Understanding and Responding to Climate Change is a new booklet from the National Academies highlighting themes from its many reports that have served to advise agencies working on understanding changing climate, documenting its impacts, and developing effective response strategies.
John Howe
The End of Fossil Energy – The Last Chance for Sustainability
by John Howe
http://www.mcintirepublishing.com/pages/energy.html
Now in it’s second printing and already supplies of this book are running low! This is a book about energy. A lesson in basic physics, a description of our current usage, and a suggested plan for future generations. Read it all in this comprehensive book by the visionary engineer and inventor John Howe.
Richard Heinberg
http://www.museletter.com/books.html
THE PARTY’S OVER
by Richard Heinberg
Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies
Industrial nations’ fossil-fueled joyride is about to end . . . is anyone prepared?
http://www.museletter.com/partys-over.html
POWERDOWN
by Richard Heinberg
Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
http://www.museletter.com/Powerdown.html
Matt Savinar
Life After the Oil Crash (web site)
“Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You”
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
The Oil Age is Over
By Matthew David Savinar
Matt Simmons
Twilight in the Desert – The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
by Matthew R Simmons
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
The most critical question facing the world energy market is whether Saudi Arabia can substantially increase its oil production to meet rising world demand in the years ahead. Sparked by personal observations of Saudi oil wells which led him to suspect that some Saudi fields were in decline, Matt Simmons has created a compelling case that Saudi Arabia production will soon reach an apex, after which its production will decline and the world will be confronted with an immense and potentially catastrophic oil shortage. The factual basis of the book is over 200 technical papers published over the last 20 years which individually detail problems with particular wells or particular fields, but which collectively demonstrate that the entire Saudi oil system is “old and fraying.” Based on his analysis, Mr. Simmons asserts that sudden and sharp oil production declines could happen at any time. Even under the most optimistic scenario, Saudi Arabia may be able to maintain current rates of production for several years, but will not be able to increase production enough to meet the expected increase in world demand. Eventually, the reckoning day will come and the world economy will be confronted with a major shock that will stunt economic growth, increase inflation, and potentially destabilize the Middle East.
For reviews: http://www.powells.com/biblio/047173876x?&PID=25450
Matt Simmons’ Bombshell
The Impending Decline of Saudi Oil Output
By Michael T. Klare
Commentary: On the impending decline of Saudi oil output – June 27, 2005
Introduction by Tom Engelhardt
For full text: http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/06/saudi_oil_bombshell.html
Michael T. Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author of Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Petroleum Dependency (Metropolitan Books).