A report released this week by the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a whistleblower protection organization based in Washington D.C., demonstrates the politicization of climate science.
According to GAP, political policies and practices “have increasingly restricted the flow of scientific information emerging from publicly-funded climate change research.
This has negatively affected the media’s ability to report objectively on [...]

Ok so there is a raging peak oil debate out there. The Peak oil pundits say we are in real trouble, the oil industry say that there is enough oil for the meantime not to worry.
But now the US Government Accountability Office has waded into the controversy. It has undertaken a Peak Oil study (pdf) [...]

The stand-off between Britain and Iran is not the only tension building in the Gulf this week.
Tensions are also building between the US and Saudi Arabia, reflecting growing differences between the two long-time allies as the Saudis take a greater leadership role in the region.

The increasingly tense standoff between Iran and the UK over the fate of 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran has helped drive crude oil prices to a six-month high.
Traders sent the price of crude oil up by 3 percent, to $66.03 a barrel in New York yesterday, after Iran put off [...]

A pair of recent articles from UPI correspondent Ben Lando, here and here, flesh out the details as to the importance of Iraq’s oil unions and their long and storied past.
The unions, which have been cut out of the process of drafting the oil law (while the US and British governments, the International Monetary Fund, [...]