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Hvem tjener på fortsettelse av olje-alderen? Hvem er villige til å risikere barns og barnebarns framtid for kortsiktig profitt? Hvem er mot en rask overgang fra fossil energi til fornybar energi? Er menneskeskapt global oppvarming og krig i Midtøsten deler av den samme problematikken? Hvem tjener på terror og eskalering av krig i Midtøsten, høy oljepris og varmere klima? Hvem har makt til å presse sine ønsker på verdenssamfunnet?

Steinalderen tok ikke slutt på grunn av mangel på stein, men fordi bedre alternativer ble funnet. Den fossile energis tidsalder vil ende når bedre alternativer er tilgjengelige.  Det skjer nå.

Fossil energi er antagelig ikke lenger lønnsom hvis de reelle og skjulte kostnadene regnes med

Ifølge det Internasjonale pengefondet (IMF) subsidieres fossil energi med to tusen milliarder dollar per år. Dette globale regimet for perverse subsidier til multimilliardærer må nå avsluttes. Fossil energi bør betale for sine negative eksternaliteter, slik de fleste andre må gjøre. Når det skjer, vil kostnadene ved å produsere fossilt brensel øke, mens fortjenesten faller. Fornybare energikilder kan nå konkurrere i pris med fossil energi. Effektiv, storskala lagring av energi fra fornybare kilder er tilgjengelig om noen år.  Olje- eksportører, spesielt i Midtøsten,  produserer nå på topp kapasitet for å selge mest mulig før den  blir en “stranded asset” – verdiløs
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 calls for carbon tax on aviation and shipping  ||      IMF chief calls for end to fossil fuel subsidies  (March 2016)|| Renewable energy ||

Klimaforskning under angrep fra fossil-industrien

Seriøs klimaforskning angripes heftig, aggressivt, uredelig og manipulerende av arabisk- amerikanske kull- og oljemilliardærer. De bruker hundrevis av millioner dollar i året på å produsere propaganda og hetse klimaforskere. De fleste innser likevel at det ikke er mulig å  brenne av over 90 millioner fat olje hver dag, og en tilsvarende mengde kull og gass uten økologiske konsekvenser. Framtidens værmelding er  lange tørkeperioder avbrutt av slagregn og flom. Stadig mer uberegnelig vær, med sterkere stormer, voldsomme skogbranner og mer insektangrep på vegetasjonen. Stadig vanligere med hetebølger. Kortere, varmere, men mer isete vintre.kombinert med perioder med store mengder tung snø. Ekstremværet blir stadig mer normalt. Dette er klimaet vi gir våre barn.

I USA er det en hel industri av «tenketanker» og PR-firmaer som sprer desinformasjon til publikum, skoler og media. Manipulerende, bagatelliserende og forvirrende klimapropaganda tar oppmerksomheten vekk fra realitetene og det brutale maktspillet som nå foregår i det globale nettverket av olje-giganter. “Internett troll“, “skeptikere” og andre løpegutter for global fossil-industri organiseres og angriper og forvirrer enhver seriøs diskusjon om klima i media.

Olje-og kull-milliardærene, Putins regime i Russland, Midtøstens tyranner og ekstrem-islam lever høyt på fossil energi. Disse mennene er villige til å gjøre hva som helst; finansiere terrorisme, starte kriger og risikere framtida for egne barnebarn, for å utsette overgangen fra karbonsamfunnet til bærekraftig utvikling-samfunnet.

