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Category Archives: Books
Hirsch predicts Oil Shocks by 2017, panic, and stock market crash
I believe oil shocks could lead to a FAST CRASH Robert L. Hirsch was the author of the first US government report on peak oil in 2005, which recommended taking action to mitigate Peak Oil at least 20 years before … Continue reading
Posted in By People, Energy Books, Oil Shocks, Peak Resources, Robert Hirsch
Tagged hirsch, liquid fuel crisis, transportation
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Energy Security experts count how many angels can dance on the head of a pin
Sovacool, Benjamin (editor). 2011. The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security. Routledge. I’m feeling very insecure if the discussions and conclusions in this book at all represent the latest thinking of scholars on energy security. They remind me of the recent … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Energy Books
Tagged energy security
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How and Why Corporate Interests Attack Science. A Detailed Account of the Attack on the Hockey Stick graph
A Book review of: Bradley, Raymond. S. 2011. Global Warming and Political Intimidation. How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated up. University of Massachusetts Press. I would read Oreskes’ “Merchants of Doubt. How a Handful of Scientists … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Extinction Books
Tagged attack on science, climate change, extinction, global warming, global warming and political intimidation, hocky stick, raymond bradley, uninhabitable
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When Life Nearly Died. The greatest mass extinction of all time
[ Benton shows why it was probably lava flows, not impact from meteors that caused the Permian extinction. I don’t know why everyone isn’t reading whatever they can find on the greatest mass murder of all time — the Permian … Continue reading
Posted in But not from climate change: Peak Fossil Fuels, Extinction Books
Tagged extinction, gas hydrate, methane hydrate, peak coal, peak natural gas, peak oil, permian
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