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Who benefits from a continuation of the oil age? Who is willing to risk our children’s and grandchildren’s future for short-term profit? Who opposes a rapid transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy? Is anthropogenic global warming and war in the Middle East parts of the same problem? Who profits from an escalation of war  and terror in the Middle East, high oil prices and a warmer climate? Who has the power to force their desires on the world community?

The Stone Age did not end because of lack of stones, but because better alternatives were found. The fossil fuel era will end when better alternatives are available. It’s happening now.

Fossil fuels are probably no longer profitable when  the real and hidden costs are included.

According to the IMF, fossil fuels are subsidised by USD 2 trillion per year. This global regime of perverse subsidies to  multibillionaires should come to an end. Fossil fuel companies should pay for their negative externalities like others have to. When that happens, the cost of producing fossil fuels will increase, while profits drop. Renewable energy sources can now compete in price with fossil fuels. Effective. large-scale storage of energy from renewables is a matter of foreseeable time. Fossil fuel exporters, especially in the Middle East, now produce at top capacity to sell their oil before it becomes a stranded asset.
IMF Experts and Others Envision a World without Energy Subsidies. ||  It’s time to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry  || Oil, coal and gas disasters that are costing us all (February 2014)   || Tutu, D. (2014)  We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet  ||   Dietz, S. & Stern, M. (2014) Endogenous growth, convexity of damages and climate risk (Grantham work paper) || The Climate for 2015: Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart ||  World Bank 2015  | |  Make fossil fuel industry pay for the real costs  ||  Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF   |  ||  IMF chief calls for end to fossil fuel subsidies  (March 2016)|| Renewable energy   ||   Insurers worth $1.2tn tell G20 to stop funding fossil fuels by 2020 (Aug 2016)  ||

Climate research and international efforts to mitigate climate change systematically attacked by the fossil fuel interests

Serious climate research is aggressively, dishonestly and manipulatively attacked by Arabic American coal and oil billionaires. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to produce propaganda and to harass climate scientists. Most people realize, however, that it is not possible to burn over 90 million barrels of oil every day, and an equivalent amount of coal and gas without ecological consequences. Tomorrow’s weather forecast is long droughts punctuated by heavy rains and floodings. Increasingly erratic weather may not necessarily mean more, but stronger storms, more precipitation and heat waves. Shorter but icier winters with periods of very heavy snowfall. Extreme weather is becoming the normal. This is the climate legacy we give our children.

In the United States there is a whole industry of “think tanks” and PR firms spreading disinformation to the public, schools and media. Manipulative, trivializing and confusing climate propaganda takes attention away from the reality and the brutal power game that is now taking place in the global network of the oil giants. “Internet trolls” and “skeptics” and other errand boys for the fossil fuel profiteers are organised to attack and confuse any serious  discussion..

Oil-and coal-billionaires, Putin and his regime in Russia, Middle East petrotyrants and extreme Islamists such as Isil live high on fossil energy. These men are willing to do anything; start wars, wage terror , produce millions of refugees and risking the future of their own grandchildren, in order to postpone the transition from the carbon society to the renewable community.

Wars in the Middle East 

Many countries in the Middle East are now at war. The main conflict is between two blocks; one led by the Shiite ayatollah regime in Iran, the other by extreme Islamists in Saudi Arabia, mainly wahabbi-Sunnis. Iran receives some political support from Asia and Russia. Saudi Arabia controls Aramco, the world’s richest oil company, and thus has the support of partners in the American big oil industry. The war is increasingly portrayed as a religious war between Sunnis and Shia. Powerful interests want to stoke up the religious aspect, and their most ardent followers often resort to various forms of terrorism. The underlying cause of the conflict, however, is the battle over who will control the oil and with it the hegemonic power and money in the area. In addition, the battle for water. The war in Syria began in conflict over water access. The entire Middle East is characterized by increasing water scarcity. The worst drought in several hundred years still continues in Syria and other areas in the vicinity. The most populous country in the Arab world; Egypt, is in a state of water crisis. Oil revenues enable direct and indirect water imports. The struggle for water and oil resources is such an explosive mixture that armed conflicts can quickly escalate. In the event of a military confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran, oil transport in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea might stop. More than a quarter of the world’s daily oil passes those waters.

Fertile grounds for jihadi recruitment

Egypt’s ability to produce its own oil approaches its end, with severely shrinking oil and gas resources. Much of the country’s infrastructure is based on cheap, subsidized oil. Egypt is also the world’s largest importer of wheat. Millions of Egyptians rely on subsidized wheat to survive. With an ever-hotter and drier climate and possible declining water levels in the Nile, Egypt’s economy is in jeopardy. With rising sea levels, parts of the fertile Nile delta will be inundated, enhancing the problems. Extremist groups may have good recruitment opportunities in the region’s most populous country. Other countries in similar crises are Libya, Algeria, Sudan, Pakistan, Bangladesh  and Yemen just to mention a few. Saudi Arabia is all too happy to send their young and angry men brainwashed with wahhabist propaganda out of their country and equip them with petro-dollars and weapons. According to the US minister of foreign affairs, Saudi Arabia is the biggest funder of terrorists in the world. There is little doubt Al Qaeda as well as ISIL have received massive financial support from Saudi sources. NATO countries should be aware that if they want to fight ISIL, they inevitably strengthen the Iran position while weakening the Saudi Arabia position and vice versa. However, if they want to go to the root causes, they need to stop pouring petro dollars into the Middle East. The current international fossil fuel network guarantees financing of terrorism and war.

Doubling oil prices after a temporary low?

Oil speculators rejoice in the possibilities of future higher oil prices. With temporary low prices, stock prices fall for the time being while oil stocks build up.  The price per barrel will probably remain below USD 60 per barrel for a longer period – or even  below USD 40 per barrel – since OPEC as well as the USA are reluctant to reduce production. When that happens, marginal oil production like shale, tar sand and deep sea drilling will no longer be profitable and close down. The big oil stocks ensure low prices for a long period. The fracking adventure in the USA therefore just might be short-lived. These kinds of activities can be terminated quickly, but will need long time to start up again. However,  wars in the Middle East might escalate dramatically in the coming months or years, and prevent oil extraction and transport in many parts of the region. With a possible slight economic recovery (??) in the United States, the demand for oil might rise while supply decreases. Some hope for a quick doubling of oil prices. Another possible scenario is that the irresponsible production-maximizing strategy big oil came up with a decade ago, has destroyed the market, and the oil prices will remain low.

Unlike speculators, big oil companies plan for a decade or more into the future. They know that rapidly increasing oil prices entail a corresponding reduction in the production of petrol engines, eventually bringing the oil age to an end in a few years’ time. Oil companies want stable prices. This wish might not survive against the speculators ‘ wishes and the dramatic and blood-dripping realities getting out of hand in the Middle East. In addition, renewable energy starts to make an indentation on the global energy market, and more banks seem to prefer placing their investments in ever-cheaper renewable energy rather than in the increasingly more expensive and insecure fossil energy.