Krig i Midt-Østen – krig om olje

Mange land i Midtøsten er nå i krig.  Hovedkonflikten står mellom to blokker, den ene ledet av det shia-muslimske ayatollah-regimet i Iran, den andre av ekstremislamister i Saudi-Arabia, hovedsakelig wahabbist-sunnier.  Iran får en viss politisk støtte fra Asia og Russland. Saudi-Arabia kontrollerer Aramco, verdens rikeste olje-selskap, og får dermed støtte fra partnerne i amerikansk oljeindustri. Krigene framstilles i økende grad som en religiøs krig mellom sunnier og shia. De mest fanatiske tyr til terrorisme. Sterke interesser ønsker å nøre opp under det religiøse aspektet.  Den underliggende årsaken til konflikten er imidlertid kampen om hvem som skal kontrollere olja og med den hegemonisk makt og penger i området. I tillegg kommer kampen om vann. Krigen i Syria begynte i konflikt over vanntilgang. Hele Midt-Østen preges av økende vannmangel. Den verste tørken på mange hundre år pågår fortsatt. Den mest folkerike staten i araberverdenen; Egypt, er i en tilstand av ferskvannskrise. Oljeinntekter muliggjør direkte og indirekte vannimport. Kamp om vann- og oljeressurser er en såpass eksplosiv blanding at væpnede konflikter raskt kan eskalere. Dersom det skulle komme til militær konfrontasjon mellom Saudi-Arabia og Iran, kan det hindre tankskipsfarten i den Persiske gulf og i Rødehavet, hvor over en fjerdedel av verdens daglige olje passerer.

NATO-landene bør være klar over at hvis de ønsker å bekjempe ISIL, vil de uunngåelig styrke Irans stilling, svekke Saudi Arabias og vice versa. ISIL er ekstrem-sunnier og wahabbister med røtter og finansiering i Saudi Arabia. Hvis de vestlige landene ønsker å gå til de underliggende årsakene,  må de slutte å pøse petro-dollar inn i Midtøsten. Dagens internasjonale fossilenergi-nettverk garanterer finansiering av terrorisme og krig.

Fruktbart område for jihadist-rekruttering

Egypts evne til å produsere sin egen olje svekkes, med sterkt krympende olje og gasskilder. Store deler av infrastrukturen er basert på billig, subsidiert olje. Egypt er i tillegg verdens største importør av hvete. Millioner av egyptere er avhengige av  subsidiert hvete for å overleve. Med et stadig varmere og tørrere klima og mulig synkende vannstand i Nilen, nærmer Egypts økonomi seg sammenbrudd, evnen til å subsidiere og importere vil bli redusert, og  ekstreme grupper vil få gode rekrutteringsmuligheter i regionens mest befolknings-rike land. Andre land i tilsvarende krise er Libya, Algerie, Sudan, Jemen, Somalia,, Mali, Pakistan og Bangladesh bare for å nevne noen. Saudi Arabia sender sine egne sinte, unge menn, godt hjernevasket med wahhabisme, på jihad-krig i andre land, og bidrar med petro-dollar og våpen. I følge den amerikanske utenriksministeren er Saudi Arabia utvilsomt den største bidragsyteren til terrorisme i verden. Det er liten tvil om at både Al Qaeda og ISIL har fått og får massive pengeoverføringer fra Saudi Arabia.

Spekulasjon i stigende oljepris?

Samvittighetsløse spekulanter jubler over mulighetene til høye oljepriser. De lave oljeprisene nå er sannsynligvis midlertidige, men gir gunstig aksjepris for kjøpere mens oljelagrene bygges opp. Store oljelagre betyr en lengre periode med lave priser. Prisen per fat vil trolig falle til under 60 dollar  siden OPEC ikke reduserer sin produksjon, kanskje til og med prisen per fat synker under 40 dollar. Når det skjer, vil marginal oljeproduksjon som skifer, tjæresand og dypvannsutvinning ikke lenger være lønnsom og legges ned.  Også fracking-eventyret i USA kan dermed bli kortvarig. Slike aktiviteter kan avsluttes raskt, men vil trenge lang tid på å starte opp igjen.

Krigene i Midt-Østen kan komme til å eskalere dramatisk, og hindre oljeutvinning og transport i store deler av regionen.  Med et mulig økonomisk oppsving i USA (??), vil etterspørselen etterhvert antagelig stige mens tilbudet reduseres. Spekulantene håper på en dobling av oljeprisene. Et annet mulig scenario er at den uansvarlige strategien om maksimal produksjon som de store oljeselskapene kom opp med for noen år siden har ødelagt markedet, og at oljeprisen vil holde seg lav inntil videre.

