Guest “who needs PhD’s?” by David Middleton Mrs. Middleton sent me this little gem… Who Needs Geoscientists?Mike Simmons, Andy Davies, Andy W. Hill and Mike StephensonThe evolving role of geoscience through the energy transition.This article appeared in Vol. 17, No. 3 – 2020 Who Needs Geoscientists? At the time of writing, the world is enduring…
Guest “I hope so” by David Middleton This is fracking hilarious… POWER TRIPHow electric vehicles could be used to hack the 2020 electionBy Justin Rohrlich December 11, 2019 When former CIA director James Woolsey said in 2017 that he was “confident the Russians will be back, and that they will take what they have learned…
Guest “you couldn’t make this sort of schist up if you tried” by David Middleton From the American Association of Science of America [1]… Hungry elephants fight climate change one mouthful at a timeBy Eva Frederick Jul. 15, 2019 […] As African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis, above) graze, they munch trees and plants with stems…
Guest Ayeuhhh???? by David Middleton Meanwhile, oil, gas, and coal companies are killing many of the 22,000 remaining polar bears by melting the ice and destroying habitat, yet get away with it. Man charged in Alaska for killing a polar bear and burning body after letting it rot 5 monthshttps://t.co/48bxn1EsHl — Mark Z. Jacobson (@mzjacobson)…
Guest aeuhhh??? by David Middleton H/T to Pop Piasa… Planning in and for a post-growth and post-carbon economy John BarryContribution to Cowell, R et al (eds), Routledge Companion Volume to Environmental Planning and Sustainability Introduction – the condition our condition is in […] John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy This was as the only…
Guest “you gotta be kidding me” by David Middleton Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Could Be a Very Profitable Business Model Tam Hunt outlines the compelling economics for using solar to supply Bitcoin mining operations. TAM HUNT SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are now a major business, with the global market capitalization of these coins…
Guest skewering by David Middleton Yale’s Endowment Won’t Divest from Fossil Fuels. Here’s Why That’s Wrong. JENNIFER STOCK & GEREMY SCHULICK MARCH 8, 2019 Two climate activists and Yale alumni confront the arguments of Yale’s chief investment officer, arguing that he must summon the moral clarity to end support for fossil fuel companies. At my…
Guest ridiculing by David Middleton Hat tip to Clyde Spencer Exxon’s Climate Denial Set To Face First Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount Alexander C. Kaufman HuffPost•March 19, 2019 It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp.understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet to warm before it began funding a Big Tobacco-style misinformation…
Guest humor by David Middleton I ran across this interesting article on Real Clear Science today: Is That Science? The Wide World of Science Jamie Hale October 24, 2018 Science is persuasive, and it should be; science is the great reality detector. What appears to be a scientific claim often isn’t. Promoters of pseudoscience (claims…
Guest cross examination by David Middleton THE PEOPLE V. CLIMATE CHANGE ‘Biggest case on the planet’ pits kids vs. climate change A pioneering lawsuit against the U.S. government won the right to a trial. But the Trump administration is still asking the courts to cancel it. BY LAURA PARKER PUBLISHED OCTOBER 19, 2018 LEVI DRAHEIM…
Who else remembers this TV show? One of today’s Real Clear Energy headlines, wholly unrelated to energy, made me think of Kids Say the Darndest Things… Saudi Arabia’s Oil Price Sweet Spot Tsvetana Paraskova, Oil Price US Will Work With India on Iran Oil Imports Staff, S&P Global Platts FERC Speeding Up Reviews on LNG Projects…
Guest rebuttal by David Middleton From the Climatariat News Network’s Non Sequitur Department: If Trump and GOP don’t understand climate change, they don’t deserve public office By Jill Filipovic Tue August 21, 2018 Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and Nairobi, Kenya, and the author of the book “The H-Spot: The Feminist…
And why it won’t matter when they do… Guest mockery by David Middleton CEO of world’s largest oil company says it will be ‘decades’ before electric cars become real threat It will be decades before electric vehicles make up a significant percentage of the global car fleet, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said. Electric cars…
Guest ridicule by David Middleton The Grauniad: The gift that keeps on giving! A British-led expedition has discovered sizeable chunks of polystyrene lying on remote frozen ice floes in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. The depressing find, only 1,000 miles from the north pole, is the first made in an area that was previously…