The petrodollar

An additional problem is the “petrodollar”. Since the 1970s, oil is traded all over the world in US dollars. The dollar is the international currency. Most countries, and especially China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and some other countries have huge reserves in USD. This has so far been an advantage to the USA. The Americans could print extra dollars and avoid inflation since the international community would take care of the surplus. According to some politicians and economists,  the USA has tended to exploit the system by working up debts and deficits to a larger extent than would otherwise deemed wise for other economies. The question is what happens if world trade in oil goes substantially down or no longer is paid in petrodollars. What happens in a situation of conflict and confrontation between Russia and China on one side, the USA on the other? If Saudi Arabia in such a situation should find that their interests are no longer served by their ties to the USA, could that have any impact on world economy? A possible scenario could be that Russia, China and Saudi Arabia decide to sell off their stacks of dollars, and declare that from now on, they want payment for their goods in other currencies than dollars. The petrodollar system has been working fine for the USA for four decades. But will this continue? With the wars going on in the Middle East and the Russia / Ukraine conflict as a background, Western countries should maybe consider reducing their financial vulnerability to economic warfare against the petrodollar.

In reality there is only one way to save our world’s climate, make our eco-systems and economies more robust, reduce the level of conflict in the Middle East and win the war on terror:  we need to get out of our dependency on oil as soon as possible.

Speculating in the possible doubling of oil prices can certainly be tempting for the oil saved. Solar energy, however,  is already competitive in price. Renewable energy is growing rapidly in efficiency and decreasing in price

Transition is cheap – for now

Maybe you should rather invest your money in the future forms of energy instead of the increasingly blood-dripping oil sector? The oil age is ending. Petro-tyrants and oil speculators are fighting desperately for hegemony a few decades more. This struggle renewables must and will win.

We have the means, the technology and know what to do

The technology is here, and fast developing. According to the UN, it is surprisingly cheap to transition to renewable energy and phase out the fossil fuel society. Renewable energy is still only marginal. We now must prepare for a rapid, exponential growth. Renewables should at least take 50% of the global energy mix by 2030. If we fail, we are heading for irreversible impacts.

Source: California energy supply

The climate swerve (NYT, Aug 2014)  ||

Tipping points ahead

There are good reasons for optimism. But there are also signs that we are in a hurry. We risk passing one or more tipping points and getting a runaway climate change: Giant Holes in Siberia Are Evidence of Runaway Climate Change, Scientists Say. | |  The Really Scary Thing About Those Jaw-Dropping Siberian Craters || Study of huge Siberian craters shows Giant Pool of Methane below them (Nov 2015)  ||  SWERUS-C3: First observations of methane release from Arctic Ocean hydrates  ||  Horrific Methane Eruptions in East Siberian Sea || Scientists Demand Investigation After More Mysterious Holes Appear In Siberia  || Record decline of ice sheets: For the first time scientists map elevation changes of Greenlandic and Antarctic glaciers (Aug 2014)  ||  Has the puzzle of rapid climate change in the last ice age been solved? New report published in Nature shows that small variations in the climate system can result in dramatic temperature changes (Aug 2014)  ||  Greenland Ice Sheet more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought (Sept 2014) || Changing Antarctic waters could trigger steep rise in sea levels, conditions 14,000 years ago suggest (Oct 2014) || Earth’s Oceans Heating Up Much Faster Than Scientists Expected (Oct 2014) || They Took A Camera To A Remote Area In Greenland, And What They Recorded Is Simply Terrifying  || Amazon rainforest losing ability to regulate climate, scientist warns (Guardian Oct 2014)  || Global Warming Is Slowing Ocean Currents Causing Dire Consequences, Warns Climate Expert Michael Mann  || Dahr Jamail – The Methane Monster Roars  ||  Climate apocalypse is here now: science fiction has become our new reality  (Oct 2015) ||  Buckle Up: Scientists Warn of Dozens of Global Warming Tipping Points That Could Trigger Natural Disasters (Oct 2015)  || Failing phytoplankton, failing oxygen: Global warming disaster could suffocate life on planet Earth (Science Daily, Dec 2015)  ||  New Theory Behind Dozens of Craters Found in Siberia ||

The Fossil-profiteers and their global networks

President Putin

The Russian President Putin was a former colonel in the KGB and a director of the FSB. He says that the worst disaster the last hundred years was the fall of the Soviet Union He now wants compensation by building a new Russian empire. With a slightly warmer planet, Russia will be able to double its agricultural land to the north, as the permafrost melts. Putin has nothing against a little global warming. Russia is the world’s largest exporter of fossil fuels. Giant companies Rosneft and Gazprom are both controlled by Putin. Every day Russia earns over a billion petrodollars. Remove the revenues from fossil fuels, and Putin’s empire ambitions will most probably fall.
Trump, Putin, and ExxonMobil team up to destroy the planet (Dec 2016)

The Ibn Saud family

The world’s richest family owns the “Arab-American Oil Company” (ARAMCO), the world’s richest company. Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil exporter. The Ibn Saud family is the spiritual head of the extreme-Islamist branch called  wahabbi, with the ambition of religious hegemony, or caliphate, based on fundamental Sharia laws. Extreme Islamist terrorist groups worldwide are funded from Saudi Arabia. The terror group Isil or IS declare themselves wahabbists.

The Ibn Saud family owns Ghawar, the world’s largest oil fields. Unlike new oil fields in the North Sea and the tar sands in Canada, the extraction of oil in the desert states is cheap, less than ten dollars per barrel. The retail price of a barrel of oil is around $50-  130. Saudi Arabia sells approximately ten million barrels of oil every day. Daily revenue from crude oil is over a billion dollars. In addition,  the Saudis receive financial income from investments in the United States. Saudi Arabia would be a poor desert country without oil revenues. The Saudi royal family will do anything to keep the fossil society running for a few more years. In addition, they have a secret hope that some more global warming will increase precipitation over the Arab states, as happened during the Holocene optimum for 5000-10000 years ago.

Other extreme Islamist regimes (Petro tyrants)

Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq all sell oil and gas to survive. Along with Saudi Arabia, extreme Islamist regimes and Russia sell over half of the world’s conventional oil sources, and daily make over 5 billion dollars just on crude oil. As long as petro-money flows in, democracy is of little relevance. (See Thomas Friedman’s «first law of petropolitics and The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations)

“We can choose to not reform capitalism, leave human beings to die from deprivation – where we are now – and understand that that puts people in self-defense mode. When in self-defense mode, kill or be killed, there is no civilization at all. It is the law of the jungle, where we started eons ago. In that context, ‘terrorism’ will likely flourish because it is ‘terrorism’ only for the haves, not for the have-nots. The have-nots already live in terror, as their existence is threatened by deprivation, and they have the right to fight back any way they can”   Capitalism vs Climate: This Changes Everything  (Aug 2014)
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The Communist Party of China

PetroChina is owned by the Communist Party and is China’s largest oil company with more than one trillion U.S. dollars in capitalisation. CNOOC, PetroChina and Sinopec are also controlled by the Communist Party of China and are among the largest companies in the world. Investments and vested interests in these huge companies slow down the transition to sustainable energy sources, desperately needed in polluted China.

The Seven Sisters (Big Oil)

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP and about a hundred other oil companies have their vested interests in fossil fuels to protect. According to the Aramco’s website, many of the largest Western oil companies are Aramco partners. Aramco and its partners are probably the largest economic entity in the world.

