OGPSS - Pipelines through Canada

If one looks at the countries that are major importers of oil into the United States, Canada currently easily tops the list exporting 2.085...

Another quake at Katla, and some thoughts on Geothermal in Iceland

There are times when I think that the volcanic activity under Myrdalsjokull is coming to an end, then activity flares again, and a threat ag...

OGPSS - Can Alaskan coal be considered a reserve?

When I originally started to write about the Alaskan fuel sources I had intended to write only about the oil and gas reserves in the state, ...

The Temperature fall and the Chickadee

Yesterday (Monday) I was reading the Boston Globe and came across an article by David Abel about a recent report by the Audubon Society on...

Temperatures in the Flat Middle of the USA

Last week I noted the curious drop in temperature along the Eastern Seaboard in the period from around 1950 to 1965. The question then ari...

A gentle cough for CBS and the National Petroleum Council

I was flipping through the news channels last night and came in on the tail end of a CBS story about billions of barrels of oil in Texas. H...

OGPSS - pipelines from the North

Art Berman commented, in regard to my last post on the oil and gas reserves offshore Alaska, that at one time companies looked for an esti...

The Four degree temperature drop along the Atlantic Seaboard

During the time that I was acquiring the data for the different USHCN stations around the country (the list for which is down on the right-h...

OGPSS - reaching the oil offshore Alaska

I have tried in the last two OGPSS posts to show some of the problems that are developing in the flow of oil from Alaska to the rest of the ...