting the stage for another run on prices over the next 3-5 years. But with predictions all over the map, [...]
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Yamaha Halts Pending Sales of Rhino ATVs Pending Repairs

By | Published: March 31, 2009
Feds count 46 fatal accidents involving the Rhino Original post by miscellaneous
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Can ‘biochar’ save the planet?

By | Published: March 31, 2009
CNN: Over the railroad tracks, near Agriculture Drive on the University of Georgia campus, sits a unique machine that may hold one of the solutions to big environmental problems like energy, food production and even global climate change. Biochar’s high carbon content and porous nature can help soil retain water, nutrients, protect soil microbes. [...]
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United Kingdom: Thames Barrier to hold until 2070

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;BBC: The Thames Barrier will protect London from flooding until 2070, the Environment Agency has said. A new study into London’s flood defences found the barrier should work for 40 years longer than expected. The nine concrete barriers in Woolwich Reach, south-east London, will need upgrading by 2035. By 2075, [...]
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Landscape ‘to resemble Portugal’

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;BBC: Parts of Dorset will resemble Portugal by the 2080s with temperatures 4C (7F) higher in the month of July, a Natural England report has claimed. The study said without action to tackle climate change rainfall at Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase will fall by 12%. Beech trees numbers will [...]
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Canada: US climate change bill could side-swipe oilsands

By | Published: March 31, 2009
iCanwest News Service: Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday unveiled draft climate change legislation to slash America’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020, setting the stage for a protracted and intense political debate in Washington that has potentially major consequences for Canada’s energy industry. The 648-page draft bill [...]
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G20 protesters set up camp on City fringes

By | Published: March 31, 2009
Guardian: Demonstrators converging on the G20 summit this evening began taking over squats on the border of London’s Square Mile to use as bases from which to launch a series of co-ordinated "direct action" protests. The occupation of four buildings prompted the first confrontations with police, and marked the start of two days in [...]
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Greenpeace fears climate failure from G20

By | Published: March 31, 2009
iGreenpeace: G20 leaders are poised to waste a unique opportunity to tackle the economic and climate crises simultaneously through greening their economies. Wealthy G20 nations need to commit at least 1% of their GDP to green measures, and the rest should do all they can to leapfrog dirty carbon-based development and shift to a [...]
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United Kingdom: Building industry outlines vision for green roofs and “living walls”

By | Published: March 31, 2009
Business Green: London’s giant Westfield shopping centre will be praised today for utilising an emerging green building trend designed to improve biodiversity in our towns and cities. The centre, in the west of the capital, boasts a 170m long "living wall" covered with ferns and flowers and which separates the pedestrian approach from surrounding [...]
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Amazonian region likely to become savannah due to burning, deforestation

By | Published: March 31, 2009
Mongabay: A new analysis shows that the heavily-deforested Amazonian region of Mato Grosso is particularly susceptible to ’savannization’ due to repeated burning that has likely depleted the region’s soils of precious nutrients. According to the study, published in the Journal of Geophyscial Research, savannization, or the process of tropical ecosystems shifting to savannah, is likely [...]
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Airlines to fly less, and pollute less, in downturn

By | Published: March 31, 2009
Reuters: Airlines will reduce their carbon emissions by nearly 8 percent this year as they slash the number of flights they operate in line with a drop in both cargo and passenger demand, executives said on Tuesday. The airline sector was once seen as a driving force behind global warming, which is linked to [...]
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Australia: ‘Extinct’ possum back from the dead

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window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;New Scientist: Last December, the Australian lemuroid ringtail possum was widely reported as the first possible extinction casualty of climate change. But last week it rose from the dead with ecologists reporting the discovery of three of the creatures and declaring that the species was never feared extinct. But its future [...]
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Hopes of G20 green deal on the wane

By | Published: March 31, 2009
Business Green: Fears are mounting that environmental issues could be almost entirely sidelined at tomorrow’s G20 summit in London as leaders of the world’s largest economies resist calls to make clear green commitments as part of the meeting’s closing communiqué. According to Guardian reports, UK officials are leading a last-ditch effort to have clear [...]
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United Kingdom: Mandelson puts nuclear business up for sale

By | Published: March 31, 2009
Business Green: The government yesterday announced it is to put the decommissioning and consultancy arm of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) up for sale in a move business secretary Peter Mandelson said would help improve the efficiency of the planned rollout of a new fleet of reactors. The government said it would consider [...]
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Climate change plan needed to save economy

By | Published: March 31, 2009
New Scientist: All eyes are on London this week for the G20 summit. Will it come up with a plan to save the world economy? It won’t, say UN climate negotiators in Germany – where this week’s real business is happening – unless there is a plan in place to save the planet first. [...]
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