The Koch brothers

Charles and David Koch are American multi-billionaires, heavily involved in fossil fuels. They finance “think tanks” like Heartland  and Cato Institutes, in reality propaganda companies for unethical, big corporations. The Koch brothers have their roots in the extreme organization of John Birch Society. The Koch-wealth is largely based on questionable business ethics and cooperation with the old Soviet Union’s Stalin. The Koch brothers are investing heavily in disinformation and pay “scientists” to produce confusing research results. They are deeply involved in shady transactions in the Middle East. The Koch bros are doing their best to fight renewable technologies. Clean, cheap and decentralised technologies threaten their profits. The Koch bros systematically work to destroy democracy and install a ruthless corpocracy, with themselves running the USA as a corporation. America has a Koch problem.

Rupert Murdoch

Media mogul and multi-billionaire. He controls much of the world’s mass media. He is closely associated with the Saudi royal family and the fossil fuel industry.

The fossil fuel era can be dismantled within less than two decades. Four easy measures:

1. All subsidies and special tax deals for the fossil fuel industry are removed globally.  The International Monetary Fund(IMF) should get full support on this point. The IMF envisions substantial economic and environmental advantages .
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2. Put a 10% carbon fee on fossil fuels. 100% revenue distribution of the money to the public in equal shares as direct payments. The fee would start at $10/ton of CO2 and increase $10/ton each year; 100% of the revenue is returned to households, equal amounts to all legal residents. This approach spurs the economy, increasing the number of jobs by 2.1 million in 10 years. Emissions decrease 33% in 10 years, 52% in 20 years.  Hansen, J. (2014) Too little, too late? Oops? Carbon tax!
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3. The current fossil fuel industry subsidies transferred to renewables to speed up the ongoing process.
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4. Divest! Invest your savings in the sunrise industry of renewable energy. Remove your money from the sunset fossil fuels industry.  All responsible governments must ensure that the current fossil fuel industry subsidies are transferred to renewables to speed up the ongoing process.  |  Go fossil fuel free. Divest! |  Stanford professors urge withdrawal from fossil fuel investments Jan 2015 | The Social Cost of Carbon  | 2015 – the fossil fuel endgame begins |  The Great Deflation – the carbon bubble slowly popping (Jan 2015) |  Global divestment day  | IEA 2015: Global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide stalled in 2014 |  The Big Reason Why America Is Turning to Renewable Energy  | Bill McKibben: The Turning Point Towards a Low-Carbon Future (Aug 2015)   |  Leonardo DiCaprio Joins $2.6 Trillion Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement | Don’t Let Wall Street Leave You Behind: It’s Time to Divest From Fossil Fuels  (Oct 2015)   |  Renewables to lead world power market growth to 2020 (IEA Nov 2015) |  Leonardo DiCaprio: ‘Do Not Wait Another Day’ to Move to 100% Renewable Energy – “Climate change is the most fundamental and existential threat to our species.”  (Dec 2015) |

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Renewable energy

• The future of energy is 100% renewable
• 100% Clean Energy is 100% Possible
• The future of energy according to Elon Musk and Akon – distributed renewable power “leapfrog” 20th century brown energy grids in developing countries (May 2016)
• The biggest climate march ever (September 2014)
• How Renewables In Developing Countries Are Leapfrogging Traditional Power
• Germany’s Grid: Renewables-Rich and Rock-Solid (Sept 2014)
• Will the Carbon-Free Power Plant of the Future Look Like a Giant Sponge? 
• Google: $1 billion Investment In Alternative Energy
• The sustainable society of 2040
•  Green economy
• U.N. Climate Panel Highlights Lack Of Action On Rising Temperatures
• 100% sun, wind, and water can power each U.S. state and the world –Stanford stud
• Bill Gates (2014) on climate change and energy
•  The U.S. Navy Just Announced The End Of Big Oil And No One Noticed (April 2014)
• Worldwide Renewable Energy Jobs Hit Almost 6.5 Million In 2013 
• Barclays downgrades entire US electric utility sector (May 2014)
•  Investing in renewable energy
• A climate rescue plan
• Report: A Carbon Tax That Would Create Jobs, Cut Emissions and Put Money in Your Pocket
• Climate action could spur $2 trillion in economic growth in 2030 alone
•  Hans Rosling – 200 years of global change (2013)
• La demanda de energía eléctrica desciende un 0,2% en el 2014
• Dismantle the oil age
• The great green technology transformation (UN) 2011
• The next Tesla
• New Tesla Another Milestone for Visionary Elon Musk
• UBS Urges Investors to Join Renewables Revolution
• Expert Says We Can Reduce Fossil Fuel Use 80% With Existing Technology
• Pathways to deep decarbonisation (SDSN & IDDRI, 2014)
• UK Scientist Unveils Plan to Make Renewables Cheaper Than Coal Within 10 Years
• Airbus and the National Aerospace Center of South Africa are funding research into fuel cells
• Nicolas Meilhan – énergie du future-Université d’été 2014
• The language of sustainability (The Guardian)
• How California Could Power Itself Using Nothing but Renewables
• Baseload power is a myth: even intermittent renewables will work
• New Study: EV More Polluting than Petrol??! Not So Fast…
• A New World With The Greenpeace GREEN ENERGY REVOLUTION PROJECT #Infographic
• Hyundai Fuel Cell Hydrogen-Powered Electric Engine Named To Ward’s 10 Best Engines List
• 5 New Realities That Will Determine the Future of Energy
• Richard Branson and Amory Lovins Join Forces to Accelerate Clean Energy Revolution
• Everyday Technologies That Help You Go Green
• 5 Top Clean Energy Stories of 2014
• The Cost of going GREEN GLOBALLY #Infographic
• Can We End Our Fossil Fuel Addiction by 2050? #infographic
• Sustainable Energy Revolution Grows, Says Bloomberg Report (Feb 2015)
• India’s Huge Commitment to Renewable Energy Provides ‘Gift to the World’
• Scheduled 2015 capacity additions mostly wind and natural gas; retirements mostly coal
• EcoloBlue/Qatarat Al-Nada 400,000 Liter/Day Atmospheric Water Generator Station
• Lester Brown: The Great Energy Transition to Solar and Wind Is Underway
• Renewables Beat Fossil Fuels Second Year in a Row
• A Clean Energy Future: Why It Pays to Get There First (July 2015)
• Carbon Emissions Falling Fast as Wind and Solar Replace Fossil Fuels (Aug 2015)
• Electric cars produce lower global warming emissions than the average compact gasoline-powered vehicle (UCS, 2014)
• Energy game changers look to the future. Researchers now know how to keep the whole of the US powered by wind, water and sunlight without ever needing to fall back on emergency fossil fuel generators (Dec 2015)

