Guest “implied face palm” by David Middleton How Is This science? Why the Thanksgiving myth persists, according to science Memory often favors a tidy narrative over the messier reality of…
Author: David Middleton
I've been a geologist/geophysicist in the "climate wrecking industry since 1981, including a six-year exile into management. The vast majority of my career has been spent in the Gulf of Mexico, primarily in the East Cameron South Addition and Garden Banks (East Cameron South Addition South) areas.
I also have a strong interest in paleoclimatology and am a frequent contributor to Watts Up With That? https://wattsupwiththat.com/author/debunkhouse/
Solar Set to Be Dominant Power Source by… When?
Guest “What is never?” by David Middleton Why does this remind me of the Monty Python Spanish Inquisition skit? New Research: The World May Have Crossed a Solar “Tipping Point”…
Copper, “The New Oil”?
Guest “There’s copper in them thar hills” by David Middleton Copper Is Critical for America’s New Energy Economy By Andy Kireta, Jr.October 18, 2023 The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) new…
Tree Rings Reveal Largest Solar Storm EVAH!
Guest “Well, the largest yet identified,” by David Middleton NEWS RELEASE 9-OCT-2023 Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS An international team of…
Applying Scale and Context to 2023’s “Record” High Temperatures
Guest “geological scale and context” by David Middleton, 2023 has been a hot year… We have the makings of a super-El Niño and an unprecedented injection of water vapor into…
Judge Blocks Biden’s Unlawful Lease Sale Restriction
Oil & gas industry defeats Biden administration in court… Again.
When Climate Change Really Was an Existential Threat
Guest “Could have used the Extinction Rebellion back then!” by David Middleton, What was going on from 1,000-800 ka that may have nearly wiped out our ancestors? Temperatures plunged, glaciers…
Gulf of Mexico Wind Auction Draws Little Interest
The US government held a Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale and almost no one showed up!
Oil Group Sues Interior Over Arbitrary Unlawful Restrictions
Guest “Time to kick some @$$!” by David Middleton This is a continuation of the Rice’s whales saga. A quick recap One of the first things Biden did after occupying…
EPA Carbon Rule Will Lead to ‘Significant Power Shortages’
“The EPA is overestimating how quickly technological advances may occur in “green” hydrogen… as well as in carbon capture and storage, or CCS”
CNN Credits Biden for Record High US Oil Production
Guest “You can’t fix stupid” by David Middleton CNN’s Matt Egan must be a very special kind of stupid… Under Biden, US oil production is poised to break Trump-era records…
More Media Lies About the Texas Electricity Grid
Guest “Lying must be like breathing to them” by David Middleton Solar, wind energy keeping Texas power grids running amid weekslong heat wave Inflated prices and power failures could have…
Biden Violates Inflation Reduction Act Less Than One Year After Signing It Because…
Biden once again tries to unlawfully restrict offshore oil & gas operations.
The Last Gasp of the Anthropocene?
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) was established in 2009 to see if there was a way to geologically differentiate an Anthropocene Epoch from the Holocene Epoch. The notion has always…
Haynesville Natural Gas Production Sets New Record… Again
Featured image from Midwest Capital Advisors Guest “Déjà vu all over again” by David Middleton From the US Energy Information Administration: Just over one year ago… Frac On! From 2000…
Jude Clemente: “Five Things I Truly Don’t Understand About… the Energy Transition”
“This list could be closer to 50 but let’s just stick to a handful of them. I live in this business every day, and I’m just so confused.”
SCOTUS to allow junk climate lawsuits in State courts… Yawn
This ruling is being touted by the Climatariat as a “blow to oil companies”… In fact, it is nothing more than a “narrow, procedural decision”.
The “Climate Funding Gap”… Gap? More like an “unscalable cliff”!
The “climate funding gap”… More like an unscalable cliff!
If Global Warming Is Causing More Homeruns in MLB, It’s Also Causing More Strikeouts
Baseball statistics clearly refute the claim that climate change is leading to more homeruns in Major League Baseball.
California Gov. Newsom to make gas prices even higher!
Governor Newsom says “California Took on Big Oil and Won.” Reality says Californian politicians are the reason why gasoline prices are so high in The Golden State.
CJR “Both-sidesing the climate story”
Columbia Journalism Review decries “Both-sidesing the climate story” while the Columbia Climate School presents more than two sides.
Minnesota Democrats Vote to Freeze in the Dark by 2040
Minnesota Democrats vote to freeze in the dark by 2040.
Kumimanu fordycei: The Giant Penguins of the Paleocene Epoch
Giant penguins thrived in a much warmer world, without year-round sea ice… Yet modern penguins are doomed by warming temperatures and declining year-round sea ice… Right.
“Hail Columbia”
February 1, 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of the tragic loss of STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven brave astronauts.
You must be logged in to post a comment.