References and Readings accompanying  Statement 
by Suzanne Sayer
July 20, 2007
Wind Power Task Force Panel on Project Perspectives


ASPO Newsletter, weekly or more frequent update from the Association for the Study of Peak Oil – US.  Headquartered in Colorado (see Udall and Andrews below)

Broecker, W. S., 2004,   Future Global Warming Scenarios, Science, Vol 304, Issue 5669, p. 388.

Climate Change Research Center, 1998, New England’s Changing Climate, Weather and Air Quality. 

Harte, John, Annette Ostling, Jessica L. Green, and Ann Kinzig, 2004, Biodiversity conservation:  Climate change and extinction risk Nature 430.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2007) Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group I, Fourth Assessment Report. United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva. http://www.ipcc.ch/ 

Byron W. King, 2006, 2006 Boston ASPO: Global Warming, Whiskey and Gunpowder, Newsletter from Agora Financial  (Entertaining, connecting Global Warming to Peak Oil – from an investment and geologic viewpoint – not too technical)
Charles Komanoff, 2006, Whither Wind - A journey through the heated debate over wind power, Orion Magazine.  (Highly recommended reading)
Monbiot, George, 2007, Heat.  South End Press ( Recommended reading for all concerned with global climate change, but tedious)
Pounds, J. A., et al, 2006, Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming, Nature 439, 161-167  
Randers, J., 2007, Synopsis of Lecture in Energy Bulletin, Reviewing the 2006 Templeton Lecture by Jorgen Randers, coauthor of the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, which has been updated and republished in 2007.

Rial, J. A, R.A Pielke, Sr, M. Beniston, M. Slaussen, J. Canadell, P. Cox, H. Held, N. De Noblet-Ducoudre, R. Prinn, J.F. Reynolds, and J.D. Salas, 2004, Nonlinearities, Feedbacks and Critical Thresholds within the Earth’s Climate System, in Climatic Change, Vol. 65, p. 11-38.

Schwartz, P and D. Randall, 2003, An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security.  (This report was sponsored by the Pentagon and is an unrealistic scenario written by risk management people not scientists.)

Matthew R. Simmons, 2005, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken.  (Excellent, technical reasons for Peak Oil – perhaps its difficult for non-petroleum geologists)
Thomas, C. D., et al, 2004, Extinction risk from climate change, Nature, Vol. 427, p.145-148.
Udall, Randy, and Steve Andrews, Joy Ride 2, Community Office for Resource Efficiency, Aspen Colorado  (Easy reading on Peak Oil, a few outdated Figures and Tables – not too sure the name of the article is correct)

Udall, Randy and Steve Andrews, Methane Madness, Community Office for Resource Efficiency, Aspen Colorado  (Easy reading on Peak Methane, a few outdated Figures and Tables)

Understanding the Peak Oil Theory, 2005, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce House of Representatives, Serial No. 109-41, Committee chaired by Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland, and Tom Udall, NM  (Extensive hearing with much testimony some of it contradictory- buried by bureaucrats)

UCS (2007) Union of Concerned Scientists – Climate Change in the US Northeast. A Report of the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment. http://northeastclimateimpacts.org/ 

Wake, Cameron,  E. Burakowski, and L. Goss (2006) Winter Recreation and Climate Variability in New Hampshire: 1984-2006. Clean Air – Cool Planet Report. http://www.carboncoalition.org/education/winter.php 

Wake, Cameron, and A. Markham (2005) Indicators of Climate Change in the Northeast. Clean Air – Cool Planet Report. 
http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/information/pdf/indicators.pdf 

Wake C, Frumhoff P, McCarthy J, Melillo J, Moser S, Wuebbles D (Eds) Northeast Climate Impact Assessment. Special Issue, Adaptation and Mitigation of Global Change (final review) 

Ward, P. D., J.W., Haggart, E.S. Carter, D. Wilbur, H.W. Tipper, and T. Evans (2001) Sudden productivity collapse associated with the Triassic-Jurassic boundary mass extinction.  Science 208 (4448) p. 1095-1108.

Ward, P, 2007, Under a Green Sky, Smithsonian.  (not recommended reading – too many errors, and mixes conjecture and fact freely)