Solar

• Solar Is the Fastest-Growing Source of Renewable Energy in America (May 2015)
• The truth about the price of solar energy
• New Record Set for World’s Cheapest Solar (May 2016)
• Report: Solar Will Dominate World Energy Supply in Just 15 Years (March 2015)
• Why Tesla’s battery for your home should terrify utilities (Feb 2015)
• Rooftop solar is now cheaper than the grid in 42 American cities (Jan 2015)
• Solar Power is at a Tipping Point (The Upshot is Massive Profits) Money morning, Jan 2015
• Are You Ready to Power Your Car With the Sun? (Feb 2016)
• Solar cells get growth boost (March 2015)
• The Solar Industry Has Been Waiting 60 Years For This To Happen — And It Finally Just Did  (April 2014)
• Stacked solar cells could make solar power cheaper than natural gas
• Solar Power for the Global Masses: The Next Revolution (May 2014)
• Why Investing in Solar Energy Is Attracting the Big Boys (Aug 2014)
• Solar Energy Profits Start to Attract the Big Boys
• Major milestone for solar farm Australia (March 2015 video)
• Look Out Utility Companies: Tesla is Disrupting More Than Just the Auto Industry (March 2015)
• Stanford University Study Finds Utility-Scale Solar Development Enough to Power Communities (March 2015)
• Solar Energy Could Power the World
• 75,000 New Jobs to Enter Solar Workforce, Including Military Veterans (April 2015)
•  Solar wins

•  Moors, K. (2014) Has Solar Power Finally Arrived?
• New Discovery Promises a Future of Cheap, Ubiquitous Solar Power 
• The future is a desert, but we can make it bloom 
• UK and Germany break solar power records(June 2014)
• Why Investing in Solar Energy Is Attracting the Big Boys (Aug 2014)
• Solar Roadways: Turning Pavement into Power
• Good News About Solar Energy From Disparate Parts of the World
• What if Solar Panel Where on Every Family Roof ? #Infographic
• 3 Charts Prove the Solar Revolution Is Here to Stay (Jan 2015)
• Solar Is Creating Jobs Nearly 20 Times Faster Than Overall U.S. Economy (Jan 2015)
• Africa’s new breed of solar energy entrepreneurs (BBC Jan 2015)
• Tim Cook: New Solar Farm Will Be Apple’s ‘Biggest, Boldest and Most Ambitious Project Ever’ (Feb 2015)
• Tesla and Toyota Driving Innovation Far Beyond Electric Cars (Feb 2015)
• Look Out Utility Companies: Tesla is Disrupting More Than Just the Auto Industry (Feb 2015)
• Tesla Roadster Road Trip Update: San Jose to Los Angeles on a Single Charge (Feb 2015)
• Solar industry prepares for battle against Koch brothers front groups
• Is utility-scale solar finally about to take off in Australia? (Feb 2015)
• A Forest of Power: Solar Energy-Harvesting Trees (Feb 2015)
• Solar lights a healthy – and empowering – path in disasters. (Feb 2015)
• Solar Energy Around the World (2015)
• Japan has just opened one of the world’s largest floating solar power plants (April 2015)

• International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
• Tesla Model S P85D – We couldn’t believe our eyes – Can the new Tesla really outrace a snowmobile? (April 2015)
• Global investment in renewable energy hit US$270B in 2014, says UN report
• Energy Storage Would Play Major Role in a Green Future

Wave

• A Pollution-Free Plan to Power 100 Million American Homes (wave power)
• Free-Energy Ocean Turbines: The Death Of Fossil Fuels!
• Tidal Power Facts: Understanding How Tidal Energy Works
• Who Will Win the Tidal Wave Energy Race?
• Is Tidal Energy the World’s Next Renewable Powerhouse?
• Ocean Tides to Power More Than 150,000 Homes
• Wave and Tidal Energy Market to Reach US$10.1 bn by 2020 – Solar Thermal Magazine (Nov 2015)

Geothermal

•  Phillips (2014) The Red Hot Renewable That Could Incite A Green Power Revolution – geothermal energy  
• Harnessing The Power Of Geothermal Energy #Infographic

Nuclear

•  Focus fusion to empower the world

Hydrates

•  Methanehydrates (clathrates )

Wind

• Top wind energy myths (Feb 2016)
• New Silent Wind Tree Turbines Make Energy Production Beautiful
• How Vortex Wind Generators Work
• The Enessere Hercules Wind Turbine Generates Wind Energy in Fine Style‘
• Wind Power in U.S. Hits New Milestone: Enough Energy to Power 19 Million Homes (Dec 2015)
• City Windmills Enable Clean Energy and Unique Advertising Opportunites
• New Bird-Safe Turbine Can Generate Clean, Quiet, Affordable Wind Power in Cities
• UK Wind Power Smashes Records As Scotland Eyes Fossil-Free Future (Jan 2015)
• Wind Was Largest Source of New Electricity in 2014 (USA EV March 2015)

Hydrogen

• This “Hydrogen Battery” Might Overcome Energy’s Biggest Roadblock
• The Present And Future Of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles

    Energy storage

• Harvard Researchers Hail Cost-Effective Battery That Could Store Surplus Wind and Solar Power
  
• Elon Musk: Tesla Battery Will ‘Fundamentally Change the Way the World Uses Energy’(May 2015)
• Energy Storage Would Play Major Role in a Green Future
• Elon Musk’s Tesla Battery So Popular It Sold Out Through 2016
• Top 5 green energy breakthroughs
• The Future of the Battery Powered Homes
• How Better Battery Storage Will Expedite Renewable Energy
• Elon Musk Debuts the Tesla Powerwall
• Tesla Powerwall Explained! – A Battery Powered Home.
• Ocean Tides to Power More Than 150,000 Homes

President Putin

•  Vladimir Putin Is The New Global Shah Of Oil (Forbes , April 2014)
• Will the curse of oil drag down Vladimir Putin? Russia’s dependence on the energy sector is detrimental to its long-term political and economic stability
• Putin’s plan to reclaim the old Russian empire (NYPost, May 2014)
• President Putin – the world’s biggest oil exporter – and dependent on oil
• Fleischer, M. (2014) How curbing climate change can prevent Russia from becoming a superpower, LA Times 
• Why Is Vladimir Putin Acting So Crazy?
• Global Monitor: Russia Puts the Global Warming Treaty in the Deep Freeze

Saudi Arabia Royal family

•  The world’s biggest companies (Forbes 2012)
• The ten biggest companies
• Meet The Saudi Prince Who Finances the Murderous Egyptian Military, and Crushes Democracy in the Middle East
• ISIS Wins, as Trump Sucks Up to the Saudis, and Launches Destructive Fight with Qatar. It seems clear that Trump does not know what he is doing, and the the Saudis played him like a fiddle (June 2017)
• Saudi Crown Prince’s Mass Purge Upends a Longstanding System (NYT, Nov 2017)
• The Prince: Meet the Man Who Co-Opted Democracy in the Middle East
• Saudi Arabia’s Brilliant Recipe for Dominating the Middle East
• Aramco
• Energy is opportunity – Saudi Aramco
• King AbdulAziz Ibn Saud
• Saudis expand regional power (NYT Jan 2015)
• Moussaoui Calls Saudi Princes Patrons of Al Qaeda (NYT Feb 2015)
• Claims Against Saudis Cast New Light on Secret Pages of 9/11 Report (NYT Feb 2015)
• Why the U.S. and Saudi Arabia Are Suddenly Involved in a Tense Geopolitical Drama (April 2016)
• The U.S. Continues Unquestioned Support of Saudi Arabia Despite Mounting War Crimes (July 2016)
• As the Saudi Aramco IPO Date Nears, 3 Big Obstacles Remain (Jan 2017)
• Satire is dead when France honors the theocratic Saudi monarchy for “countering extremism and fighting terrorism” E.U. and U.S. quietly admit Saudi Arabia is largest supporter of Islamic extremism, yet publicly pretend otherwise (2016)

