Author Archives: David Middleton

About David Middleton

I have been a geoscientist in the evil oil and gas industry for almost 30 years. My favorite hobby is debunking the junk science of the radical environmentalists...Particularly the junk science of anthropogenic global warming.

DOE Green Energy Loans: $11.45 million per job and a rounding error’s worth of averted carbon emissions.

Posted on June 11, 2013

Guest Post by David Middleton The cost of each taxpayer-financed green energy job created since 2009: $26.32 billion divided by 2,298 jobs = $11.45 million per job… Green energy jobs and DOE loans are tallied under programs 1703 and 1705 … Continue reading →

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Posted in Carbon dioxide, Coal, Energy, Government idiocy, natural gas, Politics, solar power | Tagged , , , , , , , | 55 Comments

“Sorry, a TIME Magazine Cover Did Not Predict a Coming Ice Age”… It was just a TIME article.

Posted on June 11, 2013

Guest Post by David Middleton You can always count in TIME magazine’s Bryan Walsh for a good laugh… Well, I suppose that Mr. Walsh is correct that a 1977 TIME magazine cover did not predict “another ice age.” The prediction … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Humor, media | Tagged , , , , , , , | 101 Comments

Maryland’s “Wind Powered Welfare”

Posted on March 12, 2013

Guest Post by David Middleton Going Green Offshore Wind Passes in Senate, Gov. O’Malley’s Signature Next The construction of a wind power farm off the coast of Ocean City could begin as early at 2017 By Jessica Wilde, Capital News … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Politics, wind power | Tagged , , | 96 Comments

Oil Production on Federal Lands Fell Again in 2012 – Climate Progress Blames Geology

Posted on March 12, 2013

Guest post by David Middleton “We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years.” –President Obama, Feb. 12, 2013 Yes, Mr. President, we do produce more oil at home than we have in quite a long time. … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Government idiocy, natural gas, petroleum, Politics | Tagged , , | 41 Comments

A Simple Test of Marcott et al., 2013

Posted on March 11, 2013

Guest Post by David Middleton The Gorebots are all atwitter about this new paper… Science 8 March 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6124 pp. 1198-1201 DOI: 10.1126/science.1228026 A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years Shaun A. … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Marcott et al proxy paper, Michael E. Mann, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 91 Comments

“A [Junk] Scientist’s Misguided Crusade” Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

Posted on March 5, 2013

Guest Post by David Middleton More improper activity from the Million Dollar Bureaucrat… A Scientist’s Misguided Crusade By JOE NOCERA Published: March 4, 2013 Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the State Department released its “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement” for … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Energy, Environment, James Hansen, NASA GISS, petroleum, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , | 47 Comments

Global Warming to Endanger Breakfast by 2080!!!

Posted on February 27, 2013

Guest Post by David Middleton First it was wheat and now it’s coffee. What’s next? Bacon & eggs? This is nothing but alarmist nonsense… Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum in … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, IPCC, James Hansen, Positive effects of CO2, Temperature | Tagged , , , | 61 Comments

SOTU: Energy Fabrications, Falsehoods and Fantasies

Posted on February 13, 2013

Guest Post by David Middleton During his State of the Union Address, President Obama had a few things to say about energy snd I have a few replies. Pres. Obama: We buy… less foreign oil than we have in 20 … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, petroleum, Politics | 125 Comments

How Green Was My Bankruptcy? U. S. Army Edition.

Posted on January 24, 2013

Guest Post by David Middleton Great News! Siemens will generate an 18% return on a project that will have a negative return on investment (-9%)… All at the taxpayers’ expense! At first glance, this looked too good to be true…

Posted in Economy-health, Energy, natural gas, Politics, solar power | Tagged , , , , , , | 78 Comments

Is Yoko Ono smarter than a 4th grader?

