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.

More “Fracking” Nonsense About Earthquakes

Posted on August 10, 2012

Are the science journalists ignorant of science? Or are they intentionally misleading the public? Earthquakes triggered by fluids injected deep underground, such as during the controversial practice of fracking, may be more common than previously thought, a new study suggests. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Alarmism, Earth, Earthquakes, Energy, Fracking, natural gas | 101 Comments

In other news…”Ten Reasons Why Fracking is (not) Doomed”

Posted on July 31, 2012

Guest Post by David Middleton I ran across a really funny story on Real Clear Energy last Friday… Once you get past all of the nonsense about fracking polluting groundwater and global warming hysteria, the article really gets “interesting.”

Posted in Energy, Fracking, natural gas, solar power, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , | 128 Comments

How Green Was My Bankruptcy? “Roadmap for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands” Edition

Posted on July 26, 2012

The agency has already approved 17 large-scale solar energy projects on public lands that are expected to produce nearly 6,000 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 1.8 million homes. The department estimated the resource potential of the newly identified … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, natural gas, Politics, solar power | Tagged , , , | 98 Comments

How Green Was My Bankruptcy?

Posted on May 4, 2012

Guest Post by David Middleton My apologies to the memories of the late Richard Llewellyn and late John Ford; but I just had to borrow their title for this post. This paragraph from a 2010 Telegraph article really says it … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Politics, solar power | Tagged , , , , , , , | 268 Comments

More Glacial Junk Science Journalism

Posted on April 5, 2012

[Note: this post (and a few others) was lost in WordPress, and I had no notification of its existence. While a bit dated, it is still valid - note to guest authors with WUWT WordPress privileges - when you submit … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Disaster, Glaciers, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 81 Comments

Dusting for Fingerprints in the Holocene

Posted on March 28, 2012

Guest Post by David Middleton Fingerprints are admissible evidence in criminal trials because of their uniqueness. The probability of two human beings having identical fingerprints is very low. Measurements of δ13C depletion have often been cited as anthropogenic “fingerprints,” proving … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , , | 247 Comments

“The end for small glaciers” or anthropogenic circular reasoning?

Posted on March 19, 2012

Guest Post by David Middleton Breathtaking news from Nature… Published online 9 January 2011 | Nature News The end for small glaciers IPCC estimates of sea level rise corroborated, but large ice sheets might endure. Richard A. Lovett New Zealand’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Glaciers | Tagged , , , , , , , | 89 Comments

Why William D. Nordhaus Is Wrong About Global Warming Skeptics Being Wrong…

Posted on March 3, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton William D. Nordhaus is an economics professor at Yale University. He recently published this essay in the New York Review of Books… Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong March 22, 2012 William D. Nordhaus … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Carbon dioxide, Global warming, James Hansen, Michael E. Mann, Obvious science, Paleoclimatology, The Skeptic's Case | Tagged , , , , , , , | 115 Comments

The Simon-Erlich Wager at Seven Billion People

Posted on January 25, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the prepetually wrong Malthusian biologist, Paul Erlich, entered into a little wager regarding population growth and resource scarcity. They decided on using the inflation-adjusted prices … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Curious things, Economy-health, Energy, Environment | Tagged , , , , , , , | 157 Comments

President Obama’s Very Dishonest Campaign Ad Regarding Energy

Posted on January 24, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton 19 January 2012 Obama clean energy ad airing in Va. A new ad from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign that touts his energy and ethics record began airing in Virginia this week even as Republican … Continue reading →

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Dallas earthquake not caused by fracking… And neither was the Ohio quake.

Posted on January 11, 2012

Guest post by David Middleton Wow! I woke up Friday morning to news that a 2.0 Md earthquake struck about a mile and a half from my office. I was sleeping at home, about 7 miles from the epicenter, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Earth, Earthquakes, Energy, petroleum | Tagged , , , , , , , | 85 Comments

It’s Worse Than We Thought… Again… “Warming may be irreversible by 2017″

Posted on December 5, 2011

This was in our guest author queue, but I was never notified of its existence. Better late than never. – Anthony Guest post by David Middleton… EA: Warming may be irreversible by 2017

Posted in Alarmism | 106 Comments

Chicken Little of the Sea Visits Station ALOHA

Posted on November 24, 2011

Guest post by David Middleton Introduction My never-ending search for actual observational data that support the hypothesis of catastrophic anthropogenic ocean acidification (Chicken Little of the Sea) has taken me to offshore Hawaii and Station ALOHA.

Posted in Alarmism, Environment, Oceans | Tagged , , , , , , , | 35 Comments

Scientific consensus fails again: Start of “Anthropocene” pushed back to Late Pleistocene, scientist vindicated

Posted on November 2, 2011

Guest Post by David Middleton From The Seattle Times SEATTLE (AP) – It’s not unusual for an archaeologist to get stuck in the past, but Carl Gustafson may be the only one consumed by events on the Olympic Peninsula in … Continue reading →

Posted in Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , | 156 Comments

The Incredible Voyage of Neodenticula Seminae

Posted on October 29, 2011

Guest Post by David Middleton This article from a publication called DW-World was recently brought to my attention as iron-clad proof of unprecedented Arctic melting due to AGW… Seems pretty cut and dried… But, I had never heard of DW-World, … Continue reading →

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Warming Island / Greenland Sea Regional Climate and Arctic Sea Ice Reconstruction

Posted on September 29, 2011

Guest post by David Middleton The recent return of the Warming Island AGW myth inspired me to build a climate reconstruction for the Greenland Sea region. Temperature Reconstruction I performed a GISS station search centered on 71.4 N latitude, 23.5 … Continue reading →

Posted in Arctic, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , , | 52 Comments

Warming Island: Just another Warmist myth

Posted on September 16, 2011

Guest post by David Middleton Like a zombie, this island keeps resurrecting itself in the gullible press. Problem is, its been on the maps for 50+ years. From the Guardian yesterday: New atlas shows extent of climate change The world’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Global warming | Tagged , , , | 78 Comments

Dessler: “Paying the price for climate change” or a case of flawed statistical analysis?

Posted on September 13, 2011

Guest post by David Middleton My State is currently in the grip of a very severe drought… Professor Andrew Dessler, an atmospheric sciences professor at our nation’s greatest university, recently authored a column about our drought in the Bryan-College Station … Continue reading →

Posted in Spencer-Braswell and Dessler, Uncategorized | 100 Comments

The BBC’s Richard Black Engages in “Goldilocks-Picking”

Posted on July 11, 2011

Guest post by David Middleton From the BBC… Climate: Cherries are not the only fruit Just about the most predictable event of the week was the tempest of opinion created by the analysis of global temperature changes published in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate FAIL, media, Paleoclimatology | Tagged , , , , , | 103 Comments

Run Away! The “Anthropocene” is coming!!!

Posted on June 24, 2011

Guest Post by David Middleton I just love it when the authors of these sorts of articles start out with a series of mistakes… The Anthropocene: Can Humans Survive A Human Age? by Adam Frank About 12,000 years ago (give … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Paleoclimatology | 101 Comments