Wars in the Middle East, East Africa and Asia

• Drought in Syria Likely the Worst in 900 Years (March 2016)
• One More Reason to Re-Evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance (Jan 2016)
• Saudi Arabia a Force for Stability? Dream On! (Jan 2016)
• Why Saudi extremism is an argument for electric cars, wind and solar energy (June 2017)
• After Years of Proxy War, Saudi Arabia and Iran Are Finally Squaring Up in the Open (Jan 2016)
• The rise of ISIL (NYT Nov 2015)
• Why ISIS Wants the Paris Climate Talks to Fail (Nov 2015)
• Moroccan Man Apologizes to Paris Victims in Viral Video: ‘These So-Called Jihadists Only Represent Themselves’ (Nov 2015)
• Bernie Sanders: ‘Climate Change Is Directly Related to the Growth of Terrorism’
• Obama Says Strategy to Fight ISIS Will Succeed (NYT Nov 2015)
• The Pentagon Is a Massive, Unacknowledged Threat to the Global Climate (Dec 2015)
• Defense Department to Congress: Global warming is a ‘present security threat’ (July 2015)
• NATO: Climate Change Is Significant Security Threat and ‘Its Bite Is Already Being Felt’ (Oct 2015)
•  TEDxPentagon – Rear Admiral David Titley, USN – Climate Change 
•  “Climate Change War” Is Not a Metaphor 
• Pentagon Says Global Warming Poses an Immediate Risk to National Security. Climate change a threat multiplier
• Pentagon: Global Warming Poses ‘Immediate Risk’ To National Security
• Immigration and Terrorism Will Increase With Climate Change, Says Military Leader
• Rancor Between Saudi Arabia and Iran Threatens Talks on Syria (Oct 2015)
• A G7 Report Says Climate Change Can Fuel Political Upheaval Like Civil Wars (June 2015)
• Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip
• Climate Change Is Likely a Cause of the Civil War in Syria, Researchers Say (March 2015
• Human-Caused Warming Helped Trigger Current Syrian Conflict And Rise Of ISIS  (March 2015)
• Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought (PNAS 2014)
• Prince Charles: Climate Change Root Cause of Syrian War (Nov 2015)
• Defense Department to Congress: Global warming is a ‘present security threat’ (July 2015)
• NATO: Climate Change Is Significant Security Threat and ‘Its Bite Is Already Being Felt’ (Oct 2015)
• Tony Benn talking in Parliament about supplying the middle east with weapons
• The Next Genocide (NYT Sept 2015)
• Global warming could lead to worldwide wars (Sept 2015)
• Sale of US arms fuels the wars of Arab states (NYT April 2015)
• The Growing China-Russia-Iran Strategic Alliance Has Got the Pentagon Trembling
• Islamic State Sprouting Limbs Beyond Its Base (NYT Feb 2015)
• Climate change deemed growing security threat by military researchers (NYT Sept 2014)
• How We Built the Infrastructure for Disastrous, Permanent War in the Middle East
• Drought Helped Spark Syria’s Civil War — Is it One of Many Climate Wars to Come?
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
• Global crisis update (Oil and energy: why Irak is the centre of an escalating war and how you can profit)
• Gleick (2014) Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria
• ISIS consolidates
• Why the war in Iraq was fought for Big Oil
• ‘Is ISIL really ‘Sunni’? Not at all’
• ISIS: The Birth of a Terrifying New State 
• Take slavery in Iraq to the international criminal court
• The Big Contradiction: American Bombs Dropping On Extremist Group Funded By U.S. Allies
• Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern. Massacres of civilians are being exploited for narrow geopolitical competition to control Mideast oil, gas pipelines
• Why We Need to Understand the Apocalyptic Worldview of a Small Group of Radical Muslims
• Michael T. Klare (2006) Taking Oil Out Of The Equation
• Saudi Arabia is ‘biggest funder of terrorists’ (Independent)
• WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists (Guardian)
• Islamic Radicalism: Its Wahhabi Roots and Current Representation
• Egyptian ISIL Jihadist: All Non-Wahhabis in Egypt Must Be Killed Before Jersualem’s Liberation
• ISIL and the Confused Energy Picture (Our world) |  (Resilience)
• Libyan militias seize control over capital (NYT, Sept 2014)
• Qatar’s Support of Extremists Alienates Allies Near and Far
• Extreme Middle East jihad conflicts may spread to nuclear conflict between Pakistan and India: The Zero line (Be critical: May be speculative worst case scenario presentation)
• The Kashmir conflict over the river Indus (National geographic)
• The diversity of islam (NYT Oct 2014)
• President Obama’s 2014 UN General Assembly Speech
• The Deployment of Climate Change and Control over Natural Resources in Current Radical Islamic Theory and Practice – Dr. Moshe Terdiman
• Water supply key to outcome of conflicts in Iraq and Syria, experts warn (Guardian July 2014)
• Water wars: a new reality for business and governments (Guardian, Oct 2014)
• Pentagon Says Global Warming Poses an Immediate Risk to National Security (Oct 2014)
• Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Arab Countries (Ecomena, Nov 2014)
• 5 Things Powerful People in Washington Believe That Have No Basis in Reality (Nov 2014)
•  Climate change a “threat multiplier” for farming-dependent states-analysis
• Pentagon: Global Warming Poses ‘Immediate Risk’ To National Security
• Immigration and Terrorism Will Increase With Climate Change, Says Military Leader
• Did Drought and Climate Change Cause Middle Eastern States to Collapse in 2014?
• $14 Million an Hour: The War on ‘Terror’ Has Cost $1.6 Trillion
• Understanding Qatar’s Ecological Footprint
• Shabab Militants Learning to Kill on a Shoestring (NYT April 2015)
• 6 Incredibly Important Things Everyone Should Know About ISIS (June 2015)
• Worried about refugees? Just wait until we dust-bowlify Mexico and Central America (Sep 2015)
• Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought (PNAS 2014)
• Nuclear Winter on a Planetary Scale: The Biggest Threat to Mankind Virtually No One Is Talking About – A war between India and Pakistan could produce human suffering the likes of which the world has never seen before (April 2016)
• Conflict on the Nile
•  Leif Wenar: Oil: Power, Conflict and Trade in a Natural Resource
• At Least Four Kinds of Terrorism Are Targeting Our Grandchildren—None of Them What Donald Trump Would Have You Think  (Dec 2016)

• The world’s biggest oil producers
  
• The world’s biggest oil exporters
• The World’s Largest Oil And Gas Companies 2017: Exxon Reigns Supreme, While Chevron Slips (Forbes, 2017)
• Crude Oil Exports by Country (2017)
• Most of the world’s countries could run on 100% renewable energy by 2050, says study  (WEF, 2017)

The Bush – islamist connection

• The 22-Year Bush War of Aggression on Iraq
• Fighting for Oil? The Kuwait connection
• Persian gulf war
• Inbred Oil Kings & Bush League Criminals
• The Bush Saudi connection
• Looking behind the Bushes
• Put the Evil Bastards on Trial: The Case for Trying Bush, Cheney and More for War Crimes
• George W Bush Elected President in 2000 ‘Floating on Oil Money’
• Jeb Bush’s Misleading ISIS Statements
• Sperry, P  (2003) Crude Politics: How Bush’s Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism,
• Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
• How on Earth Are We Allowing George W. Bush’s Reputation to Be Rehabilitated?
  The enemy of our enemy is still a war criminal.