Posted on January 23, 2013

Guest post by David Middleton First up: Yoko Ono and friends… ‘Fracking kills’: Yoko Ono joins star-studded cast fighting against hydraulic natural gas drilling in upstate New York John Lennon’s son Sean Lennon, actress Debra Winger, songstress Natalie Merchant and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Education, Energy, Fracking, Humor, natural gas | Tagged , , , , , , , | 105 Comments

“Canadian oil sands pollute nearby lakes. Report is blow to Keystone pipeline.” (Or Not)

Posted on January 11, 2013

The only “blow to the Keystone pipeline” is in the exaggerated reporting of the science… The “report” (Kurek et al., 2013) did find slight elevations (relative to 1950) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in five lakes in the vicinity of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Energy, Environment, petroleum | Tagged , , , , , , , | 109 Comments

Antarctic warming courtesy of Mr. Fix-it

Posted on December 27, 2012

Just a little something he threw together Guest Post by David Middleton First the breath-taking headlines… Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica, New York Times (WUWT commentary) West Antarctic Ice Sheet warming twice earlier estimate, BBC West Antarctica warming much … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Antarctic, Climate Craziness of the Week, Climate FAIL, Global cooling, Global warming, NASA GISS | Tagged , , , , | 104 Comments

More on Mark Hertsgaard’s ridiculous claims – The Goldilocks Crop and the Impending Extinction of Pasta

Posted on December 13, 2012

Guest Post by David Middleton Yesterday, WUWT covered the issue from one angle, and blew Hertsgaard’s riduculous claims out of the water. Today, here’s another independently arrived at conclusion that suggests Hertsgaard’s claims are pure fantasy. It is apparently becoming … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alarmism | Tagged , , , , , , | 78 Comments

A Brief History of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Record-Breaking

Posted on December 7, 2012

Guest Post by David Middleton The World Meteorological Organization (Why do I always think of Team America: World Police whenever “World” and “Organization” appear in the same title?) recently announced that atmospheric greenhouse gases had once again set a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Climate sensitivity, Consensus, Current News, Paleoclimatology, Temperature, United Nations | Tagged , , | 84 Comments

The Atlantic Magazine’s ’5 Charts About Climate Change That Should Have You Very, Very Worried’… Worried about scientific illiteracy.

Posted on November 28, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton I ran into this gem on Real Clear Energy this morning… The article cites terrifying new reports commissioned by the World Bank and the CIA and then launches into a graphical cornucopia of nonsense. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Climate Craziness of the Week, Climate FAIL, Climate_change, Current News, Disaster, Drought, Environment, extreme weather, Fun_stuff, Greenland ice sheet, Humor, media, Paleoclimatology, Tabloid Climatology, Wildfires | Tagged , , , , , , | 88 Comments

Frankenstorm-itis: Five degrees of Separation from Reality and Eleventy Gazillion Joules Under the Sea

Posted on November 3, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton This is a sort of sequel to my most recent guest post.   Any and all sarcasm is purely intentional. I ran across this really bizarre blog post from “The Energy Collective” on Real Clear Energy… … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, extreme weather, Humor, hurricanes, Little Ice Age, Oceans, Paleoclimatology, Ridiculae, Satire, Sea Surface Temperature | 80 Comments

Hurricane Sandy’s ‘Unprecedented’ Storm Surge

Posted on November 1, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton Funny thing… Hurricane Sandy’s unprecedented storm surge was likely surpassed in the New England hurricanes of 1635 and 1638. From 1635 through 1954, New England was hit by at least five hurricanes producing greater than … Continue reading →

Posted in flooding, hurricanes, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 114 Comments

NASA discovers “an Amazon (phytoplankton) rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert” – Must be caused by AGW!

Posted on September 29, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton NASA Discovers Unprecedented Blooms of Ocean Plant Life… “Part of NASA’s mission is pioneering scientific discovery, and this is like finding the Amazon rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert,” said Paula Bontempi, NASA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Arctic, Climate_change, Sea ice | 71 Comments

“North American energy independence by 2020″

Posted on August 30, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently released an outline of his plan to achieve “North American energy independence” by 2020. While the white paper (1) is short on specific details, it does contain quite a … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Government idiocy, petroleum, Politics | 139 Comments

A Different Take on the “Hottest Month on Record.”

Posted on August 24, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton “NCDC Releases July 2012 U.S. Monthly Climate Report: July 2012 Marked the Hottest Month on Record for the Contiguous United States.” The headline was, of course accompanied by nonsense like this… Senior Meteorologist Stu Ostro … Continue reading →

Posted in NCDC, NOAA, records, Temperature | 49 Comments