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25 Oil Tankers Stuck In Gulf, Unable To Offload Due To Harvey Port Closures
25 Oil Tankers Stuck In Gulf, Unable To Offload Due To Harvey Port Closures According to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg, coupled with MarineTraffic real-time tracking, at least 25 tankers carrying almost 17 million barrels of imported crude oil are drifting near Texas and Louisiana ports, unable to offload because of closures from Tropical Storm […]
Houston Warns Bridges And Roads Are “Starting To Fail”
Houston Warns Bridges And Roads Are “Starting To Fail” As Tropical Storm Harvey heads back inland, slamming southwest Texas with another 15-25 inches of rain, Housting officials are reporting that the city’s critical infrastructure is starting to fail under the weight of the floodwaters, and may soon collapse. According to Reuters, roads and bridges in […]
UK Flooding Events and Fake Science
UK Flooding Events and Fake Science Blöschl et al (2017, ref 1) published a paper in Sciencethat purports to show flooding in S England occurs every year but only ever in January and that flooding is disconnected in time from extreme rainfall events via water storage in soils. The changing pattern with time is ascribed […]
Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it’s still raining
Reuters / Richard Carson Harvey is already the worst rainstorm in U.S. history, and it’s still raining The pictures are heartbreaking, the statistics are mind-boggling. And, incredibly, it’s still getting worse. Since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas late Friday night, more than 40 inches of rain have fallen in parts of the Houston metro […]
There Is “Eight Feet Of Water” On Houston Roads, And It’s About To Get Much Worse
There Is “Eight Feet Of Water” On Houston Roads, And It’s About To Get Much Worse Amid desperate efforts to save stranded citizens – police report over 3,000 rescues alone – and the arrival of the so-called ‘cajun navy’to assist, Harvey continues to pummel Texas, paralyzing Houston as the region braces for yet more rain […]
When the Butterfly Flaps Its Wings
When the Butterfly Flaps Its Wings It remains to be seen what the impact will be from Mother Nature putting the nation’s fourth largest city out-of-business. And for how long? It’s possible that Houston will never entirely recover from Hurricane Harvey. The event may exceed the physical damage that Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans. […]
Arctic riches: A most insane discussion
Arctic riches: A most insane discussion As climate change rips away the icy armor of the Arctic, nations surrounding the North Pole and companies eager to exploit the area’s mineral wealth–particularly oil and natural gas–are growing giddy with anticipation. So reports the Associated Press, though the AP is by no means the first to report […]
Gas Station Shortages Expected In Texas As Gulf Coast Premiums Hit Record Highs
Gas Station Shortages Expected In Texas As Gulf Coast Premiums Hit Record Highs According to retail fuel supplier Mansfield Oil, short-term fuel supplies for Houston and San Antonio are significantly impacted by Tropical Storm Harvey. Bloomberg reports that San Antonio and Houston supplies are at code red, while Corpus Christi was downgraded to code orange […]
Hurricane Harvey Will Render Some Parts Of Texas ‘Uninhabitable For An Extended Period Of Time’
Hurricane Harvey Will Render Some Parts Of Texas ‘Uninhabitable For An Extended Period Of Time’ Do you remember what Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans? Well, now we are watching the same thing happen to southeast Texas. On Friday, Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a category 4 hurricane. It is the first hurricane to make […]
Scott Cahill: Collapse Risk At The Oroville Dam Is Still Unacceptably High
Scott Cahill: Collapse Risk At The Oroville Dam Is Still Unacceptably High Bungled repairs and new concerns at the tallest US dam Remember the crisis earlier this year at the Oroville Dam? The overflow from California’s winter of heavy rain threatened to overpower our country’s tallest dam. A cascading failure of the dam’s main gates, […]
Gulf of Mexico DEAD ZONE caused by agricultural runoff from U.S. farms
Gulf of Mexico DEAD ZONE caused by agricultural runoff from U.S. farms (Natural News) Every year, a hypoxic zone appears along the Gulf of Mexico. Otherwise known as a “dead zone,” it is an area of water that contains little to no oxygen. The significantly reduced levels essentially makes the body of water a biological […]
Quantifying the causes of the recent decrease in US CO2 emissions
Quantifying the causes of the recent decrease in US CO2 emissions Between 2007 and 2015 total annual US CO2 emissions decreased by 740 million tons (12%). An updated analysis shows that 35% of this decrease was caused by natural gas replacing coal in electricity generation, 30% by lower fuel consumption in the transportation sector, 28% […]
European Floods and Fake Science
European Floods and Fake Science I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago targeting the BBC for biased reporting on energy and climate issues. It was never published because in writing it I realised that the the problem did not necessarily lie with the BBC but with the climate science fraternity. Another alarmist article […]
NASA Unveils Plan To Stop Yellowstone “Supervolcano” Eruption, There’s Just One Catch
NASA Unveils Plan To Stop Yellowstone “Supervolcano” Eruption, There’s Just One Catch A NASA plan to stop the Yellowstone supervolcano from erupting, could actually cause it to blow… triggering a nuclear winter that would wipe out humanity. As we have detailed recently, government officials have been closely monitoring the activity in the Yellowstone caldera. However, […]
The Black Plague is Back Showing Up in Arizona
The Black Plague is Back Showing Up in Arizona This has caused a real flood of emails since it has started right on target. Our model of plagues we wrote : “We certainly seem due for a pandemic, which likely will occur between 2017 and 2020 thanks to the abuse of antibiotics.” We wrote that January 27th, 2016. […]