 Big oil and King coal

• Exxon Ordered to Fork Over 40 Years of Climate Research (Jan 2017)
• Big oil, big politics: Rex Tillerson is just the latest example of oil industry’s grasp on U.S. (Jan 2017)
• Exxon is Flooding the World with Fossil Fuels that Could Destroy Life As We Know It (Feb 2016)
• Rex Tillerson’s Record on Climate Change: Rhetoric vs. Reality (Dec 2016)
• Big Coal’s big scam: scar the land for proft, then let others pay to clean up
• ExxonMobil And Russia Began Drilling For Oil In The Arctic On Saturday
• America could have dropped big oil decades ago. What happened? (Alternet June 2012)
• Exxon’s climate lie: ‘No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad’ (Guardian, Oct 2015)
• Climate denial is corruption and the GOP is captured by it  (Sept 2015)
• Big Oil, Not Big Tobacco, Wrote the Public Skepticism Playbook
• The End of the Conflict-Creating Oil Age Is Coming Into View — Here’s What the Future Looks Like
• Oil reserves
• Seven sisters – oil companies
• Big oil
• How the Fossil Fuel Industry is Subverting Democracy and Undermining Sustainable Development in America
•  Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air  How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics
  to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science- (UCS 2007) ||
•  The Climate Deception Dossiers (Union of concerned scientists July 2015) ||
• Ahmed, N. (2014) UN – climate ‘perfect storm’ is already here. Time to slay Zombie Big Oil,
• Guardian (2013) Dollars for Deniers: Big Oil Funds Climate Science Denialism
• Crude oil production – country comparison (CIA factbook)
• Why OPEC Has Declared an Oil War on Russia (Oct 2014)
• Energy groups face ‘existential’ climate threat, says ex-BP chief (Financial Times Nov. 2014)
• Bush’s Former Oil Company Linked To bin Laden Family
• John Kerry: Ignoring Climate Would Be ‘Massive Moral Failure of Historic Consequence’  (Dec 2014)
• American Petroleum Institute (API)
• Coal – an outlaw enterprise (NYT, Dec 2014)
• The Real Story Behind the Oil Price Collapse (March 2015)
•  IEA -Key World Energy Statistics 2015
• IEA world energy outlook 2015
• Research Confirms ExxonMobil, Koch-funded Climate Denial Echo Chamber Polluted Mainstream Media (Nov 2015)
• Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax  Modern anti-science was created by the tobacco industry in the 1950s and then used against climate science, often by the same well-experienced think tanks and individuals.  Tobacco anti-science is strangely entangled with climate anti-science, as the attached report shows in detail involving Fred Singer’s SEPP, Joseph Bast’s Heartland, and more. (Fakery 2  10/25/12 updates this post with more data.)

Air pollution

• Air pollution links library

Fracking

• 8 Dangerous Side Effects of Fracking That the Industry Doesn’t Want You to Hear About
• It’s Official: Oklahoma Experiences More Earthquakes Than Anywhere Else in the World (Nov 2015)
• Staggering Rise in Fracking Earthquakes Triggers Kansas to Take Action (April 2015)
• 11 Earthquakes Rock Texas Fracking Heartland in 24 Hours (Jan 2015)
• California Aquifers Poisoned by Fracking While State’s Water Shortage Becomes Grim (Oct 2014)
• Confirmed: Oklahoma Earthquakes Caused By Fracking (April 2015)
• Is Fracking Really Dying? Are falling prices killing shale oil and gas, or will the environmental horror return? (Jan 2015)
• Experts: Fracking Industry Likely to Crash Due to OPEC Decision to Keep Oil Production High (Nov 2014)

Tar sand

• The tar sand sell-out (Guardian, May 2015)

The Koch bros

• Sensing Gains Ahead Under Trump, the Kochs Court Minorities (NYT, Jan 2017)
• The Kochs and the Nazis: Book Reveals Billionaires’ Father Connection to the Third Reich (Jan 2016)
• Koch Brothers Plotting Multimillion Dollar War on Electric Vehicles (March 2016)
• Koch Brothers Continue War on Solar in Sunshine State (Oct 2015)
• New Study Exposes True Extent, Influence Of Climate Denial Echo Chamber For First Time (Dec 2015)
• Koch Brothers’ Budget of $889 Million for 2016 Is on Par With Both Parties’ Spending (NYT Jan 2015)
• 11 Things The Koch Brothers Don’t Want You To Know, From Robert Greenwald’s Newly Updated Documentary
• Koch Bros exposed 2014 
• David Suzuki: Koch Brothers Continue to Oil the Machine of Climate Change Denial (April 2015)
• Welcome to the Wholly Owned Koch Subsidiary Formerly Known as Wisconsin (Oct 2015)
• The Kochs & the Nazis: Book Reveals Billionaires’ Father Built Key Oil Refinery for the Third Reich
• Charles Koch’s decades-long plot to overthrow the government

• Now That Solar Capacity Is Soaring—Koch Brothers Demand Tax on the Sun 
• RTCC (2014) Carter slams Koch brothers for funding climate denial
• Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales (Bloomberg)
•  Mont Pelerin Society A Window Into Ideological Heart Of Kochtopus Climate Denial
• New study looks at how the Agenda 21 conspiracy is poisoning public discussion about sustainability
• NRDC: Agenda 21 conspiracy theorists threaten cities’ sustainability effort 
• How politics hijacked the fight against global warming
• Five shots against global warming denialism
•  America’s most dangerous enemy
•  Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers
• How the Koch brothers screwed over the climate even more than you know
• Secret funding helped build vast network of climate denial thinktanks (Guardian, Feb 2013)
•  The ATM for climate deniers
• 10 worst billionaires on the Forbes list
• Desmogblog
• Mashey Report Confirms Heartland’s Manipulation; Exposes Singer’s Deception
• Heartland Republicans: Investigate Heartland (Huffington Post February 2012)
•  Merchants of doubt
•  Koch Brothers Political Empire Holds Action on Climate Change Hostage
•  Chevron donates to republican party
• Koch bros vs Growthbusters
•  Quick and dirty primer on the Koch bros 
• Koch Brothers Political Empire Holds Action on Climate Change Hostage
• Kochs Form New Dark Money Group To Hide Political Activities From Public
• Map of climate change deniers in US Congress
• Charles and David Koch
•  The Heartland “experts”  
• Desmogblog
• Charles Koch Personally Founded Group Protecting Oil Industry Hand-Outs, Documents Reveal
• How Billionaires Like the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson and Sam Walton Are Destroying America
• Hard-Nosed Advice From Veteran Lobbyist: ‘Win Ugly or Lose Pretty’
  Richard Berman Energy Industry Talk Secretly Taped (NYT Nov 2014)
• Climate Denier-in-Chief Inhofe to Head Senate Environment Committee
• Blundell: The Missing Link Between Oil Baron Charles Koch and British Climate Denial
• Climate skeptic group works to reverse renewable energy mandates
• Climate change denial – heads in the sand
• Energy firms in secretive alliance with attorney generals (NYT Dec 2014)
• How the Koch Network Funnels Anonymous Millions to Fight Women’s Rights
• A Koch Hack Tells the Pope to ‘Back Off’ on Climate Change
• Now They’re Saying It in Public: Professor At Koch-Funded University Department Calls For ‘Less Democracy’
• “Merchants of Doubt”: Meet the sleazy spin doctors who will stop at nothing to obscure the truth (March 2015)
• Koch Brothers EXPOSED: 2014 • FULL DOCUMENTARY • BRAVE NEW FILMS
• Will Chevron and Exxon Ever Be Held Responsible for Decades of Contamination?
• Here We Go Again: Koch Cronies ‘Cook the Books’