I motsetning til spekulantene planlegger oljeselskapene for ti år eller mer inn i framtiden. De vet at stiger oljeprisen kraftig, opphører produksjonen av bensin- og dieselmotorer og oljealderen avsluttes i løpet av få år. Oljeselskapene ønsker stabile priser. Det spørs om det ønsket kan klare seg mot spekulantenes ønsker og de dramatiske og blodige realitetene i Midtøsten. I tillegg begynner fornybar energi å gjøre seg bemerket på energimarkedet, og en del banker synes å foretrekke investeringer i stadig billigere fornybar energi framfor stadig dyrere og mer usikker fossil energi.

Petrodollaren

Et ytterligere problem er “petrodollaren”.  Siden 1970-tallet, handles olje over hele verden i amerikanske dollar. Dollaren er internasjonal valuta. Mange land, kanskje spesielt Kina, Russland og Saudi-Arabia har store reserver i USD.  Dette har så langt vært en fordel for USA. Amerikanerne har kunnet trykke ekstra dollars og unngå inflasjon siden det internasjonale samfunnet ville ta vare på pengesedlene.  Dessverre har USA hatt en tendens til å utnytte systemet ved å bygge opp gjeld og underskudd i  større grad enn det ellers anses lurt for andre økonomier. Spørsmålet er hva som skjer hvis verdenshandelen i olje går vesentlig ned eller ikke lenger betales i oljedollar.  Hva skjer i en situasjon med konflikt og konfrontasjon mellom Russland og Kina på den ene siden og USA på den andre? Hvis Saudi Arabia i en slik situasjon finner at deres interesser ikke lenger er tjent med tette bånd til USA, ville det kunne ha innvirkning på verdensøkonomien?

Et mulig scenario kan være at Russland, Kina og Saudi-Arabia bestemmer seg for å selge sine stabler med dollar, og erklære at fra nå av krever de betaling i andre valutaer enn dollar. Petrodollaren har fungert bra for USA i fire tiår. Men vil dette fortsette? Med krigene i Midt-Østen og Russland / Ukraina konflikten som bakteppe, bør kanskje vestlige land  vurdere hvordan redusere økonomisk sårbarhet i tilfelle av  økonomisk krigføring mot petrodollaren.

I realiteten finnes det bare en måte å redde vår verdens klima og økosystemer, få en mer robust økonomi, redusere konfliktnivået i Midt-Østen og vinne krigen mot terror: Vi må ut av oljeavhengigheten vår snarest.

Kortsiktig  spekulasjon i mulig dobling av oljeprisen kan sikkert være fristende for de oljefrelste. Solenergi er allerede konkurransedyktig i pris. Fornybar energi øker raskt i effektivitet og synker i pris

Overgang til fornybarsamfunnet er billig

Kanskje du heller skulle investere pengene dine i framtidens energiformer istedenfor den stadig mer bloddryppende olje-sektoren? Oljealderen går mot slutten.  Petro-tyranner og oljespekulanter kjemper desperat for hegemoni noen tiår til.   Denne kampen må fornybar energi vinne. Når bensinprisen går over 25 kroner literen vil overgangen bli rask.

Vi har teknologien, vi har pengene og vi vet hva som må gjøres. Det vi ikke har er tid.
Teknologien er her, og i rask utvikling. I følge FN er det overraskende billig å gå over til fornybar energi og avvikle fossil-energisamfunnet. Nina Jensen i WWF skriver:  Her er fem gode grunner til å bli en klimaoptimist (Aftenposten). Foreløpig er innslaget av fornybar energi i den globale energimiksen marginal. Det vesentlige er å få til en rask eksponensiell vekst i fornybare energikilder. Minst 50% innen 2035 bør være en overkommelig målsetting.   || How California Could Power Itself Using Nothing but Renewables  ||  The climate swerve (NYT, Aug 2014)  ||

Vippepunkter

Det er grunner til optimisme. Men det er også tegn på at vi har dårlig tid. Vi risikerer å passere ett eller flere vippepunkt og få et klima som løper løpsk:  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 ||  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  || Science chief warns on acid oceans (BBC Oct 2014) ||  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  ||  New Theory Behind Dozens of Craters Found in Siberia ||

