Articles
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Is the recently increased oil price good news for the environment?
21 Mar 2008
‘The international community has been laboring for 10 years under the Kyoto Protocol negotiations to agree on a global reduction of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emis
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Energy supply : From Expansion to Contraction
06 Aug 2007
Energy supply : From Expansion to Contraction By C.J.Campbell (Chairman, Association for the Study of Peak Oil) Many people ask: Are we running out of oil? The simple answer
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Peak Oil - A Turning Point For Mankind
13 Jul 2007
The World is not about to run out of oil, but what it does face is the end of the First Half of the Age of Oil. That opened 150 years ago when wells were drilled for oil on the sho
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Limits to Growth updated
09 Jul 2007
« Public writer Laura Jones made a cautionary argument for reason in a 1997 essay: In 1798, Thomas Malthus predicted in An Essay on Population that the world would run out o
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The Energy Return on Time
08 Jun 2007
While writing the recent piece on home heating, I was surprised to calculate many different numbers for the energy return on firewood. Though the outputs were only slightly differe
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Climate Change, Sabre Tooth Tigers and Devaluing the Future
23 Feb 2007
The debate on the realities of both climate change and Peak Oil has moved from 'are they real?' to questions concerning timing, magnitude and impact. At the same time, expanding re
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A voyage to peak oil enlightenment
22 Dec 2006
Chris Skrebowski responds to CERA reportdebunking Peak Oil 'Theory' On November 10th 2006 Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) p