 The unstable and vulnerable economy of the fossil fuel age

• The desperate plight of petrostates (May 2016)
• It’s Time to Break Saudi’s Oil Monopoly and Embrace Clean Transportation (May 2016)
• Oil majors told to adapt or die (May 2016)
• Saudi Arabia’s Oversupply of Oil Has Little to Do With Economics and Everything to Do With Politics (March 2016)
• Saudi Arabia Just Delivered Another Strike in the “Oil War” (April 2015)
• US coal crash ‘serves as a warning’ to fossil fuel investors  (March 2015)
• Slump in oil prices bring pressure and investment opportunities (NYT Feb 2015)
• What the U.S. Should Learn from Russia’s Collapse (Dec 2014)
• Big investors to act on carbon footprint of assets in bid to tackle climate change (Guardian Sept 2014)
• Climate change more catastrophic for the global economy than we thought  (Oct 2015)
• Future Investments in Fossil Fuels Look Dim
• IPCC Scientists Emphasize Immorality Of Inaction By Focusing On ‘Irreversible Impacts’
• Making money on energy crises
• Australian health fund follows international organisations moving to divest in coal (Oct 2014)
• Lord Stern Report: Transform Global Economy to Fight Climate Change
• The 25 year depression  (maybe a bit speculative?)
• It’s time to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry 
• Who Is Afraid Of Fossil Fuel Divestments? Apparently The Fossil Fuel Lobby
• Oil, coal and gas disasters that are costing us all (February 2014)
• Dietz, S. & Stern, M. (2014) Endogenous growth, convexity of damages and climate risk (Grantham work paper)
•  Coal Industry Report On Social Cost Of Carbon Relies On Climate Science Denial 
•  There Are No Human Rights on a Dead Planet
•  The Grantham institute on the climate and the environment (LSE)
•  Climate Change Is ‘Perhaps The World’s Most Fearsome Weapon Of Mass Destruction’
•  Oil economy bubbles?
• Why the Oil Industry is Running Into Major Trouble
• The shale bubble – shale gas as saviour is just wishful thinking
• New Energy Report from I.E.A. Forecasts Decline in North American Oil Supply
•  The limits to existence – aligning economics and thermodynamics 
•  Climate Panel Stunner: Avoiding Climate Catastrophe Is Super Cheap — But Only If We Act Now
•  Nasa-funded Study: Industrial Civilization Headed for ‘Irreversible Collapse’ Due to Inequality, Exploitation
• Are Oil Companies 21st Century Slaveowners? 
•  9 Out Of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing Fact 
• Coal to rival oil as dominant energy source by 2017: IEA
• Bank of England investigating risk of ‘carbon bubble’ (Guardian Dec 2014)
• Bank of England prods insurers about climate plans  (FT Dec 2014)
• Disclose climate risk in fossil fuel investments, says UK minister
• The Role of the 2015 Agreement in Mobilising Climate Finance
• Five Reasons Climate Deniers Are Dead Wrong
• 10 Things You Need to Know About Oil Prices
• Why Fossil Fuels Are Dirty Politics as Well as Dirty Energy
• Public Utilities Should Embrace Renewable Energy Revolution, Not Get Run Over By It
• Top 10 Carbon Market Predictions for 2015 (March 2015)
• 8 States Dealing With Huge Increases in Fracking Earthquakes (April 2015)

• The Economic Fallacy of Lower Oil Prices Will Hit Consumers Right Here… (Money morning)
• Global divestment for fossil free future
• OPEC’s Impact on Oil Prices: An Exclusive from the “Inside” (Money morning Dec 2014)
• OPEC is Playing a Losing Hand (Get Ready to Win Some Heavy Money (Money morning Dec 2014)
• Fossil fuel investing a risk to pension funds, says Ed Davey
• Essay 1: Why Global Warming Can’t Be Solved
• Essay 2: The Problem with Money
•   Climate Justice and Equity  
• Lower Demand Behind Latest Drop in Oil Prices
• How the carbon bubble will pop (WP)
• The Climate for 2015: Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart
• 3 Natural Gas Myths Debunked. The “Shale Revolution” is overblown, two new reports suggest.
• Leave Fossil Fuels Untapped to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change, Study Urges (Jan 2015)
• Caribbean Island Says Goodbye Fossil Fuels, Hello 100% Renewable Electricity (Jan 2015)
• The Great Deflation – the carbon bubble slowly popping (Jan 2015)
• Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels Is a Bridge to Nowhere (Feb 2015)

Fossil fuel subsidies

• Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m a minute, says IMF
• 20 Richest Countries Subsidize Oil & Gas Exploration as much as Whole World Subsidizes Green Energy
• IMF Experts and Others Envision a World without Energy Subsidies. 
•   It’s time to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry 
•  Oil, coal and gas disasters that are costing us all (February 2014)  
•  Dietz, S. & Stern, M. (2014) Endogenous growth, convexity of damages and climate risk (Grantham work paper) 

Action

• Global Leaders on Pace to Rescue the Climate (Jan 2016)
• Assuring Real Progess on Climate (James Hansen, 2014)
• Our children’s trust
• Better governance is the only sustainable solution
•  Climate action could spur $2 trillion in economic growth in 2030 alone
• Stop talking about conservation. We need restoration and rehabilitation.
• Hansen, J. (2014) Speaking Truth to Power – and to Friends
• Tutu, D. (2014)  We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet 
• Pentagon unveils plan for military’s response to climate change (LA Times Oct 2014)
• Naomi Klein: People’s Climate March Is a “Glimpse of the Movement We Need”
• Hansen, J. (2014) Rain-Making and Benefunder 
• How To Engage And Win The Conversation About Climate And Energy
•  Tutu, D. (2014)  We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet
• UN Climate Summit catalyzing action

