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- 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…
- The Day the Earth Fell Over Thu, 28 Oct 21, 12:00pmGuest “Klaatu barada nikto” by David Middleton My apologies to Robert Wise, Edmund H. North, Harry Bates, Michael Rennie and the guy who played Gort in the 1951 classic, The…
- Mars Perseverance: More Evidence of Ancient Lake/Delta System Wed, 13 Oct 21, 12:00amGuest ” If it looks like a delta, walks like a delta and quacks like a delta, it might just be… ” by David Middleton It looked like a delta…
- The Cretaceous Geology of Alabama and Modern Sea Level Rise… Fri, 10 Sep 21, 7:00amGuest “How not to connect the present with the past” by David Middleton Alabama’s Return to the SeaA paleontological site shows how life endured in an Alabama that was almost…
- A Peak Oiler and an Abiotic Oil Aficionado Walked into a Bar on the Gulf of Mexico… Fri, 13 Aug 21, 3:00amGuest “Deepwater trip to Mars” by David Middleton A Peak Oiler would look at this pie chart and declare that 93% of the oil and gas under the US Federal…
- Critical Rock Theory Thu, 12 Aug 21, 11:00amGuest “Surely you can’t be serious” by David Middleton “I am serious and don’t call me Shirley!” H/T to Willie Soon for the article and the catchy phrase: Critical Rock…