Although it appears as if Climate Change has finally appeared on the political agenda there is still much to be done. Governments continue to send out contradictory signals. Everytime you hear of  new transport corridors being constructed, of the need to push for more economic growth, of the willingness to continue to invest in housing that requires massive amounts of heating and cooling and statements about needing to grow our population you wonder how much is really understood about the factors that drive climate change.

It is for this reason that we will be keeping the website active. Our focus will be to continue to post articles that may be of interest or links to websites that you may like to have a look at.

With this in mind this article contains two files recommended by one of our members one deals with an ecological response to economic growth, the other with energy demands.

THE NEED FOR A NEW, BIOPHYSICAL-BASED PARADIGM IN ECONOMICS FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE AGE OF OIL
Charles A. S. Hall - State University of New York
537 Kb PDF document

Assessing the date of the global oil peak: The need to use 2P reserves
R.W. Bentley - Department of Cybernetics, The University of Reading, UK
S.A. Mannanb & S.J. Wheeler - Department of Engineering, The University of Reading, UK
303 Kb PDF document
 

Secondly the following links to Deutsche Welle radio are worth pursuing.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,3072,00.html
and
http://www.dw3d.de/dw/0,2142,11798,00.html  
(The Germans are well ahead of us when it comes to moving towards a zero carbon future;  their living planet programmes are well worth book marking for future reference.)

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