New research undertaken in the UK has found that few people are making significant changes to their lifestyle to counter climate change despite a widespread acceptance of its dangers. The survey found that while 80 per cent of the public believed climate change was affecting Britain, almost half were doing nothing to halt its impact.
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Oil Price Rises on Back of Nigerian Hostage Taking
If the oil price was not jittery enough over the Iranian seizure of 15 British sailors and marines, the news from Nigeria over the last few days has not helped stabilise the increasingly volatile oil price. Early on Saturday morning militant youths seized the Scottish off-shore installation manager for the Bulford Dolphin rig that is … Read More
What else has the government not told us about climate change?
A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science. According to GAP, political policies and practices “have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information emerging from publicly-funded climate change research. This has negatively affected the media’s ability to report … Read More
GAO: The US Needs a Peak Oil Strategy
Ok so there is a raging peak oil debate out there. The Peak oil pundits say we are in real trouble, the oil industry say that there is enough oil for the meantime not to worry. But now the US Government Accountability Office has waded into the controversy. It has undertaken a Peak Oil study … Read More
US Maintains Iraq not “Occupied”
The stand-off between Britain and Iran is not the only tension building in the Gulf this week. Tensions are also building between the US and Saudi Arabia, reflecting growing differences between the two long-time allies as the Saudis take a greater leadership role in the region.
Oil Reaches Six-Month High Over Gulf Standoff
The increasingly tense standoff between Iran and the UK over the fate of 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran has helped drive crude oil prices to a six-month high. Traders sent the price of crude oil up by 3 percent, to $66.03 a barrel in New York yesterday, after Iran put off a … Read More
Iraqi Oil Unions – Key Opposition
A pair of recent articles from UPI correspondent Ben Lando, here and here, flesh out the details as to the importance of Iraq’s oil unions and their long and storied past. The unions, which have been cut out of the process of drafting the oil law (while the US and British governments, the International Monetary … Read More
Retreating Himalayan Glaciers Spell Disaster for Bangladesh
Bangladesh is often seen as being in the fragile front line of climate change, being especially susceptible to sea-level rise. But now climate scientists are worrying about another equally dramatic effect – the retreat of the Himalayan glaciers that feed the great rivers on which the country depends.
China Finds an “Elephant”
After a decade-long search for oil from central Asian deserts to the floors of the Pacific, PetroChina has found an offshore field in Bohai Bay that could become China’s biggest new domestic petroleum source for years, with reserves of 2.2 billion barrels. The scale of the find, if confirmed, would be welcome news to the … Read More
Shell Looks for New CEO
Oil giant Shell may break with a century-old tradition and recruit a new chief executive from outside either the Netherlands or Britain. The prediction came yesterday after the company announced it was looking a replacement for Jeroen van der Veer, the chief executive, who retires in 2009. Already Shell has persuaded der Veer to sign … Read More