Fossil-profitørene og deres nettverk

President Putin

Russlands president Putin var tidligere oberst i KGB og leder i FSB. Han sier at den største ulykken de siste hundre år var Sovjetunionens fall, og ønsker som kompensasjon å bygge opp et nytt stor-Russland.  Med en litt varmere klode, vil Russland kunne doble sitt jordbruksareal nordover, etter hvert som permafrosten smelter. Putin har ikke noe i mot litt global oppvarming. Russland er verdens største eksportør av fossil energi. Gigantselskapene Rosneft og Gazprom kontrolleres begge av Putin. Hver dag tjener Russland over en milliard petrodollar. Fjernes inntektene fra fossil energi, faller antagelig Putins imperium.
Trump, Putin, and ExxonMobil team up to destroy the planet (Dec 2016)

Ibn Saud familien

Verdens rikeste familie eier «Arab-American Oil Company» (ARAMCO), verdens rikeste selskap. Saudi-Arabia er verdens største olje-eksportør. Ibn Saud familien er åndelig overhode for en ekstrem-islamistisk sekt, wahabbistene, med ambisjon om religiøst hegemoni, eller kalifat,  basert på fundamentale sharialover. Ekstremislamistiske terrorgrupper over hele verden finansieres om ikke alltid direkte av kongefamilien, så uansett fra Saudi-Arabia. Terrorgruppa ISIL er ikke erklærte tilhengere av kongefamilien, men de er erklærte wahabbister.

Ibn Saud familien eier Ghawar, verdens største oljefelt. I motsetning til de fleste oljekilder i Nordsjøen og tjæresand i Canada, er utvinning av olje i ørkenstatene billig, under ti dollar per fat. Utsalgsprisen for ett fat olje ligger på mellom 40 og 150 dollar. Saudi Arabia selger ca. ti millioner fat olje hver dag. Daglig inntekt bare fra råolje er i snitt over en milliard dollar. I tillegg kommer finansinntekter fra plasseringer i USA.  Saudi-Arabia ville vært et fattig ørkenland uten oljeinntektene. Den saudiske kongefamilien gjør hva som helst for å holde fossilsamfunnet gående noen år til. I tillegg har de et lønnlig håp om at litt mer global oppvarming skal øke nedbøren over araberstatene, slik det skjedde under holocen optimum for 5000-10000 år siden.

Andre ekstremislamistiske regimer (petrotyrannier)

Kuwait, Qatar, Emiratene, Usbekistan, Aserbajdsjan, Iran, Irak selger olje og gass for å overleve. Sammen med Saudi-Arabia, kontrollerer ekstreme islamistiske regimer og Russland over halvparten av verdens konvensjonelle oljekilder, og tjener daglig over 5 milliarder dollar bare på råolje.  Så lenge petro-pengene flyter inn, er demokrati lite aktuelt. (Se 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)

Kinas kommunistparti

PetroChina eies av kommunistpartiet og er Kinas største oljeselskap med mer enn en billion dollar i kapitalisering.. CNOOC og Sinopec kontrolleres også av Kinas kommunistparti, eller rettere deres “princelings”, og er blant verdens største selskaper.  Investeringene i disse enorme selskapene sinker overgangen til bærekraftige energikilder.

De syv søstre (Big oil)

Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, BP og ca hundre andre oljeselskaper  Ifølge Aramcos hjemmeside er mange av de største vestlige oljeselskaper partnere. Aramco sammen med partnerne er trolig den største økonomiske enhet i verden.

Koch brødrene

Charles og David Koch er  amerikanske multimilliardærer, tungt involvert i fossil energi og finansierer “tenketanker” som Heartland inst, Cato Inst etc, i virkeligheten propagandaselskaper. Koch-brødrene har sine røtter i den ekstreme organisasjonen John Birch Society . Koch-formuen bygger i stor grad på tvilsom forretningsetikk og på samarbeid med Sovjetunionens Stalin.  Koch-brødrene investerer tungt i desinformasjon og betaler «forskere» for å produsere forvirrende forskningsresultater. De er dypt involvert i lyssky transaksjoner i Midtøsten.

