The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities:

"The biggest lesson of all from Katrina is the one that nobody's talking about: It's coming, it's coming to all of us," Tidwell told me. "As I argue in the book, what really wiped out New Orleans was a combination of two things: three feet of relative sea-level rise over the last 100 years followed by a massive storm. "Now (with global warming), we're looking at up to three feet of absolute sea-level rise worldwide, and hurricanes are becoming more intense, much stronger. Category four and five storms are becoming more frequent. Do all of us Americans want to become New Orleanians as well?"

Pipeline crisis 'could halve flow of oil'

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BP denies it manipulated Alaska pipeline data

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Romanian oil rig comes under Iranian fire

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Politics adds to Nigeria’s volatility: Violence centered around oil and who it enriches.

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Nepal gas dealers begin indefinite strike

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