Fossil Fuels vs. The Public Interest

1 Sep, 2010 12:32 pm The fossil fuel industry often pretends to have the public's best interests in mind. The operative word is "pretends."

Australia Plans to be Carbon-Neutral by 2020.

25 Aug, 2010 10:48 pm By means of a huge new installation of concentrating solar thermal (CST) and wind-power and the electrification of its transportation infrastructure,...

Beyond Carbon Legislation: Energy Transition

2 Aug, 2010 09:08 am Never mind carbon emissions. That game cannot be won. What we can do is work towards replacing fossil fuels with renewables,...

Is Net Energy Peaking?

5 Jul, 2010 06:28 pm When most people think of fossil fuel supplies, they think in terms of barrels of oil, cubic feet of natural gas and tons of coal...

Sceptic Ian Plimer on global warming: "my theories are more evocative and sensual"

8 Dec, 2009 10:57 am Professor Ian Plimer is one of the most influential global warming sceptics. A university academic in Australia, his trenchant views on climate change...

Can Renewables Replace Fossil Fuels?

23 Nov, 2009 11:57 am With peak oil already upon us, sustaining oil supply is akin to running up a down escalator. Or, as Nate Hagens put it at the ASPO peak oil conference...

How much is it going to cost to decarbonise the economy?

12 May, 2009 11:28 am The government wants to emphasise the affordability of climate change mitigation. It produces low estimates of the cost of low-carbon technologies...

Geoengineering the Climate: Bad for You and Our Energy Future

3 May, 2009 06:29 pm Proposals to reduce global warming through giant engineering projects or so-called geoengineering abound. Almost all are in the idea stage...

Perfect Energy

16 Apr, 2009 08:17 am The recent start-up of the latest large-scale nuclear fusion experiment, the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,...

The (Not So) Invincible Society

3 Nov, 2008 03:11 pm Policymakers and the public think of modern industrial society as being resilient and durable. Are they right?

Building a Better Bacterium for Butanol

25 Jan, 2008 07:30 am A group of University of Alberta students have spent the summer working on building a new kind of bacteria: one that might hold some answers to the planet's...

Trading Pollution for Clean Development

28 Dec, 2007 02:12 pm This film, in 2 parts, gives an introduction to global warming and the Kyoto Protocol. It shows how one NGO in Karnataka is trading reduced carbon emissions...

Do the World?s Oceans Take Up Less Carbon Dioxide?

19 Nov, 2007 11:33 am The answer is: Yes, for the North Atlantic over the last decade.

High Oil Prices = High Biofuel Prices

6 Nov, 2007 11:47 am You know that forever I have beaten the drum that high fossil fuel prices would make biofuels more expensive due to their poor EROEI..

The Energy Diet

5 Sep, 2007 02:56 pm An article I read over the long weekend got me thinking about how we talk about energy supply and demand, particularly when we're looking at alternatives...

Climate Change's Winners and Losers

20 Apr, 2007 03:04 pm I've long maintained that one of the biggest mistakes that the environmental community -- and many of us -- made around climate change is relegating it...