Oil executives grilled over US spill

BP and other companies grilled by the US Senate over the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. ITNNews

Video of massive oil leak in Gulf

Finally got our hands on the shocking first photo and video showing the main source of the massive leak that is causing the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Under pressure from government officials, BP released this single photo and then video showing the leak from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The leak spewed […]

4 problems with oil shutoff device

Bad wiring and a leak in what’s supposed to be a “blowout preventer.” Sealing problems that may have allowed a methane eruption. Even a dead battery, of all things. New disclosures Wednesday at a House hearing revealed a complicated cascade of deepsea equipment failures and procedural problems in the oil rig explosion and massive spill […]

Nuke that slick

Yes! It’s so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union, a major oil exporter, used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities. The first happened in Uzbekistan, on September 30, 1966 with a blast 1.5 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb and at a depth of 1.5 kilometers. KP also notes that subterranean […]

Earth may be too hot for humans by 2300

Climate change could make much of the world too hot for human habitation within just three centuries, research released Tuesday showed. Scientists from Australia’s University of New South Wales and Purdue University in the United States found that rising temperatures in some places could mean humans would be unable to adapt or survive. “It would […]

Monsanto’s seeds of discord

Those who don’t vilify Monsanto tend to rhapsodize about it, or at least about its mission. In a world on pace to spawn 9.1 billion mouths to feed by 2050, the black magic of ag-biotech offers the only apparent prospect of salvation: crops that will be, it is promised, ever more resistant to insects, disease, […]

The Gulf Appears To Be Bleeding

At nine miles out, they began to smell the oil. At 11 miles, they saw a visible sheen on the water. And at mile 87 off the Alabama coast, they reached ground zero of the disaster — what Wathen described as a “red mass of floating goo” as far as the eye can see. “The […]

Earth could get too hot for humans

Scientists at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales calculated the highest possible “wet bulb” temperature that humans can withstand and found that this temperature could be exceeded in future climate scenarios. “Wet bulb” temperature is meant to simulate what is felt by wet skin when it meets moving air, taking into account […]

BP considers smaller dome after ice thwarts containment box

The containment box plan, never before tried at such depths, had been designed to siphon up to 85 percent of the leaking oil. It had taken about two weeks to build the box and three days to cart the containment box 50 miles out and slowly lower it to the well a mile below the […]

Is Gulf oil rig disaster far worse than we’re being told?

Even the word “spill” is incorrect. This isn’t some ship of oil that spilled into the ocean — it’s a “volcano” of oil spewing from the belly of Mother Earth herself. It’s under extremely high pressure, it’s spewing a huge volume of oil directly into the ocean, and there so far seems to be no […]

Will We All Live in Megacities Soon?

Today, on average, 3 out of 4 people living in modern industrialized states are already building their lives within an urban area — a ratio that will jump to more than 5 in 6 by 2050. By contrast, today in the least-developed regions of the world, more than 2 out of 3 people still eke […]

New Report: Gas bubble triggered oil rig blast

The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding, according to interviews with rig workers conducted during BP’s internal investigation. The […]

Iran offers to help contain US oil spill

The National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) has offered to assist the US in efforts to prevent an ecological disaster caused by the spreading oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Following an explosion on a BP-operated oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico last month, at least 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) of crude oil are […]

Scientists decry “assaults” on climate research

More than 250 U.S. scientists on Thursday defended climate change research against “political assaults” and warned that any delay in tackling global warming heightens the risk of a planet-wide catastrophe. The scientists, all members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, targeted critics who have urged postponing any action against climate change because of alleged […]

The Dangerous Myth Of Overpopulation

This shocking report went farther than any UN report has ever gone before in linking climate change with overpopulation. According to the report, the only way to avoid a massive climate disaster is to dramatically increase “family planning” services around the globe and to do whatever it takes to reduce worldwide fertility rates. In a […]

U.S. carbon dioxide emissions fell record 7% last year

Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions fell a record 7% last year, due partly to the economic downturn, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. While emissions have fallen in three of the last four years, 2009’s drop was the largest since the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) began keeping comprehensive data in 1949. USA Today

Rapid response team to see if oil spill has reached Gulf islands

A rapid response team will investigate unconfirmed reports that oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico has reached the Chandeleur Islands off Louisiana’s coast. Coast Guard Petty Officer Erik Swanson says the response team will deploy Thursday to assess the situation. Two satellite images taken Wednesday morning indicated oil has reached the […]