Climate change

• National Geographic’s Stunning Portraits Bare the Stark Reality of Climate Change (Nov 2015)
• List of Worldwide Scientific Organizations That Hold the Position That Climate Change Has Been Caused by Human Action
• Rate Of Climate Change To Soar By 2020s, With Arctic Warming 1°F Per Decade (March 2015)
• Buckle Up: Scientists Warn of Dozens of Global Warming Tipping Points That Could Trigger Natural Disasters (Oct 2015)
• Hansen et al (2015) Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that◦C global warming is highly dangerous
• Who Sez Climate Change Is A Significant Challenge? EVERYONE. (Nov 2015)
• Facing the harsh realities: Climate science has been manipulated or ignored by the IPCC, and by leaders meeting in Paris. We are committed to far more than 2 degrees of warming. A vastly changed world awaits. Radio Ecoshock 151118
•  IPCC Synthesis report 2014  |
• U.N. Panel Issues Its Starkest Warning Yet on Global Warming (NYT Nov 2014) |
• IPCC synthesis report for policy makers 2014  |
• UN Scientists See Largest CO2 Increase in 30 Years (Sept 2014)
•   IPCC (2013) Climate change. The physical science basis
• The Grantham institute on the climate and the environment
• If you’re worried about immigration, then you should be terrified about climate change 
• World’s Scientists Warn: We Have ‘High Confidence’ In The ‘Irreversible Impacts’ Of Climate Inaction
• NOAA: Global Analysis – Annual 2014 
• NOAA global analysis August 2014
•  NASA: 2013 Continues Long-Term Warming Trend  (Jan 2014)
• Global climate dashboard (NOAA)
• Climate change (World Bank)
• Cowtan and Way (2014): Surface temperature data update
• Climate Change Is ‘Perhaps The World’s Most Fearsome Weapon Of Mass Destruction’  (Feb 2014)
• Global warming hiatus explained and it’s not good news (April 2015)

• National Academies: A Discussion on Climate Change: Evidence and Causes (March 2014)
• AAAS 2014: What we know 
• 27 Powerful Photos That Show The Reality Of Climate Change Today
• NOAA: Recent global monthly mean CO2
• Keeling curve
• 6 Horrible Things We Have to Face Because of Climate Change
• NASA scientists react to 400 ppm carbon milestone
•  NASA: scientific consensus
• The Turning Point: New Hope for the Climate
•  2014: Will It Be The Hottest Year Ever?
• Leonardo DiCaprio Asks Everyone In The World To Stop Pretending Like Facts Don’t Exist
• Climate change in facts and figures
• Climate has changed before
• Major Disasters Linked to Extreme Weather, Climate and Water Hazards On the Rise
• New Study Provides More Evidence That Global Warming ‘Pause’ Is A Myth 
• Europe’s Warming Raises Tropical Disease Risk
• Al Gore: New thinking on the climate crisis
• Climate Change: Evidence & Causes (Royal society 2014)
• Ban Ki Moon: Now Is the Time to Act on Climate Change
• 21 Numbers That Explain Why The Time To Address Climate Change Is Right Now, Or Maybe Yesterday
• Climate Change Is Driving Heat Waves Around The World: Report
• Sea Level Rise Making Floods Routine for Coastal Cities
• Floods Will Become Frighteningly Frequent in East Coast Cities, New Report Shows
• NOAA Winter Outlook: California Drought Will ‘Intensify,’ Polar Vortex II ‘Unlikely’ (Oct 2014)
• Hansen & al (2013) Assessing ‘‘Dangerous Climate Change’’: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature
• On Droughts and Dust Bowls—California Looks Back to 1934  (Oct 2014)
•  NASA Bombshell: Global Groundwater Crisis Threatens Our Food Supplies And Our Security (Oct 2014)  |
• Super Typhoon Haiyan: ‘Unprecedented, Unthinkable and Horrific’
• Watch a year’s worth of CO2 swirl around the globe like a horrifying lava lamp
• Risk from extreme weather set to rise (BBC Nov 2014)
• Climate Disruption Depression and 2013 Emissions Set New Records
• Scientists Warn Leaders at Lima Climate Talks: Ocean Warming Drives Record Temperatures (Dec 2014)
• Morgan Freeman Talks About A Scary Situation We Know About. But The Potential Victims? We’re Wrong.
• It Might Be The Most Mind-Boggling Photograph Humanity Has Ever Taken
• In pictures: How the world is changing (BBC)
• World view of global warming
• This was an epic year for droughts, floods, and extreme weather
• NASA: California Needs 11 Trillion Gallons of Water to End Epic Drought

Tipping points in a warmer climate

• New Satellite Data Reveals Dramatic Shrinkage of Arctic Ice Cap (Feb 2015)
• Why Greenland’s “Dark Snow” Should Worry You (sept 2014)
• World’s Scientists Warn: We Have ‘High Confidence’ In The ‘Irreversible Impacts’ Of Climate Inaction
• Are You Ready for the Biggest Environmental Catastrophe of Our Lifetime? West Antarctica melting (April 2015)
• Rising carbon dioxide emissions push greenhouse gases to record high (Sept 2014)
• World Running Out Of Time To Stop Global Warming, UN Report Says (April 2014)
• AAAS (May 2014) Climate Change: ‘Abrupt,’ ‘Unpredictable,’ ‘Irreversible’ and ‘Highly Damaging’ 
•  West Antarctic ice sheet falling apart (NYT, May 2014)
• Climate Science Predictions Prove Too Conservative
• Report warns of climate change ‘tipping points’ within our lifetime
• Climate change is upon us and we must act (Guardian 2014)
• Tipping points – definitions
• Historic Wildfires Burn Through Canada As Sub-Arctic Forests Heat Up

Methane

•  Giant Holes in Siberia Are Evidence of Runaway Climate Change, Scientists Say.
•  The Really Scary Thing About Those Jaw-Dropping Siberian Craters
•  SWERUS-C3: First observations of methane release from Arctic Ocean hydrates
• Horrific Methane Eruptions in East Siberian Sea
• The Risky Business of Methane-Rich “Fire Ice”
• Report: Prepare for climate tipping points
• 5 Terrifying Facts From the Leaked UN Climate Report

Acidification

• ‘The Other CO2 Problem’: How Acidic Oceans Will Cost Our Economy Billions (Oct 2014)
• Groundbreaking Maps Detail Acidity of the Earth’s Oceans
• Atlas of mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremes (WMO 2014)
• The Nation Most Likely to Survive Climate Change
• Glacial melting inn Antarctica Makes Continent The ‘Ground Zero Of Global Climate Change’ (Feb 2015)
• Climate Science Predictions Prove Too Conservative
• Dahr Jamail | The Methane Monster Roars
• Update: Here comes El Niño. Greenland passes tipping points. Positive feedback accelerates. (March 2015)
• Antarctica Records Hottest Day Ever, New Study Finds Rapid Acceleration of Ice Melt
• North Siberian Arctic Permafrost Methane Eruption Vents (April 2015)

Sea level rise

• Unabated global mean sea-level rise over the satellite altimeter era (Nature, May 2015)
• New Climate Research Predicts Looming ‘Disaster for Many Low-Lying Cities’
  A new report suggests that the worst case climate scenario is closer than we think. (March 2016)

China and fossil fuels

• China’s secret offshore world: How politicians, ‘princelings’ and the rich hide their assets in tax havens
• China National Offshore Oil Corporation  (CNOOC)
• PetroChina
• Sinopec
• Citic resources
• Bradsher, K. (2014) China takes on big risks in its push for shale gas, NYT;

The Murdoch media empire

• Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers Mislead Public On Climate Change and Environment (DeSmog Blog)
• Rupert Murdoch’s media empire 
•  Rebecca Brooks scandal 
•  Rupert Murdoch and Fox news are dictated by carbon barons in the Middle East:
• Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal Alsaud – ‘Brooks Has To Go’ 

Climate year 2014