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I over hundre år har vår industrielle og moderne utvikling vært avhengig av fossil energi. Oljealderen fikk ekstra fart etter oljekrisen i 1972, og har gitt Norge en økonomi vi ikke kunne drømme om for 50 år siden. Dessverre er det også så mange skjulte kostnader og farlige bivirkninger at fortsatt bruk vil kunne true menneskehetens eksistens.

Truede økosystemer. Tiden renner ut. (Foto: P. Prokosch, GRID-Arendal)

Olje er blitt det moderne samfunns rusmiddel, og vi har gjort oss avhengige. Det har lenge vært på tide med avvenning, men å bekjempe avhengighet er vanskelig. Vi må innse at langvarig bruk av olje er farlig. Neste skritt er å effektivisere og redusere energibruk, og raskt bygge ut nye energiformer uten oljens ulemper.  Framtiden trenger råvare-ressurser som olje til ting vi ikke engang kan drømme om i dag. Det er uansvarlig bare å brenne den opp. I noen tiår har det vært klart at overgangen til et bærekraftig samfunn burde vært igangsatt i stor stil. Hadde man begynt å redusere bruken av olje da denne innsikten ble klar for oss, ville vi hatt en mykere tilpasning. Nå er våre samfunn langt på overtid i forurensning, og tegnene på en kommende katastrofe blir tydeligere. Oljealderen må avvikles over de neste 20 årene! Det er fire viktige problemområder:

Miljøforurensning

Kull og olje inneholder kjemikalier og partikler som skader helse og miljø. Vi frigjør for eksempel karbon, nitrøse gasser og svovel i store mengder. Oljesøl og utslipp til luft har alvorlige og langvarige, giftige effekter på miljøet. Fossil energi har mange skjulte kostnader. Tas miljøskader og klimaendringer med i det totale regnskapet, er ikke fossile energikilder lenger lønnsomme. Det Internasjonale Pengefondet (IMF) har beregnet at de årlige subsidiene til verdens fossilindustri er ca USD 2 trillioner.

Ikke-fornybare, begrensede ressurser og sårbare samfunn

Fossil energi er en begrenset ressurs. Vi bruker de lettest tilgjengelige kildene først, og blir avhengige. For å dekke etterspørselen, må man lete etter mindre tilgjengelige kilder. Det koster mellom 30 og 50 kroner å utvinne ett fat olje fra de gamle, store oljekildene i Nordsjøen, Saudi-Arabia, Texas og Baku. Prisen på det samme fatet fra en marginal kilde som eksempelvis i Barentshavet koster fort det tidobbelte eller mer. Fortjenestemarginene på ukonvensjonelle, vanskelige kilder synker raskt. Når de gamle kildene tømmes, vil oljeinntektene til land som Norge synke og kostnadene stige. Derfor er olje-industrien en «solnedgangsindustri». Internasjonal oljehandel trenger de marginale, ukonvensjonelle oljekildene som tjæresands-olje og dyre kilder i vanskelige områder for å dekke etterspørselen og holde systemet gående. Oljehandelen er et globalt system som er avhengig av store subsidier. I følge Det Internasjonale Energibyrået (IEA), Det Internasjonale Pengefondet (IMF) og World Resources Institute (WRI), mottar oljeindustrien globalt mellom 500 milliarder og 2000 milliarder dollar årlig, alt etter hvilke faktorer som inkluderes. Med skatteletter, statsgarantier og andre støtteordninger som oljeindustrien får, har utviklingen av fornybare energikilder vanskelige vilkår i konkurransen. Profitten til personer som kontrollerer eldre og billige oljebrønner er allerede svimlende, og de er villige til nesten hva som helst for å holde det gående i enda noen år. Det er uansvarlig å la overoptimistiske særhensyn til oljeindustrien bestemme framtiden. Subsidiene må flyttes over til «soloppgang-industrien»: fornybare energikilder, hvor miljøskadene er små, effektiviteten øker og kostnadene minsker.

