Monthly Archives: January 2012

Republicans ramp up the climate change denial

Posted on January 30, 2012 by macca

You can tell the US mid-term elections are coming. The Mad Hatter’s Climate Change Denial Party is out in force, playing whack-a-mole with the facts in Rupert’s Wall Street Journal. They reckon we don’t have to worry, even though it’s … Continue reading →

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Alan Jones forgets peak oil, goes back to spruiking ethanol

Posted on January 30, 2012 by macca

If you needed proof that the oil debate in Australia is over petrol prices, and little else, it has been confirmed again. Manildra, a private company which has a monopoly over ethanol production in NSW, has been in full support … Continue reading →

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Sir David King hints at peak oil in Nature

Posted on January 29, 2012 by macca

Matt Peacock at the ABC’s PM progam talks to Professor James Murray, co-publisher of a paper in Nature with Sir David King that claims that “oil’s tipping point has passed” and that oil production can no longer respond to rising … Continue reading →

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Gunter Pauli: The Blue Economy

Posted on January 28, 2012 by macca

Gunter Pauli has a dream. The Belgian economist and entrepreneur has a plan to develop 100 manufacturing innovations with viable business models that could generate 100 million jobs in 10 years. All with zero emissions and no waste. He calls … Continue reading →

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A slick logo and website for Triscope Films

Posted on January 28, 2012 by macca

I recently finished a website, logotype and promotional campaign for client Triscope Films. These guys are really good at what they do, so it was a pleasure to work on the project. The website is designed to suit desktop computers … Continue reading →

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BITRE 117: adding fuel to the bitter partisan divide

Posted on January 26, 2012 by macca

Alan Jones discussed the “missing” BITRE 117 report (Transport Energy Futures: Long-term oil supply trends and projections) on Wednesday, using the document to spruik ethanol and coal liquefaction, bag the oil companies, the Greens and the Gillard government, and wage … Continue reading →

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NASA finds 2011 9th warmest year on record

Posted on January 22, 2012 by macca

The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists. Nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. More from NASA…

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Empire: The decline of the American empire

Posted on January 22, 2012 by macca

The last decade has been problematic for the world’s only superpower. America’s post-Cold War optimism has given way to pessimism, forecasting a declining power and the end of “the American era”. The rise of new global powers, coupled with Washington’s … Continue reading →

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Climate Change: Going beyond the dangerous

Posted on January 22, 2012 by macca

Kevin Anderson, former Director of the Tyndall Centre (the UK’s top academic institute researching climate change) is a depressing guy. Here, in his lecture “Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission scenarios for a new world”, he lays out the grim reality … Continue reading →

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For some conservatives, CO2′s the answer to all our woes…

Posted on January 21, 2012 by macca

If we needed further evidence that neither the left nor the right of politics can sanely address two of the most pressing issues of our time – peak oil and climate change – it was Piers Akerman’s article in yesterday’s … Continue reading →

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Peak Oil: Ex-Shell CEO Hofmeister debates ASPO-USA’s Patzek

Posted on January 19, 2012 by macca

The University of Wisconsin recently hosted a debate between Dr. Tad Patzek, incoming president of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (USA), and former CEO of Shell Oil Company and domestic drilling proponent John Hofmeister. These … Continue reading →

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Australia’s Global CCS Institute fails to fire up energy industry

Posted on January 15, 2012 by macca

What a woeful scheme. Did Kevin Rudd imagine that coal fired energy producers would get involved in the cost of carbon capture and storage without either (a) sufficient industry incentives or (b) a high enough price on CO2 emissions? Nobody … Continue reading →

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