Natural petroleum seeps release equivalent of eight to 80 Exxon Valdez oil spills « Watts Up With That?

A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is the first to quantify the amount of oil residue in seafloor sediments that result from natural petroleum seeps off Santa Barbara, California.

The new study shows the oil content of sediments is highest closest to the seeps and tails off with distance, creating an oil fallout shadow. It estimates the amount of oil in the sediments down current from the seeps to be the equivalent of approximately 8-80 Exxon Valdez oil spills.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Cap-and-trade [swindle]: Imperialism of the populous states?

We’ve reviewed Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade policies from a number of angles, but Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana has a unique analysis that bears consideration. He sees cap-and-trade not just as an overall tax burden on the energy consumer, although he certainly agrees that it is, nor as a penalty for fossil-fuel producers, which Daniels also sees. Daniels suggests that the real reason for cap-and-trade is for liberal, coastal states to suck tax dollars out of the Rust Belt in a case of interstate imperialism...

A Romantic Candlelit . . . Surgery? - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

OK, so that's a bit of an exaggeration. But Mayor Bloomberg wants carbon cuts from the city's hospitals...