Sårbar logistikk, flyktige priser og ujevn geografisk fordeling

De store reservene av billig råolje er konsentrert i Midtøsten, gamle «Sovjet-land» og Afrika. Her styrer “Big Oil”- direktører i tett forbindelse med korrupte og fanatiske regimer eller personer med egne agendaer. Over halvparten av de globale oljeinntektene går til slike regimer. Karbonsamfunnet er avhengig av jevn levering, og er sårbart for ukontrollerte prissvingninger. Våre samfunn styres i dag av grupperinger som “Big Oil”, “karbon-baroner” og “petro-tyranner”. Enorme opphopninger av kapital hos korrupte enkeltpersoner og udemokratiske regimer skaper voldelige konflikter som truer demokratiske styresett og gir stadig nye økonomiske kriser. Global oppvarming har vært dramatisk de siste ti-årene. Kilde: Verdens meteorologiske organisasjon, 2013  http://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_1119_en.pdf

CO2- utslipp og klimaendringer

Verdens mest anerkjente klimaforskere har påvist global oppvarming i luft, land og hav. Stigende temperaturer, økning i havnivået, reduksjon i bre-is og snødekke, varmere hav og havforsuring er blant symptomene. Våre klimasystemer er allerede i endring, noe som gir mer uforutsigbart vær, ekstremvær som stormer, tørke, mer tung snø i vintersesongene, femtiårsflommer hvert femte år, skogbranner og ulike vanskeligheter for landbruket. Samfunnets sårbarhet øker raskt uten massiv utvikling av alternative energikilder. Fortsatt langvarig bruk av fossilt brensel er dypt uetisk, truer livet på jorden og er på sikt økonomisk ødeleggende. Alle mennesker må delta i arbeidet for en overgang til fornybare og bærekraftige samfunn, og det må starte umiddelbart! I følge Verdensbankens Sir Nicholas Sterns rapporter om klimaendringer og økonomi, blir det voldsomt mye dyrere jo lenger vi utsetter omstillingen. Det er politisk uansvarlig og uetisk ikke å bygge ut alternative og fornybare kilder raskt. Det er meningsløst å la skattebetalere verden over fortsette å gi pengegaver til verdens rikeste mennesker for å ødelegge vårt felles miljø! Bare ved gradvis å avvikle vår oljeavhengighet og bygge opp en ny, miljøansvarlig økonomi kan vi sikre fremtidige generasjoner en reell mulighet for en lysere, mer dynamisk, renere og mer attraktiv framtid.

 

 

Kilder:

Menneskeskapt Global oppvarming og Klimaendringene

•  IPCC (2014) Mitigation of climate change
• IPCC Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
•  Klimapanelet: Ingen slipper unna (Aftenposten april 2014)
• IPCC 2013 – Climate Change: the physical science basis
• What the U.N.’s new climate report says about North America and the other continents (April 2014)
• So, after the IPCC report, which bit of the world are you prepared to lose? When people say we should adjust to climate change, do they understand what that actually means? (April 2014)
• World Running Out Of Time To Stop Global Warming, UN Report Says (April 2014)
• Let’s Call Climate Change What It Really Is—Violence (April 2014)
• AAAS (2014) What we know
• NASA (2014) Long-Term Warming Likely to Be Significant Despite Recent Slowdown
• Climate Science Systems (2014) Solution to cloud riddle reveals hotter future
• Jamall, D. (2014)  Evidence of Acceleration of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption on All Fronts
• Miljødirektoratet (2014) Utslippene må ned umiddelbart

•  National Academies: A Discussion on Climate Change: Evidence and Causes (March 2014)
• NASA Study: Climate Sensitivity Is High So ‘Long-Term Warming Likely To Be Significant’ (March 2014)
• Nature 2013; Outlook for Earth
• Recognizing the Elephant in the Room: Future Climate Impacts across Sectors
•  World Bank, 2012, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C World Must Be Avoided
• The crime of the century (Jan 2014)
• Your warming world. New Scientist 2014
•  Climate Change Is ‘Perhaps The World’s Most Fearsome Weapon Of Mass Destruction’  (Feb 2014)
• Data Gov Climate (US government)

• Climate change gets clocked
• Klimaendringene i tall og fakta 
• UN climate chief’s tears over future generations
• IPCCs femte hovedrapport: Viktige funn fra første delrapport

• Climate Change Report Predicts Warming Will Only Make Human Ills Worse

• Low Carbon Economy Index 2013 | Busting the carbon budget
• Hansen (2013) What we owe our kids on climate
• Watch out for climate ‘surprises,’ scientists warn
• Plants will reach point where they couldn’t possibly take another bite of our CO2
• The Mainstream Media’s Criminal Climate Coverage  (Feb 2014)
• What Are The Chances That Climate Change Is “Natural”?

