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Category Archives: Natural Resources
World climate is changing
Earth’s climate has been changing for many decades. Now, the world is threatened by three effects of the change. By the time today’s children have become the adults in authority, they will face a world unbelievably different from ours, today. … Continue reading
If I explain, they will accept. Uh, umm
Today’s SkepticalScience.com has a link to one of Katharine Hayhoe’s latest videos. Facts don’t convince. This video (Fig 1) is a very solid description on why you cannot come up to someone, just explain the technical facts about something, then … Continue reading
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Tagged Skeptical Science, Katharine Hayhoe, Global Weirding, global warming
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Climate shift denialists 2 – Religious
Trump and his religious followers deny climate change. Why? On June 1 (2017), Pres. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the international Paris Agreement On Climate Change. This is a major action that will haunt our grandchildren’s grandchildren. It also … Continue reading
Climate shift denialists 1 – Business and politics
Trump and other denialists reject climate change. Why? On June 1, Pres. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the international Paris Agreement On Climate Change and pushed climate change into one of the major stories of the year. This has … Continue reading
Obama Decides On Keystone XL
Obama announced at 11:00 Nov 6 in 2015 that the contentious Keystone XL program has been rejected. This is written minutes after President Obama publicly announced his administration’s rejection of the Keystone upgrade project. LastTechAge has been following this since … Continue reading
KXL threatens US environment -Not energy -Not climate
Keystone XL is is a threat to US environmental integrity. Its Senate vote is near. The bill forcing development of the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline build is about to be set before the president. The proponents say it is about … Continue reading
Should oil trains get limited liability?
Exploding oil cars do not deserve a waiver from the costs they generate. Warren Buffett has requested that oil train companies get a liability limitation – just like nuclear power plants, so reports Heather Smith in her 2014 Aug 6 … Continue reading
World Oil Production – Our Finite World
Just a note on a blog we’ve discussed before. A perceptive analysis of our civilization’s current status in tapping its finite oil reservoir has been posted on Our Finite World. It is called World Oil Production at 3/31/2014–Where Are We … Continue reading
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Tagged Gail Tverberg, Oil resources, Our Finite World, World Oil Production
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Is Copper entering crisis mode?
Under current exponential exploitation, copper supplies will peak by mid 21st century. A recent study indicates that we may run out of economical copper by mid century. This detailed analysis, using a painstakingly gathered database, has been discussed in the … Continue reading
Do you follow Our Finite World?
Our Finite World is an outstanding blog that studies issues related to resource depletion from a financial actuary’ view. Gail Tverberg writes Our Finite World. It is a blog strongly engaged in the problems we are and will be facing … Continue reading
People are changing the world climate
Could write ten thousand words supporting the stand for anthropologically caused climate change. (LastTechAge is something of a science blog.) But that’s been done. Here is a good recent one: Why Reddit Banned Climate Denialist Comments, by Nathan Allen, editor … Continue reading
Water, Groundwater and XL
Water reserves in the Midwest are an endangered resource. XL performance will disrupt both our national food supply and the water for many cities. High Plains Aquifer is dangerously depleted in large regions. This was the message by Michael Wines … Continue reading
Reject Keystone XL. It is about US ecology, not global climate
The US State Department released its Keystone XL pipeline report. Guess what? It concluded that accepting or rejecting XL would have little affect on world climate. XL – pretty small stuff. The State Department report is right as far as … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, James Hansen, Joe Nocera, Keystone upgrade, Keystone XL, Obama, oil sands, pipeline safety, shale oil, tar sands
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Keystone XL is not about climate change, Joe Nocera
The argument against the XL pipeline is based on US interests, should not be about climate change. Joe Nocera published a column in the Feb 19 (2013) print edition of the New York Times. He explains why we must support the XL … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Koch, David Koch, dilbit, Enbridge 6B, energy security, James E Hansen, job generation, Joe Nocera, Keystone XL, Obama, pipeline safety
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Hands Off The Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Report today suggests we may be close to another attack on our Strategic Petroleum Reserve Calls for releasing petroleum from the US reserve are being raised across the globe. US oil not specified of course, but who else will open … Continue reading
Petroleum exports skyrocket while oil prices rise
On 2012 Mar 07, The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a report on the history of U.S. liquid petroleum products (crude oil, gasoline, kerosene, …) highlighting the positive fact that exports are leading imports for the first time in 6 … Continue reading
US Petroleum Exports are Huge
On March 7, last week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a short report that showed that in 2011, U.S. petroleum exports exceeded imports for the first time since 1949. That was their headline. The data in this report … Continue reading
Keystone XL Is About Exports
Is the Keystone XL push to the Texas coast for American energy or for export? The U.S. EIA released a new graph that is an attention-getter. In 2011, petroleum exports exceeded imports. This was the first time for this in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cusing Oklahoma, Keystone XL, oil export, petroleum, tar sands, TransCanada, WTI
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Footprints in the sand2 – US Oil
By the late 1930s, U.S. oil industry knew continued expansion was not possible, but lived in a state of denial. Records of petroleum production are like signposts on the roadway, pointers for future directions for life quality – indicators of … Continue reading
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