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- Biden to Kill 200,000 More Jobs Because… Climate Change Wed, 10 Feb 21, 9:00amGuest “MAVA (Made America Venezuela Already)” by David Middleton How Many US GOM Jobs Could Go Under Biden?by Andreas Exarheas|Rigzone Staff|Tuesday, February 09, 2021 If U.S. President Joe Biden’s...
- 2020 Hurricane Season Curtailed Over 40 Million bbl of GOM Oil Production Thu, 19 Nov 20, 1:00pmGuest “I hate hurricanes” by David Middleton 2008 was just about the worst year in recorded history. We had the financial collapse, the start of the “Great Recession,” the coronation of Barrack Hussein...
- Internet Science Made Stupid: “Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico ‘Supervolcano’ About To Erupt” Wed, 15 May 19, 11:00pmGuest geological storytelling by David Middleton In my recent post, How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor, we discussed the rifting that enabled the opening of the Gulf of Mexico...
- How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor Thu, 9 May 19, 3:00amGuest geological storytelling by David Middleton You see the story yet? It’s all pretty much here.In a language you can’t yet understand, but it’s here.A tale of upheaval and battles won and lost.Gothic...
- Conservationists in Florida are making the ultimate effort to protect manatees from tourism Wed, 8 May 19, 3:30amCaptain Ross Files sees ripples on the surface of the water down a side canal and instructs Captain Steve Browning to turn in that direction. Files sprints up a ladder to sit on top of the boat, his bare feet and legs dangling,...
- Energy Returned On Energy Invested: Real(ish)Things That Don’t Matter, Part Trois Thu, 25 Apr 19, 10:00amFeatured Image Guest Seinfeld routine by David Middleton In Part One of this series, we looked at Peak Oil and its irrelevance to energy production and also discussed the relevance of Seinfeld...
- Giant manta ray nursery discovered in Gulf of Mexico Sat, 23 Jun 18, 3:00amResearchers have identified the first recognized giant manta ray nursery in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico, about 70 miles offshore from Galveston, Texas...
- Load up on Tabasco while you can - because the island it comes from is being swallowed by the sea Thu, 5 Apr 18, 1:31amIf your idea of the perfect Bloody Mary involves a dash of Tabasco, better stock up while you can. Over one hundred miles west of New Orleans, Avery Island, the birthplace of Tabasco sauce, is disappearing as its land slowly...
- Load up on Tabasco while you can because the island it comes from is being swallowed by the sea Thu, 5 Apr 18, 1:31amIf your idea of the perfect Bloody Mary involves a dash of Tabasco, better stock up while you can. Over one hundred miles west of New Orleans, Avery Island, the birthplace of Tabasco sauce, is disappearing as its land slowly...
- A Tale of Two Lease Sales Thu, 26 Oct 17, 1:56amOr, more accurately, two tales about the same lease sale… Guest rant by David Middleton Earlier this year, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced that all available leases in the Gulf of Mexico would be offered in...
- VIDEO: 60,000-year-old preserved underwater forest discovered in the Gulf of Mexico Thu, 28 Sep 17, 4:40amWhen Hurricane Ivan formed in 2004, it did more than devastate regions of the Caribbean and the United States’ coast. According to the new documentary “The Underwater Forest,” it also unearthed a fossilized forest of...
- Gulf of Mexicos dead zone in 2017 could be the largest on record Tue, 27 Jun 17, 10:53pmWhen humans abuse the environment and dump nitrate-and phosphorous-heavy pollutants into rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, oxygen-deprived “dead zones” form...
- New Orleans’ $14.5 billion rebuilt levees won’t fight a Category 5 hurricane Wed, 26 Aug 15, 1:30amAn often-repeated truth about Hurricane Katrina is that the events of August 29 2005, were not a natural disaster, they were a man made one caused by the failure of the levee systems that had been designed to protect the...
- New Orleans $14.5 billion rebuilt levees won’t fight a Category 5 hurricane Wed, 26 Aug 15, 1:30amAn often-repeated truth about Hurricane Katrina is that the events of August 29 2005, were not a natural disaster, they were a man made one caused by the failure of the levee systems that had been designed to protect the...
- Five years later: Deepwater Horizon disaster leaves oil and dispersants lingering in the Gulf Tue, 21 Apr 15, 11:30pmAs we mark the fifth anniversary of the explosion that rocked the Deepwater Horizon rig, claiming 11 lives and sparking a 87 day-long, 200 million gallon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, studies continue to reveal the devastating...