Rupert Murdoch

Media mogul og multimilliardær. Dirigerer mye av verdens massemedia. Han er nært forbundet med den saudiske kongefamilien og fossil-industrien.

Fossilenergi-perioden kan raskt avvikles.
Tre effektive tiltak:

1. All statlig subsidiering og spesielle statsgarantier for kull- og oljeindustrien avvikles over hele verden. Det Internasjonale pengefondet (IMF) støttes på dette punkt. IMF ser store økonomiske og miljømessige fordeler med avvikling av slike subsidier.

2. Det settes en 10% karbonavgift på fossil energi der den hentes opp eller ved innskipningshavn. Ingen unntak. Importerte produkter fra land uten klimapolitikk belastes også. Skatten økes med 10% i året. Inntektene fordeles likt på alle statsborgere over 18 år. Forslaget fra James Hansen støttes. | En klimaløsning for folk flest (BT 2014) | En avgift til folket (NHH 2014)  |   Hansen, J. (2014) Too little, too late? Oops? Carbon tax! |  Hansen, J. (2015)Golden opportunity |    IMF calls for carbon tax on aviation and shipping  || ||
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3. Oljeindustriens subsidier og statsgarantier går over til fornybar energi for å påskynde den pågående omveltningen.    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) |

Les mer:

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)
• Climate year 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
• La demanda de energía eléctrica desciende un 0,2% en el 2014
• Bortreist å hjelpe oljenæringa (NRK jan 2015)
• Sustainable Energy Revolution Grows, Says Bloomberg Report (Feb 2015)
• «Vi er på vei mot en hard landing»: Forskere om kunnskap, følelser og klimapolitikk (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
• Electric cars produce lower global warming emissions than the average compact gasoline-powered vehicle (UCS, 2014)
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  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)
• Report: Solar Will Dominate World Energy Supply in Just 15 Years (March 2015)
• Alle hus vil i framtida ha solcelle-tak (NRK feb 2015)
• Solenergi kan forsyne verdens kraftbehov innen 2030 (VL Jan 2015)
• Why Tesla’s battery for your home should terrify utilities (Feb 2015)
• The truth about the price of solar energy
• 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)
• Rooftop solar is now cheaper than the grid in 42 American cities (Jan 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
•  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
• This glass sphere might revolutionize solar power on Earth
• Good News About Solar Energy From Disparate Parts of the World
• What if Solar Panel Where on Every Family Roof ? #Infographic
• 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)
• Major milestone for solar farm Australia (March 2015 video)
• Look Out Utility Companies: Tesla is Disrupting More Than Just the Auto Industry (March 2015)
• Solar Energy Around the World (2015)
• Stanford University Study Finds Utility-Scale Solar Development Enough to Power Communities (March 2015)
• Solar Energy Could Power the World
• Japan has just opened one of the world’s largest floating solar power plants (April 2015)

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?

  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

• New Silent Wind Tree Turbines Make Energy Production Beautiful
• Top wind energy myths (Feb 2016)
• 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
• Wind energy in the USA infographic 2014
• 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

Norsk om klima og fornybar energi

• Hvorfor fysiker Benestad mener at fysiker Bergsmark tar feil (Jan 2017)

• Klekker klimaløsninger bak lukket dør (Aftenposten nov 2014)
• Det bærekraftige samfunnet av 2040 
• Ylvas verden – Hvithai i Oslofjorden. Grønn jul. Dødelige hetebølger i Europa. Dette kan være virkeligheten når Ylva (4) vokser opp (yr.no)
•  Haugan, P. (2014) «Løsningene finnes, vi må bare komme i gang» 
• Mer strøm fra sola
• Klimaåret 2014
• Oljealderen må avvikles
• Klimakino. Aktuelle filmer på nett
• Miljødirektoratet: FNs klimapanel konkluderer: Klimatilpasning og raske utslippskutt er nødvendig
• Grunnlovsstridig oljepolitikk i Arktis
• Grunnloven § 112 – et fyrtårn for «det grønne skiftet»