• McKibben: Do the math   | Do the math – norske undertekster
• Global Mash-up: The Next Enlightenment, Part I

• Climate change is simple (Video lecture, norske undertekster)
• The global climate 2001-2010 (WMO, 2013)
• Economist: the future of oil – yesterday’s fuel (Aug. 2013)
• UNEP: the emission gap 2012
• Greenhouse gas emissions explained, in seven balloons
• IPCC report 2013: Summary for policy makers
• What the IPCC found: The big news from the new climate assessment
• Carbon trust summary of the IPCC report
• 7 things to know about the new UN climate change report
• President of Marshall islands: Climate Change Has Reached Our Shores 
• Hansen et al (2013) ‘Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future Generations and Nature’
• What Happens if We Don’t Prevent Average Global Temperatures from Rising?
• The climate champions of 2013
• NOAA: Global Analysis – Annual 2013 (Jan 2014)
• NASA: 2013 Continues Long-Term Warming Trend  (Jan 2014)
• Pentagon Calls Climate Change Impacts “Threat Multipliers,” Could Enable Terrorism (March 2014)

• NOAA/NASA: Global temperatures 2012
• NASA: 2012 temperature anomaly   
• NASA: climate
• NOAA: The Keeling curve
• NOAA: Arctic report card
• NOAA/NCDC: State of the climate
• NOAA Climate
• CRU: Climate
• Jones, Phil (2013) Global temperature records, CRU information sheets
• UK Met office: Climate change
• A Win for the Climate Scientist Whom Skeptics Compared to Jerry Sandusky
• AAAS: Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn (March 2014)
• AAAS 2014: What we know   |
•  NASA scientists react to 400 ppm carbon milestone  (March 2014)

• IPCC: Climate
• UNEP: Climate change
• CICERO: Klimaforskning
• Bjerknessenteret: Klimaforskning
• Tyndall Centre for climate change research
• Global carbon emissions set to reach record 36 billion tonnes in 2013 (Tyndall centre)

• Climate change task force
• IPCC: 30 years to climate calamity if we carry on blowing the carbon budget
• Al Gore: World is on brink of “carbon bubble”
• Forget Climate Change, We Must Prepare for a Catastrophic Climate Breakdown
• Greenhouse gas volumes reached new high in 2012: WMO (Reuters)
• Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in Atmosphere Reach New Record (WMO)
• Global carbon emissions set for a record in 2013

• Bubbles don’t crack. They burst
• The basics of climate science in 5 minutes
• Vi har ingen tid å miste.Hvem tar ansvar når Stoltenberg og Solberg ikke vil?
• World Social Science Report 2013: “Changing Global Environments”.
• National Research Council (2013) Abrupt impacts of climate change (National Academies press)
• Earth’s Sensitivity to Climate Change Could Be ‘Double’ Previous Estimates, Say Geologists
• Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing (Nature, 2014)
• The madding cloud: When forecasting the future, scientists’ blind spot is above them (Jan 2014)

• Australia Heat Wave Sets Records Across Continent (Jan 2014)
• Check out this shocking map of California’s drought (Jan 2014)
• National Academics / National Research Council: Climate change – lines of evidence video series

• Why It’s So Difficult to Face the Frightening Climate Change Reality
• Last hours  (on the methane feedback mechanism)
• Last hours website
• The ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ That Could Cause Such Rapid Global Warming We’d Be Unable to Prevent Extinction
• Being Passive or Neutral is not an option…
• Global Power shift
• Hansen et al (2013) Climate sensitivity, sea level and atmospheric carbon dioxide
• Remember the heat amid the clattering teeth: In a picture  (Jan 2014)
• Global Warming and the Common Man (March 2014)

• OECD: ‘No bailout’ for climate threat
• Fossil Fuel Emissions Must Be Eliminated To Save The Planet, And The Economy, OECD Warns
• Naomi Klein: Why Science Is Telling All of Us to Revolt and Change Our Lives Before We Destroy the Planet
• How to divest from fossil fuels, no matter the size of your piggy bank
• Increased Debt and decreased GDP – Is that some new “smart” economic logic…?
• Cowtan and Way: Surface temperature data update (2014)

