BP warns of ‘top kill’ failure; ‘junk shot’ next option

British Petroleum warned that its latest attempt to stop the Gulf oil leak is not guaranteed to work. The top kill method consists of mud and cement being forced don the broken well in an effort to stop the flow of oil. It has a 60- to 70-percent chance of working, as the method has […]

SPILL CAM, oil release gets darker

In case you haven’t seen the LIVE SPILL CAM in a while, it’s now much darker. This means a higher oil / gas ratio. We can’t stop the spill, but we can watch it on a live webcam. Direct from BP

Depopulate or perish

Launching himself as a green campaigner, actor Jeremy Irons has revealed plans to make a documentary about sustainability and waste disposal, likening himself to controversial filmmaker Michael Moore, though “not as silly”. The increasing global population would put an intolerable strain on the world’s resources, he says, and the gulf between developing countries and Westerners […]

Study links climate with mass extinction

A Danish-led international team of scientists has linked climate change with the mass extinction of mammals during the late quaternary era 50,000 years ago. “Between 50,000 and 3,000 years before present 65 percent of mammal species weighing over (97 pounds) went extinct, together with a lower proportion of small mammals,” said University of Copenhagen researcher […]

Oil leaking into the Gulf could sink ships

The mysteries that lie beneath the ocean have always been part of the allure of the sea. Think of Texas A&M – Galveston marine biologist Dr. Gil Rowe as an undersea detective. He is on the case of a haunting new tale. “It is just amazing to me that they haven’t been able to get […]

Drought leaves 8 million people short of food

The seeds of rice, tobacco and corn that she planted this spring have failed to germinate because of the drought, she said. In the past, she earned 5,000 yuan each year by selling corn, tobacco and tea. This would be enough to buy rice to feed the family until September. “But the crops have failed, […]

BP’s Oil Blog

The mainstream media is also reporting that so-called exerts are saying the amount of oil being released is far more than the 5,000 barrels thought to be leaking in the ocean on a daily basis by BP. Experts? How is anyone an expert in oil leaking from the ocean floor at about a mile below […]

Feds demand that BP provide confidential Gulf oil spill data

BP has yet to comply with federal requests to produce confidential internal data regarding the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Nor is it providing direct answers to an order that it use another, less toxic dispersant to mitigate the oil. In a press conference with reporters Friday, however, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles downplayed […]

SPILL CAM

We can’t stop the spill, but we can watch it on a live webcam. Direct from BP

On ‘Global Warming,’ Can There Really Be Two Sides To the Story?

Hey Mainstream Media, before you dismiss legitimate scientists who disagree with your global warming meme as “deniers,” how about listening to an actual, open-minded scientist who agrees with you? One of the most electrifying moments of the Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Climate Change Conference was when Professor Scott Denning of Colorado State University asked to […]

BP’s “top kill” method to stanch the spill could also break it wide open.

BP is preparing to launch a procedure as early as Sunday to clog the flow of oil and gas from the month-old Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But the proposed “top kill” method is untested at the 5,000-foot depth of the spill, and could easily join the growing list of fixes thwarted […]

BP says it is capturing 5,000 barrels of oil a day from gulf spil

BP said Thursday that it is now capturing 5,000 barrels a day of crude oil and 15 million cubic feet of natural gas from a leaking pipe at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the first official admission that earlier estimates of the amount of oil spilling into sea were too small. The amount […]

How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico?

Nobody knows for certain how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since last month’s oil rig explosion. What we do have are estimates — from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, from outside experts, from British Petroleum — of how fast crude is flowing out of two remaining leaks (a third was […]

Global Cooling Is Coming and Beware the Big Chill

Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, Dr. Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University and author of more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon. “Rather than global warming at a rate of 1 F per […]

OK, So Now We Know The New Gulf Oil “Fix” Isn’t Doing Jack

So this weekend, BP successfully inserted a catheter into the leak at the Deepwater Horizon, marking the first time there’s been any progress in stemming the disaster. So how much of a success is this? Well, according to a BP exec quoted by Platts, the tube is collecting mover then 1,000 b/d, which probably means […]

Gulf spill forecast, With light winds, current could push plume westward

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials say ocean models show a west to southwest current flow in the vicinity of the source of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Under those currents, and with light winds expected to be variable over the next few days, the oil plume from the source of the leak at […]

Were Oil Rig Warning Signs Ignored?

