Category: International Relations

The head of one of the world’s biggest oil companies has admitted that the threat of climate change makes him “really very worried for the planet“. In an interview in today’s Guardian Life section, Ron Oxburgh, chairman of Shell, says we urgently need to capture emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, which scientists think…

Ingrid is still tirelessly working on the Sudan story – I read her news every day, if I only I blogged about it a bit more. But for more information please go there –

For six consecutive years, ChevronTexaco has had good news for anyone worried that the world is running out of oil: the company has found more oil and natural gas than it has produced. Over that time, ChevronTexaco’s proven oil and gas reserves have risen 14 percent, more than one billion barrels.

Yet more fuel into this fire that has been on slowburn on this blog over the last few weeks. George Monbiot, yes I know some of you hate him, with his views on the likely scenarios that may meet us once the oil runs out. I think Frank will enjoy this…and he also mentions issues…

The director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jeffrey D. Sachs, with some criticism of the Bush Administration. The undoing of U.S. foreign policy is captured in the budget numbers. Long gone are the Marshall Plan times, when America dedicated several percent of its gross domestic product to European reconstruction. The United States will…

Coincidentally, about the time a small discussion between myself Frank and Paul, Kevin Drum has posted a lengthy analysis of the demand/supply issue with regard to oil. I think I will quote the thing in full. The crucial point in relation to the discussion we were having: If we’re lucky, of course, there won’t be…

Fred Kaplan wrote an article I almost missed on how North Korea succeeded in getting nuclear weapons, and how the Bush administration let them. But the existence of the weapons is as yet unproven – though plutonium is known to exist. Kaplan concludes by blaming Bush: Last January, a (genuinely) private delegation–which included Jack Pritchard…

Just two things I was thinking about today… If the UKIP do well, what questions does it raise about whether the UK will stay in the EU or not? Kilroy-Silk was on Newsnight last night with John Redwood, Silk was articulate while also quoting polls saying the support for the UKIP is growing substantially. If…

The situation in Sudan needs urgent attention, as Ingrid has been pointing out for weeks now. Time is wasting, action surely needs to be taken now. Should we let Rwanda happen again, the ethnic cleansing may have largely ceased, but starvation still threatens upwards of 350,000 people, with perhaps upto 500,000 people in danger. The…

Ingrid has been doing some sterling work on the problems in the Sudan. As Glenn Reynolds would say, keep scrolling.