Forurensning

• City of light dims: smog in Paris (March 2014)
• This scary map shows the health impacts of coal power plants in China (Jan 2014)
• Coal – The Greatest Threat to Civilization
• The real story behind coal

• Coal pollution in China lowers life expectancy by 5 years
• What A Year: 45 Fossil Fuel Disasters the Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About
• Harbin Smog Crisis Highlights China’s Coal Problem
• Smog pga kullbrenning i Kina

• Pollution From China Is Hitting America’s West Coast (Business Insider, Jan 2014)

• Air Pollution from Asia Affecting World’s Weather (Jan 2014)
• Wide Gap Between New Delhi, Beijing Smog Policies As India Lags On Curbing Pollution
•  Coal Industry Report On Social Cost Of Carbon Relies On Climate Science Denial (Feb 2014)

• The 10 Most Toxic Cities in the World |
• Another Toxic Threat from Climate Change
• Outdoor air pollution kills 2,5 million each year
• Europe: 22,300 premature deaths are caused by coal pollution… every year
• World wide air pollution causes 2 million deaths
• Diesel pollution causes 6% of lung cancers in US and UK, according to new study
• Hansen, J. (2013) Tar sand and dirty tricks
• 4 Things You Need to Know As BP Gulf Oil Spill Trial Resumes

Ekstremvær

• Is A Super El Niño Coming That Will Shatter Extreme Weather And Global Temperature Records? (April 2014)
• Is Weird Winter Weather Related to Climate Change? (March 2014)
• Is polar warming to blame for America’s and Britain’s bad winter weather? (Economist Feb 2014)
• 2013 in review: a year of increasing extreme weather events. John Vidal looks back at a year of record heatwaves, floods, rainstorms and cyclones (Guardian, Dec 2013)
• Scientific American: extreme weather events series
• Climate Change This Week: The Good, The Bad, The Old, The New in 2013, and More!
• The where and when of wetter and drier: disappearing Arctic sea ice plays a role (Feb 2014)

• To, tre grader til – er det så farlig?
• True climate stories
• The effects of climate change: Storm damage in Europe on the rise (Swiss re)
• Typhoon Haiyan – Was That Huge Storm Caused by Climate Change?
• Typhoon Haiyan death toll tops 6,000 in the Philippines
• Extreme heat waves to quadruple by 2040, study says
• Heat waves in China 2013
• Flooding due to rising seas could cost $1 trillion by 2050
• Deadly 1,000-year floods strike Colorado
• Pakistan can expect worse heatwaves to come, meteorologists warn
• El Nino Patterns Could Become Twice As Likely In A Warming World

Arktis og Antarktis

•  West Antarctic ice sheet falling apart (NYT, May 2014)  ||
• A note on collapse  ||
• Massive Antarctic Glacier Has Entered Irreversible Melt  (Jan 2014)
• Arctic sea ice freefall is mirror image of carbon dioxide ascent (Jan 2014)
• Consider Clashing Scientific and Societal Meanings of ‘Collapse’ When Reading Antarctic Ice News (May 2014)
• How the Melting Antarctic Glacier Will Make These 14 Coastal U.S. Attractions Look
• New Studies Suggest Many Coastal Cities Will Be Abandoned with Antarctic Ice Collapse (May 2014)
• Arctic sea ice delusions strike the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph
• Study: Arctic Sea Ice Loss Shifts Jet Stream, Driving Deluges In NW Europe, Drought In Mediterranean
• Antarctica is Sliding Sideways Due to Ice Loss
• Arctic news
• Thinning out on Antarctica
• Arctic theme page (NOAA)
• Sorry, skeptics: Arctic ice is still melting quickly this summer
• Arctic ice shrinking in volume, too: ESA (Sep 2013)
• Ingen gladnyhet om isen i Arktis
• Sørpe med konsekvenser
• The Jet Stream: How Its Response To Enhanced Arctic Warming Is Driving More Extreme Weather
• Arctic sea ice melts at alarming rate
• Arctic sea ice loss (video)
• Scientists Predicted A Decade Ago Arctic Ice Loss Would Worsen Western Droughts. Is That Happening Already?
• Like Butter: Study Explains Surprising Acceleration Of Greenland’s Inland Ice
• Nå smelter Antarktis-isen i rekordfart (Aftenposten, aug. 2013)
• Say goodbye to the Arctic ice
• Shipping has already quadrupled this year through the melting Arctic
• Massivt istap frå Grønlandsisen (Forskning.no)
• Possible arctic methane releases called ‘economic time bomb’
• The Climate Time Bomb That Will Cost Us $60 Trillion
• Klimabombe i Arktis
• Arctic Temperatures Reach Highest Levels In 44,000 Years, Study Finds
• Vast costs of climate change in the Arctic (Nature, 2013)
• The tipping point in action: twice as much methane released due to seabed permafrost melting

