“It’s the most dire prediction yet”!!! Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. By Marianne Lavelle PUBLISHED MAY 23, 2016 In even the bleakest climate change…
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Politico: 40% Surge in Orders for New Ice Hardened Petroleum Transporters
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Politico reports that Finland’s Ship Building Industry is experiencing a bumper year, as Paris Climate Agreement signatories celebrate the new global environmental accord, by massively…
"Smoke & Fumes"… The dumbest attack on ExxonMobil evah'
Guest post by David Middleton This morning’s edition of Real Clear Energy brought to my attention the dumbest attack on ExxonMobil and the oil industry that I have ever seen.…
RCP 8.5: The "Mother of all" Junk Climate Science
Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. Nearly every catastrophic global warming doomsday scenario, particularity those involving icecap failures and Noah-size sea level rises are based on…
Britain Strikes Black Gold at 'Gatwick Gusher'
Oil Prices Crash After Saudis Fail To Broker Global Production Cut Shares in UK Oil and Gas Investments soared by as much as 77pc after the Aim-listed developer announced that…
Lessons from the hysteria about peak oil (2005-2013)
By Larry Kummer, from the Fabius Maximus website Summary: The peak oil hysteria provides rich lessons for us today about learning from activists and the value of listening to our…
USC: we can make fuel directly out of Carbon Dioxide
From the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA and the “fuel out of thin air” department comes this announcement that says right off the bat it can’t compete with oil, especially when…
Why oil prices are likely to remain low for the foreseeable future – Shale 2.0
Shale Revolution Changes Everything How the Shale Revolution Has Reduced Geopolitical and Price Risk Opec was on the verge of claiming victory over its North American rivals last night after…
The Value of Petroleum Fuels
Guest essay by Andy May It is difficult to compare 1840 to 2015, so much of what we have today didn’t exist then. But, they had to move people and…
Peak Oil Re-visited
Guest essay by Mike Jonas In January 2012, my article “Peak Oil – the R/P Ratio re-visited” was posted on WUWT. 3 years on, maybe this ever-controversial subject is…
Unconventional Oil Revolution Rocks Green Agenda
North America To Flood The World With Cheap & Abundant Fossil Fuels North America, once a sponge that sucked in a significant portion of the world’s oil, will instead be…
Irony alert – wind turbine involved in petroleum spill at sea
Hazard to navigation? Danish ‘Safety Ship’ OMS Pollux, leaking oil after colliding with Morecambe Bay wind turbine A SHIP is leaking diesel after crashing into a wind turbine off the…
Newsbytes – U.S. Democrats Embrace Shale Boom Ahead of Midterm Elections
From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser World Awash In Oil Shields Markets From 2008 Price Shock The US shale boom is shaping a new kind of Democrat in national…
Quakes, Fracking, Hysteria, and Energy Independence
From Cornell University , another one of the numerous studies that tries to make fracking (via wastewater products) look bad because it is claimed to cause small earthquakes as far…
Canada pulls the plug on the U.S. Keystone Pipeline – will send oil to Asia
Approves Asia Supply Route, Ignores US Route H/T Eric Worrall and Breitbart – Obama’s inability to make a decision on Keystone has finally yielded a result – Canada has made…
It’s Game Over for Keystone XL opponents 'Game Over' Claims
Even Dr. James Hansen doesn’t believe Keystone XL itself will significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions Video follows below At today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Keystone XL, Chairman Robert…
More Fun with Oil and Gas
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, having had such a good time with M. King Hubbert meeting the EIA, I thought I’d toss out another puzzle. This one is inspired…
New – magnetic, reusuable, oil spill recovery material
Breakthrough or bogus? I ask readers to help sort it out. Every once in awhile something comes along that gives us a wow factor. This is one of those times.…
CO2 causes earthquakes, is there anything it can't do?
From the University of Texas at Austin and the “if a small earthquake happens in the boonies, does anyone care?” department comes this press release that the anti-frackers will most…
Dana Nuccitelli's 'vested interest' ? – oil and gas
As a skeptic of AGW, I and many of my peers are often subjected to scrutiny and accusations of being in the employ of “big oil”. It’s a standard line…
Canadian Tragedy
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was saddened to read this morning that a train with a load of crude oil derailed and caught fire in Lac-Mégantic, Canada, and I…
I'm on Al Gore's radar – for showing a path forward
Heh. Apparently, I must be destroyed for having an opinion. From Al Gore’s “Reality Drop” project, the GoreBots have been given the orders. What’s all the hullabaloo about? An interview…
Oil Production on Federal Lands Fell Again in 2012 – Climate Progress Blames Geology
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…
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