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…
Author: David Middleton
I've been a geologist/geophysicist in the "climate wrecking industry since 1981, including a six-year exile into management. The vast majority of my career has been spent in the Gulf of Mexico, primarily in the East Cameron South Addition, Garden Banks (East Cameron South Addition South), Green Canyon and Mississippi Canyon areas.
I also have a strong interest in paleoclimatology and am a frequent contributor to Watts Up With That? https://wattsupwiththat.com/author/debunkhouse/
In other news…"Ten Reasons Why Fracking is (not) Doomed"
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…
How Green Was My Bankruptcy? “Roadmap for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands” Edition
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.…
More Glacial Junk Science Journalism
[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…
Dusting for Fingerprints in the Holocene
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…
"The end for small glaciers" or anthropogenic circular reasoning?
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…
Why William D. Nordhaus Is Wrong About Global Warming Skeptics Being Wrong…
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…
The Simon-Ehrlich Wager at Seven Billion People
Guest post by David Middleton Back in 1980, the great libertarian economist, Julian Simon, and the prepetually wrong Malthusian biologist, Paul Ehrlich, entered into a little wager regarding population growth…
Dallas earthquake not caused by fracking… And neither was the Ohio quake.
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…
It's Worse Than We Thought… Again… "Warming may be irreversible by 2017"
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…
Chicken Little of the Sea Visits Station ALOHA
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…
Scientific consensus fails again: Start of "Anthropocene" pushed back to Late Pleistocene, scientist vindicated
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…
The Incredible Voyage of Neodenticula Seminae
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…
Warming Island / Greenland Sea Regional Climate and Arctic Sea Ice Reconstruction
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…
Warming Island: Just another Warmist myth
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…
Dessler: "Paying the price for climate change" or a case of flawed statistical analysis?
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…
The BBC's Richard Black Engages in "Goldilocks-Picking"
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…
Run Away! The "Anthropocene" is coming!!!
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…
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