There’s plenty of blame to go around. The federal agency in charge of oil rig inspections – the Minerals Management Service – reportedly fell short of its own policy of holding at least one inspection a month. Monday, a top official there announced he’ll retire ahead of schedule – at the end of the month. […]

Tar sands oil extraction spreading rapidly, report warns

The successful development of Canada’s tar sands has triggered a rush by Shell and other oil companies to set up similar operations in Russia, Congo and even Madagascar, a new report reveals. Soaring crude prices and an growing shortage of drilling sites have encouraged the energy industry to look at a series of “unconventional” hydrocarbon […]

BP Capturing 1,000 Barrels a Day From Gulf Oil Leak

The well is leaking at an estimated rate of 5,000 barrels day, according to the official estimate by BP, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The estimate was challenged May 14 by U.S. Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, citing analysis by independent researchers that it may be more than […]

Global Warming: A localized pause and then the end of our civilization

The majority of the American population now thinks that global warming probably doesn’t exist. Part of that is the huge amount of money which has been spent on propaganda, but part of it is that the only continent which is not experiencing increased temperatures right now–is North America. If you want to be a climate […]

Tube Catches ‘Some’ Oil From Leak

Engineers successfully inserted a tube into the damaged riser pipe from which some of the oil is spewing, capturing “some amounts of oil and gas” before the tube was dislodged, the announcement said. The tube was inspected and reinserted, BP said. “While not collecting all of the leaking oil, this tool is an important step […]

Scientists Find Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf

“There’s a shocking amount of oil in the deep water, relative to what you see in the surface water,” said Samantha Joye, a researcher at the University of Georgia who is involved in one of the first scientific missions to gather details about what is happening in the gulf. “There’s a tremendous amount of oil […]

Gulf Oil Leaks Could Gush for Years

Yesterday a smaller dome was laid on the seafloor near the faulty well, and officials will attempt to install the structure later this week. But such recovery operations have never been done before in the extreme deep-sea environment around the wellhead, noted Matthew Simmons, retired chair of the energy-industry investment banking firm Simmons & Company […]

BP confident latest try to capture oil will still work

BP was confident Saturday its latest attempt to capture much of the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico will succeed even as the company disclosed yet another setback in their experiments to curb one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters. BP believes it can hook up its mile-long tube to suck oil from a […]

Latest Effort to Stop Gulf Oil Leak Hits a Snag

At first, BP tried to stop the oil rushing into the Gulf of Mexico by flipping a blowout preventer switch. A week ago, they attempted to capture the leak with a 100-ton box. Now they’ve hit a snag as they try to guide a mile-long tube into the gusher to siphon the oil. Interior Secretary […]

Latest Effort to Contain Gulf Oil Spill Under Way

Engineers from oil giant BP are making their latest effort to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Workers were trying Saturday to plug a leaking underwater pipe with a tube that could pump oil to a ship above. BP has failed at previous efforts to contain the well gushing hundreds of […]

How Much Oil Is Really Spilling Out?

Some experts disagree with NOAA’s estimate that only 210,000 gallons of oil are spilling out in the gulf of Mexico. They say much more is gushing out and argue it wouldn’t take much to determine the actual figure. (May 14)

UN climate panel chief defends research body

The head of the United Nations’ climate change panel defended the body Friday before an academic council charged with reviewing its research methods after a string of challenges to its findings. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), admitted an error was made in warning that Himalayan glaciers could melt by […]

Gulf oil spill Developments

Here are the key developments Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Liability: Transocean Ltd., the offshore contractor based in Switzerland that owned the Deepwater Horizon rig, filed a petition in a federal court in Houston, seeking to limit the company’s liability from the oil spill to less than $27 million. The move will […]

Maurice Strong Interview (BBC, 1972)

Today, Maurice Strong sits atop the global environmental movement headed by the United Nations and its interlocking NGO’s and tax-exempt foundations. Strong is considered to be the person behind the globalization of the environmental movement, and was the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in 1972, in Stockholm, Sweden. In […]

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