Biodiversity and climate change

• Humans Are Causing Largest Die-Off Since Dinosaur Age

Diseases and climate change

• As Global Temperatures Rise, the Malaria Pandemic Will Spread Upland

Jordbruk og klimaendringer

• Riots, Towns Gone Dry, Soaring Prices: The Food-Pocalypse Is Already Upon Us (April 2014)
• Climate Change Drying Out Southwest Now, With Worse To Come For A Third Of The Planet (April 2014)
• Cook, B. et al (2014) Global warming and 21st century drying

Oppvarmingspause?

• Ingen «pause» i global oppvarming likevel?
• Hotter extremes belie warming ‘pause’  (March 2014)
• The global climate 2001-2010 (WMO, 2013)
• NRK: Det er direkte feil å si at oppvarmingen har stoppet opp

• Lufttemperatur og nedbør – året 2013
• The Pacific Ocean is now warming 15 times faster than it used to
• Rate of Temperature Change Along World’s Coastlines Changed Dramatically Over Past Three Decades
• You can’t deny global warming after seeing this graph (Washington Post July 2013)
• June 2013 Temperatures Continue String Of 340 Consecutive Warmer-Than-Average Months
• Den globale oppvarmingen har ikke tatt pause
• Business as usual – nei takk

• Global warming in one unmistakably compelling chart
• Faux Pause: Ocean Warming, Sea Level Rise And Polar Ice Melt Speed Up, Surface Warming To Follow 
• New Research Confirms Global Warming Has Accelerated
• NASA: the nine warmest years on record have occured since 1998
• NASA: 2012 the 9th warmest year on record
• Solar activity heads for lowest low in four centuries

• It’s hard to sea but the globe is still warming
• Who created the global warming “pause”?
• Climate change summary and update
• World Bank: Dramatically warmer this century

Tipping points

• AAAS: Climate change is putting world at risk of irreversible changes, scientists warn (March 2014)
• Mr. President: Regulate Our Emissions Now or We Face Extinction (Feb 2014)
• Report warns of climate change ‘tipping points’ within our lifetime

Subsidier

• IMF Experts and Others Envision a World without Energy Subsidies. IMF calculates real subsidies to fossil fuels to be USD 2 trillion annually
• IEA (2012) World energy outlook
• Fossil Fuel and Renewable Energy Subsidies on the Rise
• IMF Rejects Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Calls for Reform
• What if solar got fossil fuel subsidies
• How you subsidise energy giants to wreck the planet
• Time to change the game: fossil fuel subsidies and climate
• Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History

Fornekting

• The terrarists -How to Make Staggering Amounts of Money and Ruin the Planet
• 2013′s Climate Grinches — Stealing Christmas Warmth And Putting It Into The Atmosphere
• Just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions‘
• Now the Kochs Are Coming After Your Solar Panels

• The Pyromaniacs Arrive with Blowtorches on Planet Earth (Jan 2014)
• White House smacks down climate deniers in new video (Jan 2014)
• Science Deniers Are Freaking Out About “Cosmos”  (March 2014)
• New study looks at how the Agenda 21 conspiracy is poisoning public discussion about sustainability

• Examining ‘Media’s Global Warming Fail’
• The 10 Biggest Polluters of the Industrial Age
• Assault on Clean Energy Revealed: How ALEC-Inpsired Laws Plans to Charge Homeowners Who Install Solar

• Feet to the Fire: Time to Hold the Big Energy Villains Who Kill the Earth While Making a Killing Accountable
• IPCC report: sceptic groups launch global anti-science campaign
• Scientists take the Mail on Sunday to task over claim that warming is half what IPCC said last time
• The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report
• Forget Climate Change, We Must Prepare for a Catastrophic Climate Breakdown
• Are you willing to take on the immense risk that Climate Change is posing?

