St. Maarten Private Eye

A rise of two degrees centigrade in global temperatures – the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic climate change which will expose millions to drought, hunger and flooding – is now "very unlikely" to be avoided, the world's leading climate scientists said yesterday.

Read More - 'Too late to avoid global warming,' say scientists. - 19th September 2007

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When "peak oil" theory was first widely publicized in such path-breaking books as Kenneth Deffeyes' Hubbert's Peak (2001), Richard Heinberg's The Party's Over (2002), David Goodstein's Out of Gas (2004), and Paul Roberts' The End of Oil (2004), [1] energy-industry officials and their government associates largely ridiculed the notion. An imminent peak - and subsequent decline - in global petroleum output was derided as crackpot science with little geological foundation. "Based on [our] analysis," the US Department of Energy confidently asserted in 2004, "[we] would expect conventional oil to peak closer to the middle than to the beginning of the 21st century."

Recently, however, a spate of high-level government and industry reports have begun to suggest that the original peak-oil theorists were far closer to the grim reality of global oil availability than industry analysts were willing to admit. Industry optimism regarding long-term energy-supply prospects, these official reports indicate, has now given way to a deep-seated pessimism, even in the biggest of Big Oil corporate headquarters.

Read More - A new energy pessimism emerges - 18th August 2007

Local news.......

Today Editorial - Coping with rising oil prices - 19th September 2007

Rising energy costs - 19th September 2007

Roy Moron's solution................

GEBE need $30 million in extra generating capacity - 22nd May 2007

People may well say that investing in alternative energy is more expensive, but the truth is, you get what you pay for. In this case, a F**ked up world for your children.

Welcome to the future.

Caribdude

Other news, irrelevant to St Maarten's short sighted and head up their a** leaders.

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