California Drought - now and the MWP

California is in a period of severe drought, and this may lead to mandatory water rationing, since even preparations established in better t...

Overhead or Underground Power lines

There are thousands still without power in Kentucky and there are some who may remain that way for a week or more yet. This has been the ...

P27. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Somewhere in Washington they are looking for incentives for us to buy a new car . The Germans have s...

Looking for Bovanenkovo

Sometimes it is hard to understand just how difficult it might be to get new supplies of natural gas to the market. When we talk of additio...

P26. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Former Vice-President Gore has given his support to the Administration’s Stimulus package. He suppo...

"The Myth of the Oil Crisis" - Part 2

Well if yesterday was all misty ice, today was the snow cover that makes getting out of the drive a real challenge. So back to the book, and...

P25. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: What to do about the contradiction that rising commuter traffic is moving to metro train and bus lin...

"The Myth of the Oil Crisis" - A Review (Part 1)

The Actress and I are at home today, sitting out a Winter Storm over the Mid West. It is very slick outside as a thin misty icefall glazes ...

P24 Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: One of the anticipated changes coming down the pike were that LED’s would be the next replacement li...

Coal in South Asia

Over at Salon, Joseph Romm has a column today explaining the deep credentials of the current Administration team that will be addressing t...

P23. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen, or so, stories of interest. Time was when the word Audit would strike fear, since it was (and perhaps still is) associated wit...

Saturday Pick Points - but mainly Antarctica

Given that it is a common topic to all four of the climate change web sites that I look at on Saturday evenings, let’s start with the paper ...

From the Little Ice Age to today -rates of climate change

Much of the media coverage of the changing climate relates to the changes in glacier size, and their relative retreat over the past four dec...

More on Lithium production

This started out as a Pick Points and just sort of grew. We were talking in the office today about the new emphasis on lithium batteries (b...