Test results from nuclear stimulation of oil and gas reservoirs

Hmmm! Well the tone of some the comments on my last post -dealing with nuclear development of oil shale,, both recently and when I initiall...

Temperature data for Kansas - does it help?

Well this is the third in what was not planned as a continuing saga. So far some significant climate assumptions haven’t held up so well on...

Of Graduate Starting Salaries and the underlying message

While there are many different criteria that cause students to choose different careers, it is a reality that whenever the salaries for thos...

Nuclear weapons and oil shale

There is a distinct possibility that we will see the global supply of oil begin to decline within the next decade. In fact the drop may com...

The Precipitation Hypothesis - is it true?

Today we test the “Diane Sawyer” hypothesis. The hypothesis we are testing is that global warming has led to an increase in precipitation. ...

An updated look at Lithium production

Just over a year ago, and spurred by an article in Time , I wrote a post on the possible global supply of lithium , which is used in renew...

Conventional Mining of Oil Shale

So, there we have all this oil, sitting in these nice thick oil shale beds out West and just waiting to turn some local in Colorado into the...

Being a Climate Scientist for a day

So who is right, Phil Jones or Anthony Watts? Basically they disagree over the influence of town size on measured temperature. So being an e...