• Climate Change Report From UN Introduces Purple Color To Depict Worsening Climate Risks (Associated Press)
• Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers Mislead Public On Climate Change and Environment (DeSmog Blog)
• Dollars for Deniers: Big Oil Funds Climate Science Denialism (Daily Kos)
• The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report (The Guardian)

• The Difference Between Global Warming Skeptics And Normal People
• Climate change and ethics
• Ekstrem forvandling
• Climate change: evidence, impacts and choices  (NRC)
• Global scientific consensus
• A Win for the Climate Scientist Whom Skeptics Compared to Jerry Sandusky

Fracking

• This is what fracking looks like
• Fracking and methane – gangplank to a warm future
• Our biggest enviro threat
• What so bad about fracking?
• With Tar Sands Development,Growing Concern on Water Use
• Setting the Record Straight on Tar Sands and Water Use
• Extreme Energy Extraction Roadtrip — The Scary Ways We’re Ruining the Country to Get Fossil Fuels
• Shale: High depletion rates in Bakken

Konsekvenser – miljø

• Nature (2014) Carbon is forever
• Regn med mer regn: Norsk forsker har bevist dramatisk klimaendring
• Global carbon atlas

• Varsler matmangel og flere kriger

• Varmere i Sør-Europa, våtere i Nord-Europa

• National Geopgraphic (2013) The rising seas
• Gulf of Mexico oilspill
• The warning label on oil products
• Tilbake til fortida
• Are We Witnessing The End Of Coral? 

• Climate changing 10 times faster than in the past 65 million years
• Climate set to change “orders of magnitude” faster than at any other time in the past 65 million years 
• Så mye vil havet stige på grunn av global oppvarming
• Climate change in Africa will hit the poor hardest
• Ocean Toastiness Sending Fish Fleeing for the Poles 
• Cooling Pacific has dampened global warming, research shows

Forsuring og oppvarming av havet

• Ocean acidification fact sheet
• Scientists Focus on Polar Waters As Threat of Acidification Grows (April 2014)
• Key Species of Algae Shows Effects of Climate Change Over Time (Science daily, Jan 2014)
• Ocean acidification
• Climate Change Devastating Ocean Fisherman: ‘Sometimes We’ll Catch 5,000 Pounds Of Jellyfish’
• Climate change is scaring the fish due to acidified oceans, study says
• Local Factors Cause Dramatic Spikes in Coastal Ocean Acidity: Fluctuation ‘Adds Insult to Injury’ for Marine Creatures (Science Daily Jan 2014)
• Watch this scientist fight climate change on the gorgeous Olympic Coast

• Surere hav bringer utslippene nærmere Norge
• Ocean Acidification Happening at 10X Rate Than Ever Before – Study
• World ocean systems undermined by climate change by 2100 |
• Havene forsures i rekordtempo

Stigende hav

• The flood next time (NYT, Jan 2014)
• This is what Earth will look like if we melt all the ice

Metan og raske klimaendringer

• The Climate Time Bomb That Will Cost Us $60 Trillion
• Methane Levels going through the Roof
• Vast costs of climate change in the Arctic (Nature, 2013)
• The tipping point in action: twice as much methane released due to seabed permafrost melting
• Har aldri sett noe lignende. – Tusenvis av skorsteiner i Østsibirhavet slipper ut metangass.

• Last hours  (on the methane feedback mechanism)
• Last hours website
• The ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ That Could Cause Such Rapid Global Warming We’d Be Unable to Prevent Extinction
• Researchers say Arctic Ocean leaking methane

Konsekvenser -økonomi

• Climate Panel Stunner: Avoiding Climate Catastrophe Is Super Cheap — But Only If We Act Now |
• Why Hasn’t Wall Street Imploded Over “The Carbon Bubble” Yet?   |
• Rent in a Warming World  (March 2014) |
• The booming business of global warming (March 2014)
•  It’s time to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry  |
• The 9 things utilities should worry about
• Climate change threatens economy of 4 PH cities  (Nation, Jan 2014)
• New Scientist (2013) IPCC digested: Just leave the fossil fuels underground
• You May Be Surprised How Much Our Climate Inaction Is Costing You
• Nicholas Stern: I got it wrong on climate change. It is far, far worse (Guardian 2013)
•  Nasa-funded Study: Industrial Civilization Headed for ‘Irreversible Collapse’ Due to Inequality, Exploitation  (March 2014) |

