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The weather around the world this summer is likely to convince a lot of people that climate change is serious.  That it is changing the cond...

When I heard last week that Bill Allen had died, I immediately wanted to write a bit of a remembrance.  I sat through three different politi...

  Like lots of my posts, I have one key points to make, but it seems like I need to give some background to this quote.   Cold Mountain Path...

 When you get a chance, tie up one of your oil fanatic Republican family members and/or friends and make them watch this.  It covers most of...

[I live in Alaska.  I've passed through West Virginia long ago.  I have no inside knowledge about Manchin.  Just general thoughts about ...

Let's start off with some good news.  If you're only going to link to one of these articles, I recommend this one.   There are bette...

The decline of Alaska's oil wealth has been predicted for a long time. It's why the Alaska Permanent Fund was established.  Knowing ...

Steve Donziger is a name you should know.  "Donziger won a historic $9.5 billion pollution judgment against Chevron on behalf of Indi...

The world is complicated and humans are constantly tracking down the linkages between different factors.  The first seems much easier to und...

Over ten years ago I came across something called the Charter for the Development of the Alaska North Slope.  This post tells that story.  I...

This was originally posted on February 2, 2009.  It's been read a few times in the last day or two by people whose computers leave the f...

Sorry, between being busy and doing homework and my iPad’s bad relations with Blogger, this will just be a few pictures.  We went to the Ro...