“Exploration companies believe the recent rapid ice melt in the Arctic may make it easier to get [oil] reserves out of the region.”
BBC news comment on report that US Geological Survey estimates there are 90 bn barrels of “undiscovered” oil in the Arctic, and even more gas.
Oh goody. So no need to sell the oil [...]
Archive for July, 2008
now that’s what I call feedback
July 24, 2008competition, competition
July 23, 2008Just ordered the next mega-compilation from the UN Millenium Project, the 2008 State of the Future Report. I have been through the last edition. Now all I have to do is digest the latest – now running to 6,300 pages on the accompanying CD – and insert the result into the draft of the Rough [...]
Climate confusion
July 21, 2008A longer post to try out something I want to include in the climate/energy chapter of the book.
It is not a new point, but from my pondering over these last weeks there’s a good case that the current state of the energy supply problem takes the demands of thinking about the future to a new [...]
Tag hazard
July 17, 2008(entirely trivial post…)
Was just posting this interesting vision of future trends to del.icio.us, and choosing appropriate tags
so now it appears on my del.icio.us page as “future green poverty”
not what I meant at all, but I guess it is one of the options
Science’s centre of gravity
July 12, 2008I am not in the trend spotting game here, but cannot resist highlighting an item in this week’s Science
U.S. GRADUATE TRAINING: Top Ph.D. Feeder Schools Are Now Chinese
Jeffrey Mervis
Science 11 July 2008: 185.
A new study has found that the most likely undergraduate alma mater for those who earned a Ph.D. in 2006 from a U.S. [...]