The Gulf oil spill is much worse than originally believed

It’s now likely that the actual amount of the oil spill dwarfs the Coast Guard’s figure of 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day. Independent scientists estimate that the renegade wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf could be spewing up to 25,000 barrels a day. If chokeholds on the riser pipe break down further, […]

U.S. fights to protect shore from massive oil spill

With oil gushing unchecked from a ruptured undersea well off Louisiana, President Barack Obama’s administration heaped pressure on London-based BP, the majority owner of the blown-out well, to do more to stem the flow and contain the spreading slick. Crude oil is pouring out at a rate of up to 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons or […]

Scientists peer into Antarctica’s past to see our future climate

The poles control much of our global climate. Giant ice sheets in Antarctica behave like mirrors, reflecting the sun’s energy and moderating the world’s temperatures. The waxing and waning of these ice sheets contribute to changes in sea level and affect ocean circulation, which regulates our climate by transporting heat around the planet. Despite their […]

Michael Ruppert: Gulf Oil Leak Catastrophic

Leak Rate 25,000 bpd — TERROR NOT RULED OUT Economic Damage in Tens of Billions — Environmental Catastrophe — Bigger then Katrina I watched the press conference live. The question came from a Dow Jones reporter. Present on the stage (among others) were Slazar (Interior), Napolitano (DHS), The Chiarman of BP, Gov. Jindal and a […]

Water-related conflicts set to escalate

A new research has revealed that population growth, urbanisation, increasing pollution, soil erosion and climate variations are all set to escalate water-related conflicts around the world. ccording to the Water and Development Research Group at Aalto University, the situation is particularly difficult in many developing countries, where there are growing concerns over escalating water crises […]

Second drilling rig overturns in Louisiana

The U.S. Coast Guard said Friday it was responding to another oil drilling rig accident near Morgan City, Louisiana. The “mobile inland drilling unit” overturned in the Charenton navigational channel south of U.S. Highway 90 at Morgan City Reuters

The BP Oil Rig Disaster

Under normal circumstances, I would be all over the story of last week’s BP oil rig disaster. By now, you all know that BP suffered an explosion and a fire in the Gulf of Mexico in which lives were lost and an unprecedented leak a mile below the surface of the ocean is occurring. Because […]

Take the politics out of environmentalism

“(‘Global warming’) implies that the biggest problems are related to temperature change,” said Mark Chandler, NASA research scientist. “Though that is the fundamental beginning of the problem … it’s just a tiny part of what’s really happening.” It’s nice to pretend none of this is happening or that it is not our fault, but we […]

Climate debate gets ugly

Climate scientists, used to dealing with skeptics, are under siege like never before, targeted by hate emails brimming with abuse and accusations of fabricating global warming data. Some emails contain thinly veiled death threats. Across the Internet, climate blogs are no less venomous, underscoring the surge in abuse over the past six months triggered by […]

China faces water deficit

China will face a water supply deficit of up to 201 billion cubic meters in the next two decades if the country does not adopt proper water-saving technologies and practices, a report by global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company has found. Given the drastic growth in industrial and municipal water use, China’s total water […]

Time to put population control back on the environmental agenda

Forty years ago last week, 20 million Americans took to the streets to celebrate the first Earth Day. Their agenda was wide-ranging: pollution, smog, endangered species. But one issue — population growth — was seen as the mother of all environmental problems. As Paul Ehrlich, author of “The Population Bomb,” famously remarked: “Whatever your cause, […]

3 oil giants to support climate legislation

U.S. senators unveiling energy and climate change legislation Monday are expected to be joined by three major oil companies — a significant show of support from an industry whose endorsement could be key to winning Republican backing for the proposal. Leaders of Shell Oil Co., BP and ConocoPhillips are expected to support the measure, following […]

Earth Day 2010: How Far We’ve Come, How Far We’ve Yet to Go

March 2010 was the hottest on record worldwide, 1.4 degrees hotter than March 1970. The NOAA’s National Climate Data Center reports that temperatures for the last 40 years have been hotter than at any time in the last 130 years, the extent of their data. The “Climategate” scientists were proven to have performed no data […]

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