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Posts in September 2006

• The Price of Fear in your Gas Tank

  Andy Rowell

  Sep19

  Ever wondered how much of the oil price is pure hype or fear? Well there is an interesting article in today’s New York Times, which quotes Michael Rose, the director of the energy trading desk at Angus Jackson in Fort Lauderdale, Florida who says that “Crude is coming down because it was way too high,”…
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• OPEC Worries Over Climate Change

  Andy Rowell

  Sep19

  As climate change moves up the political agenda, with even rumours that President Bush is going to make an a massive U-turn on the subject, another bastion of sceptics is starting to worry about the subject – OPEC.At a recent OPEC conference in Vienna, Claude Mandil, executive director of the International Energy Agency told OPEC…
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• Huge Potential in Renewables

  Andy Rowell

  Sep19

  Renewable energy provides just over 6 percent of total U.S. energy, but that figure could increase rapidly, according to a new report by the Worldwatch Institute and the Center for American Progress, “American Energy: The Renewable Path to Energy Security.”

• Bush in Climate Change U-Turn

  Andy Rowell

  Sep18

  Are we are about to witness one of the biggest political U-turns in recent years? Rumours are rife in Washington that Bush is about to undertake an astonishing U-turn on global warming. Apparently after years of trying to sabotage agreements to tackle climate change, the Toxic Texan is drawing up plans to control emissions of…
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• Lib Dems Launch Green Tax Offensive

  Andy Rowell

  Sep18

  The World Bank may be meeting in Singapore, but in the UK the political party season has begun. First up it’s the Liberal Democrats. The environment and climate change will feature heavily like never before with the Tories and Lib Dems both trying to attract the green vote.

• New Report Calls on World Bank to Stop Financing Big Oil

  Andy Rowell

  Sep17

  Oil Change International released a report today at the World Bank Annual Meetings in Singapore calling on the World Bank to stop using aid money to subsidize the expansion of the international oil industry – what we call “End Oil Aid”. Read the Reuters story here.

• Oil Change in Indonesia/Singapore as Controversy Surrounds World Bank Meetings

  Andy Rowell

  Sep16

  Hello from the International People’s Forum on the IMF and World Bank (IPF) on the island of Batam, Indonesia! Batam is a short ferry ride from Singapore, where the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are in the process of holding their Annual General Meeting. The IPF has brought together hundreds of social and…
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• Climate Change Educational Initiative Launched in the US

  Andy Rowell

  Sep15

  At last some good news: A major new educational initiative on climate change has been launched on the Net. Called “Focus the Nation” it will involve over 1000 universities, colleges and high schools in the US in a simultaneous one-day symposia that will explore the challenge of “Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century”. “Post…
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• Warning: 90% Carbon Cut Needed to Avoid Disaste

  Andy Rowell

  Sep15

  Hot of the heels of the two NASA reports is a further one from British scientists saying that drastic action is needed if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change. The government-funded Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the leading climate change research body, has revised upwards by a massive 50% the cuts in greenhouse…
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• Disappearing World

  Andy Rowell

  Sep15

  The Independent today reports on the story we blogged on yesterday about disappearing sea-ice reported by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. However it is even worse – another NASA study – this time by the Goddard Space Flight Centre, in Maryland, shows that the perennial ice melting rate, has also accelerated rapidly. As the…
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