• Billion-Dollar Weather/Climate Disasters (NOAA)
• Inaction on Climate Change: The Cost to Taxpayers
• The Stern review on the costs of climate change (Yale)
• Working for the Few – Political capture and economic inequality (Oxfam Jan 2014)

• The Stern review on climate change
• Stern, N. (2013) The case for a European low-carbon economy
• Recklessly slow or rapid transition to a low-carbon economy? Time to decide (Stern) 
• Unburnable carbon: wasted capital and stranded assets
• The unburnable carbon
• The Grantham institute on the climate and the environment
• Big corporations are getting ready for carbon taxes, even if we’re not
• The Climate Change Performance Index

• Global oppvarming er lønnsomt – for oss
• Climate change could put $6 trillion in fossil fuel reserves at risk
• Carbon-Free Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Is Inevitable
• Fleire ødelagte hus og vegar

• Norge kan gå fra oljenasjon til miljønasjon – hvis vi vil
• Economists Forecast the End of Growth as We Know It — It’s About Time
• Ekonomernas skuld (SVT, 2013)
• An economy without Debt and Banks – is that reality or fiction…
• The end of the beginning. World Bank no longer supports coal
• World Bank: What climate change means for Asia,Africa and the coast poor
• Olje for de fattiges skyld?
• Climate policy and dependence on traded carbon
• Is climate change humanity’s greatest-ever risk management failure?
• Climate consensus – the 97% (The Guardian)
• Aftenposten (2013) Vis vilje til å bygge opp andre næringer nå    |   Det er vanskelig å kickstarte andre næringer når oljen tar slutt   |   Hva skjer med Norge om oljeballongen sprekker?    |   Jeg føler vi er med på et nytt industrieventyr
• E24 (2013) Veksten i oljeinvesteringene flater ut i år
• Bergens Tidende (2013) Norge etter oljen
• Ingen utradering av norsk olje
• Karbonutslipp må bli dyrere
• Sola setter oljen i skyggen
• World War 3: the unthinkable cost of preserving the petrodollar
• The biggest control knob: CO2 in Earth’s climate history
• Norge verre enn Saudi Arabia
• Vasakronan issues the world’s first green corporate bond

Olje og utvikling

• Climate change may pose threat to economic growth (CNN, Oct 2013)
• Climate change is decreasing farm yields just when we need them to go up
• The End of the Conflict-Creating Oil Age Is Coming Into View — Here’s What the Future Looks Like
• The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)  |
• Capitalism and the Destruction of Life on Earth: Six Theses on Saving the Humans
• Jansen: Fossile energikilder og UiBs ansvar
• 5 Things We Learned in 2013 That Could Move the Needle on Sustainability
• This Cozy Cabin Was Built In A Single Day. The Secret Is What It’s Made Of. (Emergency housing for climate refugees) 

• Developing Countries’ Carbon Emissions Will Vastly Outpace Developed Nations, U.S. EIA Says
• DN (2013) Vidunderoljen.Norge selger ikke olje av hensyn til klodens klima eller verdens fattige.
• Aid groups warn of growing hunger and disease as planet warms
• Oceans Face Triple Threat Of Warming, Declining Oxygen And Acidification, Study Shows
• Climate change threatening future life
• A Closer Look at Climate Panel’s Findings on Global Warming Impacts
• How A Former Tea Party Congressman Learned To Love Al Gore

• Almost Too Horrible to Contemplate: Global Warming Could Destroy the Lives of 750 Million People in the Short Future
• Have we hit a “permanent slowdown” in the growth of global CO2 emissions?

