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- Why the U.S. is ignoring nuclear winter in nuclear policies & strategies
- Oil choke points vulnerable to war, chaos, terrorism, accidents, & piracy
- Nuclear weapons must be reduced or we risk nuclear winter
- Fusion is already running out of fuel
- Peak Oil is Officially Here! World oil production peaked November of 2018
- Wood, the fuel of preindustrial societies, is half of EU renewable energy
- Rare Earth updates: recent research on why complex & intelligent life are rare in the Universe
- Book review of “Chip War” and the Fragility of microchips
- The tremendous material and energy toll of the digital economy
- Nuclear attack on U.S. could kill 90% of Americans
- What percent of Americans are rational?
- Book review of Lights Out. A Cyberattack. A Nation Unprepared. Surviving the Aftermath
- Off-Road vehicles & equipment need diesel fuel
- Book review of “Prime Movers of Globalization: the History & Impact of Diesel Engines & Gas Turbines”
- Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse”
Monthly Archives: February 2014
PNAS: Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises
Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating Surprises. 2013. sponsored by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Intelligence community. This was the best summary of the 223 page National Academy of Sciences publication I could … Continue reading
Posted in CO2 and Methane
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Science Magazine: Peak Oil Production may have happened in 2005
[It’s widely known that peak conventional oil arrived in 2005. Yet it appears in EIA and IEA statistics that oil production has risen. This is because unconventional oil from natural gas liquids (mostly used to make plastic, not transportation fuel), … Continue reading
Posted in Flow Rate, How Much Left, Peak Oil
Tagged 2005, peak oil, peak oil 2005 science, science, science magazine
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Pity Brazil’s Military Police. FEB. 19, 2014. Vanessa Barbara. New York Times.
Pity Brazil’s Military Police. FEB. 19, 2014. Vanessa Barbara. New York Times. In 2012, 1,890 Brazilians were killed by the police. 351 occurred in São Paulo — 20% of all homicides. Organized crime retaliated by killing 11 police officers and … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Gangs, Corrupt police, Private security
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Gail Tverberg advice on what to do
Below are 2 columns of advice from Gail Tverberg. Feb 17, 2014. Reaching Limits to Growth: What Should our Response Be? Oil limits seem to be pushing us toward a permanent downturn, including a crash in credit availability, loss of … Continue reading
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Colombia’s Warning for Mexico
Preface. This is a pattern you see over and over again in civil wars and collapsing bits of nations no longer under government control Abadfeb’s editorial reminds me of feudalism. Until the rise of state-level armies in the 17th century, … Continue reading
Eduardo Porter : Next Crisis from Rising Interest Rates? (New York Times)
A World Unprepared, Again, for Rising Interest Rates. Feb 11, 2014. Eduardo Porter. New York Times. I was living in São Paulo in 1997 when, out of the blue, an investment banker I knew called to ask about Brazilian cocktails. … Continue reading
Posted in Crash Coming Soon, Interest Rates
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Banks get around Bonus Rules = less money to take back after risky bets go bad
February 13, 2014. Banks in London Devise Way Around Europe’s Bonus Rules. Jenny Anderson. New York Times. Since the 2008 crisis, regulators around the world have tried to rein in bonuses, worried that big payouts encourage excessive risk-taking by bankers … Continue reading
Posted in Crash Coming Soon, No Reforms
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Matt Taibbi : Commodity Scams on Wall Street Will Cause the Next Crash
The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks’ Most Devious Scam Yet Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever. Matt Taibbi. February 12, 2014. … Continue reading
Posted in Commodity Scams, Crash Coming Soon, No Reforms
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Set the planet on fire: Burn underground coal to gasify it. Worse than Fracking.
Fire in the hole: After fracking comes coal. 13 February 2014 by Fred Pearce. NewScientist. Setting fire to coal underground could answer our energy prayers, or start an environmental disaster on a bigger scale than ever before. Without a way to … Continue reading
Posted in Coal, Global Warming
Tagged 10 degrees, coal gas, coal to gas, underground coal gasification
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Kaplan on West Africa
Preface. This article interest me because I want to understand what collapse from energy decline will be like where I live. The same patterns appear over and over in this category of collapsed and collapsing nations. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com Author … Continue reading
Posted in Collapsed & collapsing nations, West Africa
Tagged Ghana, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, West Africa
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