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 and Asia

• Saudi Arabia a Force for Stability? Dream On! (Jan 2016)
• One More Reason to Re-Evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance (Jan 2016)
• After Years of Proxy War, Saudi Arabia and Iran Are Finally Squaring Up in the Open (Jan 2016)
• Why Saudi extremism is an argument for electric cars, wind and solar energy (June 2017)

• Why ISIS Wants the Paris Climate Talks to Fail (Nov 2015)
• Islamic State Sprouting Limbs Beyond Its Base (NYT Feb 2015)
• Bernie Sanders: ‘Climate Change Is Directly Related to the Growth of Terrorism’ 
• The Pentagon Is a Massive, Unacknowledged Threat to the Global Climate (Dec 2015)
• Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip
• Kampen om vann kan føre til krig (Vårt Land okt 2014)
• Human-Caused Warming Helped Trigger Current Syrian Conflict And Rise Of ISIS  (March 2015)
• A G7 Report Says Climate Change Can Fuel Political Upheaval Like Civil Wars (June 2015)
• Climate Change Is Likely a Cause of the Civil War in Syria, Researchers Say (March 2015)
• 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
• 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
• Islamic State Sprouting Limbs Beyond Its Base (NYT Feb 2015)
• The Growing China-Russia-Iran Strategic Alliance Has Got the Pentagon Trembling
• 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)
• Klimaendringer og konflikt i Syria (Cicero Nov 2015)
•  Leif Wenar: Oil: Power, Conflict and Trade in a Natural Resource

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
• Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America’s Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years

Big oil, King Coal

• ExxonMobil And Russia Began Drilling For Oil In The Arctic On Saturday
• Exxon is Flooding the World with Fossil Fuels that Could Destroy Life As We Know It (Feb 2016)
• America could have dropped big oil decades ago. What happened? (Alternet June 2012)
• 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)
• California Aquifers Poisoned by Fracking While State’s Water Shortage Becomes Grim (Oct 2014)
• 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)
• 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)
• “Merchants of Doubt”: Meet the sleazy spin doctors who will stop at nothing to obscure the truth (March 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.)

• 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)

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)
• 11 Things The Koch Brothers Don’t Want You To Know, From Robert Greenwald’s Newly Updated Documentary
• Koch Bros exposed 2014 
• Now That Solar Capacity Is Soaring—Koch Brothers Demand Tax on the Sun 
• David Suzuki: Koch Brothers Continue to Oil the Machine of Climate Change Denial (April 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

• 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”  
• 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
• 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
• Koch Brothers’ Budget of $889 Million for 2016 Is on Par With Both Parties’ Spending (NYT Jan 2015)
• Now They’re Saying It in Public: Professor At Koch-Funded University Department Calls For ‘Less Democracy’
• 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’
• Research Confirms ExxonMobil, Koch-funded Climate Denial Echo Chamber Polluted Mainstream Media (Nov 2015)

 The unstable and vulnerable economy of the fossil fuel age

• Oil majors told to adapt or die (May 2016)
• The desperate plight of petrostates (May 2016)
• US coal crash ‘serves as a warning’ to fossil fuel investors (March 2015)
• Is Fracking Really Dying? Are falling prices killing shale oil and gas, or will the environmental horror return? (Jan 2015)
• Slump in oil prices bring pressure and investment opportunities (NYT Feb 2015)
• The Real Story Behind the Oil Price Collapse (March 2015)
• Saudi Arabia Just Delivered Another Strike in the “Oil War” (April 2015)

• 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)