• How Could A Drought Spark A Civil War?
• Syria, Water, Climate Change, and Violent Conflict
• Environmental protests throughout the Middle East

Klima-flyktninger

• Which is more likely to drive people from their homes — floods or heat waves? Climate migration in Pakistan (Feb 2014)

Peak oil teorien

• Think “peak oil” is a discredited idea? Think again
• Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will ‘break economies’
• Peak oil lives – but will kill the economy
• Why peak oilers are still right
• Were the Peak Oil Theorists Right?
• Peak soil: industrial civilisation is on the verge of eating itself
• Peak Oil: The rise and fall of humans

Geo-engineering

• Why Messing With the Earth’s Climate to Reverse Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Make Everything Worse (March 2014)
• Al Gore: Use of Geo-Engineering to Head Off Climate Disaster Is Insane
• Climate engineering (Articles)
• Geoengineering kanskje ikke løsningen
• IPCC (2007) 11.2.2 Ocean fertilization and other geo-engineering options
• Geo-engineering methods
• Geoengineering Could Reduce Critical Global Rainfall
• GEA@275 Bio-Carbon Capture
• Geo engineering watch
• World May Have To Suck Gases From Air To Meet Climate Goals
• Global warming: Warning against abrupt stop to geoengineering method (if started)

Fornybar energi

• 100% sun, wind, and water can power each U.S. state and the world –Stanford study |
• DualWingGenerator – power generation with the wing-beating principle
• Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet
• Hansen, J. (2014) World’s Greatest Crime against Humanity and Nature (Nuclear is part of the solution!)
• Economist: the future of oil – yesterday’s fuel (Aug. 2013)
• We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power the World—So What’s Stopping Us?
• Norsk solenergiforening
• The European Energy Centre – training
• Interview With Robert F Kennedy Jr On Environmental Activism, Democratization Of Energy 
• Record German Wind Power Lifts Renewable Share Over ’20 Goal
• Solar Startup Could Make At-Home Renewable Energy Purchases As Easy As Booking Travel
• Solar Power Could Be A Total Game-changer — But They Still Need To Figure Out One Thing
• This graph shows why solar power will take over the world. The price of solar energy drops dramatically
• Sizing your residential solar PV system
• Zero energy homes have arrived
• Sustainable living
• Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN)
• Heavy Duty Vertical Axis Wind Turbines — HiVAWT Technology Corp
• Solar Academy Established in Egypt (March 2014)

• As Our Planet Fries, Think We Are Headed for Renewable Energy? Think Again

• Debunking the Renewables “Disinformation Campaign”

• Klimaets gode fiende (Dagbladet)
•  A song of our warming planet
• Turning climate action into reality (WRI)
• Amory’s Angle: Three Major Energy Trends to Watch

• Making green sexy and spiritual
• U.S. Solar Energy Installations Reach Record High in First Quarter
• Renewables to create quarter of world’s electricity by 2018-IEA
• Solar Power Cheaper Than Coal Foreseen By German Solar CEO
• Renewables now cheaper than coal and gas in Australia
• Renewables future no more costly than fossil fuels
• Graph of the Day: A turning point for the global solar market?
• Global capacity set to surpass 2 terrawatts by 2020 with power shifting to emerging markets
• Scientist James Hansen Proposes “People’s Climate Stewardship Act”: A Simple Carbon Fee with Revenue Returned to Americans
• CETO wave energy
• A High-Renewables Tomorrow, Today: Greensburg, Kansas
• New Arizona Solar Plant Uses Salt To Keep Producing Electricity When The Sun Goes Down

• Solar is Shining Bright in 2013 and Beyond
• Mapping the energy revolution (World Bank)
• Transition cultures – future without oil (TED lecture)
• Green Inventions: 10 Hot Eco-Innovations That Could Change The Planet (PHOTOS)
• Small Solar Installations To Help California City Save Millions

• Gamechanger: Next Generation Wind Turbines With Storage Are Cheap, Reliable And Brilliant
• Wind Turbines Are Quieter Than A Heartbeat, Acoustical Experts Find
• Cost effective benefits of geothermal energy
• eGallons: How much does it cost to drive on electricity compared to gasoline?
• Solar energy: how close is an off the grid reality?
• When Will Solar Get Cheap Enough for Everyone to Use?
• Renewable energy for all (UN & World Bank, 2013) 
• I am an eco warrior

• The sustainable society of 2040

Denne artikkelen er skrevet av: Dagny Nyfelt,  Sven Åke Bjørke, Ellen Schei Tveitdal, Toril E. Storeng og Odd Skaug Syvertsen på vegne av Besteforeldrenes klimaaksjon