Russ McBee

I'll bet Dick Cheney's head is about to explode: Iraq and China are close to re-signing a $1.2 billion oil deal that was called off after the 2003 U.S. invasion, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said Thursday. [...] Saddam Hussein's government signed a deal with the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. to develop the billion-barrel ...

This is incredible: a study conducted by NOAA has concluded that the practice of ''flaring'' natural gas (burning it at the outlet of an oil well) wastes an amount of gas worth $40 billion per year, resulting in an unnecessary annual injection of 400 million tons of extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That equals half the current CO2 ...

Three quick notes: 1) General Petraeus has the gall to compare the US occupation of Iraq to the British struggle against the IRA. He said that ''fighting the insurgency is a 'long term endeavour' which could take decades.'' He then said, Northern Ireland, I think, taught you that very well. My counterparts in your [British] forces ...

An article in Friday's New York Times by Matthew Wald bears the provocative title, ''Wind Farms May Not Lower Air Pollution, Study Suggests.'' This is, of course, completely ridiculous. The article is about a report by the National Academy of Sciences on the subject, but doesn't provide a link to the report itself (the ...