The end of peak oil?
•Peak oil’s death has been greatly exaggerated •A place where the peak oil crowd gathered is no more •Bible holds lessons for future of energy
Media & Communications
“Apocalyptic Journalism” and Why We Need Reporters to Face the Reality of Our Crumbling Society
We have no choice but to deal with the collapse of journalism, but we also should recognize the need for a journalism of collapse.
5 Reasons Why Oil Companies Get Away With Overblown Field Estimates
We’ve all seen the big headlines over the few past few years proclaiming various new oil fields. These stories often go on to claim how the Age of Oilquarius is now upon us and we will swim and bath in seas of energy until the sun explodes and the universe ends.
Can we trust the reporting of environmental issues by the mainstream media?
Among the various lessons we learned in 2012 there is also whether or not the so-called “mainstream media” really can be trusted to tell the truth about environmental issues. Or can it be trusted to do just the opposite, and in various diverse and difficult to detect ways?
Climate – Dec 19
•Leaked IPCC Draft Report: Recent Warming Is Manmade, Cloud Feedback Is Positive, Inaction Is Suicidal •What leaked IPCC report really says on climate change •Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air •States Threaten EPA Over Petroleum Industry Methane Emissions •Ask Bill McKibben Anything
Fossil fuels & fracking lies: spread the word
Check out this campaign by Loudsauce.com. They’ve selected PCI’s latest video as a candidate for broad media exposure.
Climate – Nov 21
•New Report Examines Risks of 4 Degree Hotter World by End of Century [World Bank] •Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies in September 2012 [US]
Crippling Intellects
People can be individually smart and collectively dumb. Or some may argue that people can be individually dumb yet collectively smart. When it comes to plotting a future path, I think we often get the worst of both worlds. In this post, I’ll look at the role that mental horsepower plays in our societal narratives, for better or for worse. We’ll explore two aspects to the problem: people who are so smart that they have dumb ideas; and smart people who are held captive by the manufactured “dumb” of society.
ODAC Newsletter Nov 9
The end of the US election season and a return of the incumbent Barack Obama saw oil markets turn their attention back to the economy. Despite much talk of upside the picture remains bleak with the US showing a huge deficit, and the EU still unresolved on how to deal with its highly indebted members. Oil prices showed their steepest decline of the year on Wednesday before recovering slightly to around $107/barrel for Brent.
Oil – Nov 8
•Meet the man the oil industry goes to for a voice of gravitas in the US election •Iran MPs draft law to cut oil exports by a third •Balance of power shifts in changing world of oil •Federal scientists muzzled on oilsands •Oil lobby and Koch-backed groups spent $270m on anti-Obama ads
Defeat Romney, without illusions about Obama
The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose values are generally in line with mine — progressives, especially activists — to make this goal one of your priorities during this period.
When science is a conveyor of bad news
Science is a phenomenal institution. Sometimes I can’t believe we created this construct that works so incredibly well…Yet science seeks truth, and sometimes the truth is not what we want to hear.