Thought Piece I will leave it up to my gentle readers to determine who engages in character attacks, "confusionism" and "denialism." and, who plays a particularly "pernicious role" in the climate change debate. Below, I have quoted an interview that Mr. Mann gave to Scott Waldman: "For his part, Mann said climate science would be stronger without [...]
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 [...]
Thought Piece There has been a lot of recent handwringing about scientists and other climate change advocates being censored or punished for their climate change efforts over the last decade. Frankly, I can’t help but notice that names like Judith Curry, Anthony Watts, Roger Pielke, JR & SR, Eric Worrall, Willis Eschenbach, Christopher Monckton, David Schnare, [...]
Thought Piece The scientific foundation to better protect drinking water resources during fracking EPA releases final report on fracking’s drinking water impacts December 14, 2016 | By Patrick C. Miller Industry groups harshly criticized the EPA for changing the conclusions of its scientific report on how fracking impacts drinking water, but the report is expected to [...]
Thought Piece Trump Says 'nobody really knows' if climate change real. As Al Gore Told Donald Trump . . . Forget climate change. Green handouts have become a political end in themselves. December 9, 2016 | By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., Wall Street Journal During the decades we’ve been waiting for actual climate data to validate [...]
