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- Guest “Roaches check in — but they don’t check out!” by David Middleton Who could ever forget this classic 1980 TV commercial, featuring “the Greatest” Muhammad Ali? As Kip Hansen…
- PETM Caused by Passing Star? Thu, 22 Feb 24, 1:00amCould a passing rogue star have caused the PETM? Could other astrophysical phenomena been primary drivers of paleoclimate change?
- Applying Scale and Context to 2023’s “Record” High Temperatures Wed, 4 Oct 23, 12:00pmGuest “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…
- The Last Gasp of the Anthropocene? Thu, 13 Jul 23, 11:00pmThe 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...
- “How CO2 Starvation & Plate Tectonics Caused the Greatest Mass Extinction, the Permian Great Dying” Tue, 13 Jun 23, 3:00pmThe gradual sequestering of CO2 over millions of years gradually dropped CO2 to starvation levels that reduced photosynthesis, causing the "phytoplankton blackout" and Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse, wide spread ecosystem...
- Kumimanu fordycei: The Giant Penguins of the Paleocene Epoch Tue, 14 Feb 23, 9:00amGiant 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.
- If wishes were horses, we’d all get ponies for Christmas: Geothermal Edition Thu, 2 Feb 23, 5:00am"[I]f the Texas drilling industry drilled as many geothermal wells as it currently does oil and gas... the state could run itself off geothermal power by 2027."
- PETM: Good Science Meets Science Journalism in the Gulf of Mexico Tue, 7 Jun 22, 11:00pmGuest “Oy vey!” by David Middleton 4 June 2022 Qamariya Nasrullah How ancient ocean life in the Gulf of Mexico escaped mass extinctionThe geology of the sheltered basin helped protect…
- Haynesville Shale: Record Natural Gas Production Sat, 16 Apr 22, 7:00amGuest “Fracking A, Bubba,” by David Middleton The Haynesville Shale (technically Haynesville/Bossier) in northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana is the third largest natural gas play, in terms of production rate…
- Hayneville Shale: Record Natural Gas Production Sat, 16 Apr 22, 7:00amGuest “Fracking A, Bubba,” by David Middleton The Haynesville Shale (technically Haynesville/Bossier) in northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana is the third largest natural gas play, in terms of production rate…
- Add Helium to the Supply Chain Crisis List Tue, 12 Apr 22, 11:00pmGuest “Everything you never wanted to know about helium” by David Middleton Free-For-All In Helium Market Could Send Prices Sky-HighBy Tom Kool – Mar 30, 2022 The gas that is…
- Tipping points in Earths geophysical and biological systems Mon, 7 Mar 22, 9:00amWhen a threshold is crossed the physical system responds with positive and negative feedbacks until settling into a new climate state as the perturbation damps out.
- Rain Caused Volcano to Erupt… Because Climate Change? Fri, 10 Dec 21, 9:00amGuest “Did you ever play the telephone game?” by David Middleton Hat tip to Ted… Message: Please find a qualified geologist to take on this nonsense...
- The “Anthropolitan” Compromise? Tue, 30 Nov 21, 5:00amGuest “Stick a fork in it” by David Middleton This should “stick a fork” in the notion of an Anthropocene Epoch… Gill co-authors report arguing Anthropocene should be a geological…
- Clear Evidence of a Low Altitude Cometary Air Burst Over the Atacama Desert ca. 12,000 Years Ago Fri, 5 Nov 21, 12:00pmGuest “No, this does not confirm the YDIH,” by David Middleton. Vast patches of glassy rock in Chilean desert likely created by ancient exploding cometHeat from a comet exploding just…