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Oct 31, 2026
ShirvanHOST
And there is a reason to invest, not just because it would change the world map, but because of the wealth underneath.
ShirvanHOST
An assessment by the US Geological Survey estimates that about 22% of the world's undiscovered crude oil and natural gas sits in the Arctic Circle.
ShirvanHOST
climate change is making those assets more accessible.
ShirvanHOST
However, a large segment of the Arctic, including the North Pole, currently lies beyond the exclusive economic zone of the coastal nations.
Scott ManleyHOST
The McDonnell factory was on the north side of the field, near the approach end of runway 24.
Scott ManleyHOST
This is a USGS image of the field from 1968 and showing the layout.
Scott ManleyHOST
These days, the airport has changed quite a bit to accommodate more airliners.
Scott ManleyHOST
That small parallel runway got widened and extended to accommodate jets.
MichaelHOST
We've seen repeated reports of significant earthquakes, volcanic activity and extraordinary flooding.
MichaelHOST
Now, the United States Geological Survey has long explained that part of the apparent increase in earthquakes comes from improvements in our ability to detect and report them.
MichaelHOST
And over a century, that's an entirely reasonable explanation.
MichaelHOST
But it doesn't automatically answer a different question.
Andrea ShaenanigansHOST
Yeah.
Andrea ShaenanigansHOST
In 1922, the United States Geological Survey sent a team into the mountains to solve the mystery once and for all.
Andrea ShaenanigansHOST
Their official conclusion? Basically, they said the lights were just an optical illusion, nothing more than car headlights and train lights down in the valley getting bent and magnified by shifting mountain air.
Andrea ShaenanigansHOST
But there's one big problem with that explanation.
Yasin AhmedHOST
So if we look at what starts under the ground, we look at the Congo, which mined about 74% of the world's cobalt in 2025.
Yasin AhmedHOST
And according to the U.S. Geological Survey, cobalt goes into batteries like in EVs and phones.
Yasin AhmedHOST
So if you're holding a phone right now, there's a good chance that a piece of Africa is in your hand.
Yasin AhmedHOST
Then there's obviously the what grows on top of it, which we'll be getting later into the conversation.
Todd RoyalHOST
There's more natural gas swimming all over the world than people know what to do with, particularly the United States, New Mexico, Louisiana.
Todd RoyalHOST
I mean, just go looking up the U.S. Geological Survey does great work on this.
Todd RoyalHOST
We have more oil than we know what
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Amanda StaudtGUEST
Some of them are networks that are supported by the federal government.
Amanda StaudtGUEST
So multiple different agencies have observation stations or satellite agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, or NASA, PA, or the U.S. Geological Survey as well, USGS.
Amanda StaudtGUEST
There are states that have mesonets or their own observing systems.
Amanda StaudtGUEST
There are universities that run observing systems.
Andy SchectmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, why would they do that? By the way, real quick, everyone knows that silver was classified a critical mineral.
Andy SchectmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The U.S. Geological Survey deal in 2025, national security, we can import it without congressional approval.
Andy SchectmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But what people don't focus enough on is that on March 20th, 2025, Trump signed Executive Order 14241. immediate measure to increase America's mineral production.
Andy SchectmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And Section 2A explicitly names gold, along with uranium, copper, and potash as materials covered by the order, national security.
MichaelHOST
But this is where we need to distinguish observation from interpretation.
MichaelHOST
The United States Geological Survey explains that earthquake activity naturally fluctuates.
MichaelHOST
The number of earthquakes being reported has increased, partly because we have more instruments, better communications and faster ways of sharing information.
MichaelHOST
That doesn't mean earthquakes aren't happening.
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In Alaska, it can exceed thirty degrees in parts of the interior, and it changes as you move across the state, sometimes significantly over relatively short distances.
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This is a documented geophysical fact measured and mapped by the United States Geological Survey, published in declination charts that pilots and navigators and surveyors consult as a matter of routine.
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It is not mysterious.
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It is the simple consequence of geometry.
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