Thought Piece Dear thoughtful readers, I have chosen the Abraham Lincoln method of writing about matters to which I am close: I waited a couple of days before I published my thoughts. That said, some of you have read a previous editorial comment of mine, "Isn't it horrifying when the major media, universities, environmental media, national [...]
Thought Piece Dear thoughtful readers, I have a few thoughts to add to the narrative about the Professor Judith Curry departure from GTU: (1) Dissent is not illegal; (2) persecuting dissenters probably should be; (3) the United States was created by dissenters; (4) skepticism is a building block of all intellectual inquiry; (5) the politicization of any science will [...]
Thought Piece To enter the dazzling world of the Internet of Things, each of the billions and billions of things need hyper-speed, two-way connectivity and equal speed to download and upload information. What is being called 5 G. The other secret sauce is the same specifications for all platforms-cable, fiber optics and wireless. Sorry, DSL you [...]
Thought Piece (BERLIN, GERMANY - DECEMBER 12: The natural-gas fueled Heizkraftwerk Berlin-Mitte power plant of Swedish energy company Vattenfall stands on December 12, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. The modern plant creates both heat for residential and office buildings in the city center as well as electricity. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The rhetoric that presupposes all [...]
Thought Piece They see black and white and I see red. It is hard not to notice the obvious bias of the BBC writer. How can there be any real debate about "global warming" or its Siamese twin, "climate change." In fact, this "report" may be an example of funding bias. First, I confess to being a [...]
Thought Piece This article was written by Patrick Miller of The Bakken Magazine over a year ago. In it, he quotes Jonathan Garrett (a principal analyst with Wood Mackenzie in Houston and the company’s Bakken expert) extensively. This piece is more or less confirmed by a recent forecast, "Top 5 Issues to affect oil/gas in 2017," made by [...]
Thought Piece “Isn't it horrifying when much of the major media, a minorities of states and their AG's, the EPA, the DOE, even the IPCC and NASA have become so politicized that they aren't trustworthy? The Clean Power Plan has many, many flaws which I discuss in a published piece entitled "The EPA and its [...]
Top 5 issues to affect oil/gas in 2017 – Wood Mackenzie Analysts at Wood Mackenzie in their 2017 forecasts for the oil and gas say the industry will turn cash flow positive for the first time since the downturn, if OPEC production cuts drive oil prices above US$55 per barrel. Tom Ellacott, senior vice president [...]
Thought Piece Below is a cautionary tale about Science and the Climate Industry: It is no more infallible or necessarily unbiased than any other large, political, well-connected and well-funded group. If Shakespeare were alive today, he would be neither shocked nor speechless.... Don't Be Naive Enough to Believe the Climate Industry Is Incorruptible Posted on June 5, 2015 by [...]
Thought Piece "EPA officials other than Del Toral were also roundly criticized, however, with Chaffetz saying they were expected to serve as a federal "backstop" in case states didn't do their job. He said it was "nine months after Del Toral requested EPA intervene ... and at least four months after Administrator McCarthy became involved" before [...]
