Guest geology by David Middleton Introduction We are often told that the warmth of the Early Paleogene was driven by CO2; and that the cool-down from the Late Paleogene, into…
Tag: Geology Lessons
A Clean Kill of the Carbon Dioxide-Driven Climate Change Hypothesis?
Guest geology by David Middleton Way back in the Pleistocene (1976-1980), when I was a young geology student, the notion of CO2 as a driver of climate change was largely…
Shale Gas: Penn State Researchers Rediscover Circular Reasoning
Guest “are you fracking kidding me?” by David Middleton Researchers unearth cost-effective method for finding shale gasNew method approximates available gas in untapped areas of Marcellus Shale region using well…
Revisiting Day One of the Cenozoic Era
Guest geology by David Middleton Cenozoic Era: The Era of New Life Who would have ever guessed that details about the first day of the Cenozoic Era might have been…
Los Angeles Doomed: Not Because Climate Change
Guest geologizing by David Middleton Earthquake fault long thought dormant could devastate Los Angeles, researchers say By DEBORAH NETBURNSTAFF WRITER AUG. 31, 2019 9:42 AM Scientists citing new research say…
Moon Rock Mineralogy: Yes, the Apollo missions were real, QEDirt
Guest geological story-telling by David Middleton One of the coolest things about WUWT is the enthusiasm that Anthony and many other regulars here have for the space program. As a…
Anthropocene: “it will be the rocks that have the final say” about this fake word.
Guest geology by David Middleton The fake geologic epoch known as the “Anthropocene” just won’t die… It’s like a zombie from a bad science fiction movie. NEWS FEATURE 06 AUGUST 2019…
Middle Miocene Volcanism, Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
Guest geology lesson by David Middleton What’s wrong with the following paragraph? In Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous times, Gondwana was split apart, and as rift volcanism and sea-floor spreading developed, ocean…
Internet Science Made Stupid: “Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico ‘Supervolcano’ About To Erupt”
Guest geological storytelling by David Middleton In my recent post, How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor, we discussed the rifting that enabled…
How Climate Change Buried a Desert 20,000 Feet Beneath the Gulf of Mexico Seafloor
Guest geological storytelling by David Middleton You see the story yet? It’s all pretty much here.In a language you can’t yet understand, but it’s here.A tale of upheaval and battles…
Prediction: Iran Sanctions To Trigger $120/bbl Oil! Or Not.
Guest Yogi Berra impression by David Middleton Last month, Dr. Phillip Verleger, a professional prediction maker, predicted a crash in U.S. crude oil production in 2020. My response was: Certainly…
Energy Returned On Energy Invested: Real(ish)Things That Don’t Matter, Part Trois
Featured Image Guest Seinfeld routine by David Middleton In Part One of this series, we looked at Peak Oil and its irrelevance to energy production and also discussed the relevance…
Abiotic Oil: Real(ish)Things That Don’t Matter, Part Deux
Guest Seinfeld routine by David Middleton In part one of this series, we looked at Peak Oil and its irrelevance to energy production. In Part Deux, we will look at…
Peak Oil, Abiotic Oil & EROEI: Real(ish) Things That Don’t Matter, Part One: Peak Oil
Guest Seinfeld routine by David Middleton The plots of the Seinfeld TV show often revolved around trivializing important things and blowing trivial things out of proportion. While not a Seinfeld…
The World’s Deepest Oil Well: How Bad Science Spreads on the Internet
Guest eye-rolling by David Middleton This eye-catching blog post was published in 2017 by “Fuel Fighter“… Fuel Fighter sells home heating oil in the UK… Yet this has been treated…
Peak Ghawar: A Peak Oiler’s Nightmare
Alternate title: No… “The biggest Saudi oil field is [NOT] fading faster than anyone guessed”… Part Trois: Why Peak Oil Is Irrelevant and the Perpetually Refilling Abiotic Oil Field Is…
Chicken Little of the Sea Is Dissolving the Sea Floor!!! Run Away!!!
Guest lampooning by David Middleton Hat tip to Latitude… Human activities are dissolving the seafloor by the Office of Communications Nov. 5, 2018 2:07 p.m. With increasing carbon dioxide from…
Back to the Cretaceous! Because… CLIMATE CHANGE!
Guest AEUHHH??? by David Middleton We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal Peter Forbes is a science writer whose work has appeared in New Scientist,…
“Climate change endangers dozens of World Heritage sites” – Leaning Tower of Pizza Edition
Guest sciencey schist by David Middleton Yes… I know it’s Pisa, not Pizza… But I’m trying a low-carb diet and I really miss pizza, Among the 1,000+ UNESCO World Heritage…
A Geological Perspective of Wildfires
Guest essay by David Middleton Warning: This is a long post, >5,200 words. Introduction This post was inspired by Anthony Watts’ recent post about wildfires and their unwillingness to cooperate…
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