• Australian health fund follows international organisations moving to divest in coal (Oct 2014)
• Big investors to act on carbon footprint of assets in bid to tackle climate change (Guardian Sept 2014)
• IPCC Scientists Emphasize Immorality Of Inaction By Focusing On ‘Irreversible Impacts’
• Future Investments in Fossil Fuels Look Dim
• Energy crises and investments
• Who Is Afraid Of Fossil Fuel Divestments? Apparently The Fossil Fuel Lobby
• Fossilt brensel er dyrere enn vi tror (Aftenposten nov 2014)
• Coal to rival oil as dominant energy source by 2017: IEA
• Europe emission targets ‘will fail to protect climate‘ (BBC Nov 2014)
• Experts: Fracking Industry Likely to Crash Due to OPEC Decision to Keep Oil Production High (Nov 2014)
• 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
• 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)
• What the U.S. Should Learn from Russia’s Collapse (Dec 2014)

• The 25 year depression (Maybe a bit speculative)
• 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)
•  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
•  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 
•  Climate action could spur $2 trillion in economic growth in 2030 alone
• UBS Urges Investors to Join Renewables Revolution
• Stop talking about conservation. We need restoration and rehabilitation.
• Lord Stern Report: Transform Global Economy to Fight Climate Change
• Hansen, J. (2014) Speaking Truth to Power – and to Friends
• 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.
• Five Reasons Climate Deniers Are Dead Wrong
• 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

• 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

• Our children’s trust
• Global Leaders on Pace to Rescue the Climate (Jan 2016)
• 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 
• Målstrid i EU. EU kan gå fra tre klimamål til ett. Da må klimakvotene repareres. (DN Okt 14)
• How To Engage And Win The Conversation About Climate And Energy
• UN Climate Summit catalyzing action
• Assuring Real Progess on Climate (James Hansen, 2014)

Climate change

• 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)
• 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
• FNs klimapanel konkluderer: Klimatilpasning og raske utslippskutt er nødvendig
• Her melder hun været for 2050. NRKs meteorologer nov 2014
• | 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  |
•   IPCC (2013) Climate change. The physical science basis
• Groundhog Decade: We’re Stuck In A Movie Where It’s Always The Hottest Decade On Record
• NASA: California Needs 11 Trillion Gallons of Water to End Epic Drought

• The Grantham institute on the climate and the environment
• World’s Scientists Warn: We Have ‘High Confidence’ In The ‘Irreversible Impacts’ Of Climate Inaction
• If you’re worried about immigration, then you should be terrified about climate change
• NOAA: Global Analysis – Annual 2014 
• UN Scientists See Largest CO2 Increase in 30 Years (Sept 2014)
•  NASA: 2013 Continues Long-Term Warming Trend  (Jan 2014)
• Cowtan and Way (2014): Surface temperature data update
• Norge er i gjennomsnitt blitt mer enn to grader varmere fra 1979 til 2009 (Aftenposten aug 2014)
• Climate Change Is ‘Perhaps The World’s Most Fearsome Weapon Of Mass Destruction’  (Feb 2014)
• National Academies: A Discussion on Climate Change: Evidence and Causes (March 2014)
• AAAS 2014: What we know 
• 2014 — the HOTTEST YEAR YET.
• Leonardo DiCaprio Asks Everyone In The World To Stop Pretending Like Facts Don’t Exist
• 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

• 27 Powerful Photos That Show The Reality Of Climate Change Today
• Super Typhoon Haiyan: ‘Unprecedented, Unthinkable and Horrific’
• Ingen plan B for klimaendringer (FN.sambandet nov 2014)
• Risk from extreme weather set to rise (BBC Nov 2014)
• Climate Disruption Depression and 2013 Emissions Set New Records
• Atlas of mortality and economic losses from weather, climate and water extremes (WMO 2014)
• Global warming hiatus explained and it’s not good news (April 2015)

• 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?
• Climate change in facts and figures
• Klimaendringer har da skjedd før
• 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
• Global climate dashboard (NOAA)
• Climate change (World Bank)
• 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)  |
• Watch a year’s worth of CO2 swirl around the globe like a horrifying lava lamp
• Scientists Warn Leaders at Lima Climate Talks: Ocean Warming Drives Record Temperatures (Dec 2014)
• This was an epic year for droughts, floods, and extreme weather

 

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)

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’ 

Klimaåret 2014