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PO seems to be involved, too. Syria's dash for gas has been spurred by its rapidly declining oil revenues, driven by the peak of its conventional oil production in 1996. Even before the war, the country's rate of oil production had plummeted by nearly half, from a peak of just under 610,000 barrels ...

With the arctic warming, the jet stream is slowing down and oscillates with a higher amplitude, resulting in unusual weather. The first video, with Professor Francis, is especially worth watching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETpm9JAdfcs&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n...

I read the book of Georgescu-Roegen, but can't remember a lot about it, except that it connects entropy with economics. It's annoying that he confuses entropy, which is a measure of order, with the process of becoming disordered. He seemed to think he was saying something extremely profound, which m...

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/polar-apocalypse/ Ten percent of the Earth’s surface is covered in glacial snow and ice. As our planet heats up this frozen water is starting to melt at an increasing rate. This could have a catastrophic effect on the sea levels across the world. Coastal cities like Ne...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMAZJ6Eg ... r_embedded

Shell and Canada versus the Inuits.

Nuclear plants need cool water: http://www.alternet.org/environment/5-weird-and-terrifying-consequences-climate-change-you-may-not-know-about Nuclear power plants often rely on cold waters to cool their reactors. But as hot weather is causing water temperatures to rise, nuclear plants have had to re...

There is a chance that the Republican convention, which will be held to nominate the Romney/Ryan climate change denial team, will be disrupted.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/ ... 57184622/1

My suspicion is that ME an autoimmune based disease that is related to the stress of modern living. What I mean by that is that stress reduces the body's capacity cope with physical diseases that may attack it due to an over production of cortisone. Cortisone basically kills white T cells whose job...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0NrS2L6 ... r_embedded

Youtube extreme weather video featuring Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil

"We'll adapt to that."

I wonder how *** is doing over there in Denver.

in Ireland. The advert can be accessed from here

http://www.iretherm.ie/

I hope she is not elected. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Michele Bachmann has a promise: $2 gas. "Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again," Bachmann told a crowd Tuesday in South Carolina. "That will happen." Sure, politicians promise a...

The end result will be similar to the same Malthusian-era collapses analyzed by the cliodynamicians.

Cliodynamicians rule!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliodynamics

You can't, realistically, not have corruption when that sort of thing is allowed. That is what they were saying last night after the film, that the real problem is the way society is structured and he was behaving in the way elites always behave. They were also saying that Blair should be tried in ...

This is something I learned from The Alternative Iraq Enquiry http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/?p=559 Tony Blair gets 5,000,000 pounds a year from JP Morgan http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7186975.stm the very same bank that was selected to operate a bank the United States created in Iraq to manag...

This article is food for thought.

http://www.slate.com/id/2278240/