OGPSS - Coal power and air pollution

Fifty years ago I began my undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. It is not something I particularly dwell on, but the...

OGPSS - Some thoughts at the end of the year

For most of this past year these posts have reviewed, and then discussed data on the state of different reservoirs of oil and gas that ultim...

OGPSS - The Oil that lies Offshore California

Last week I covered some of the early history of the development of the oil industry in California , and briefly mentioned the difficulties ...

API, EPA and Hydrofracking gas shale

There has been some ongoing discussions around the country about the possibility of drinking water contamination as a result of hydrofracki...

Revisiting my Climate Change predictions from last year

This time last year I wrote a post on The Oil Drum of sufficient controversy that it ended with my being dropped as an Editor at that site...

Distortion and Defamation - not what Science should be about

I was planning on writing a little about the way in which carbon dioxide is absorbed into the ocean today, but a couple of things continue t...

The EPA Endangerment Finding

In a long-anticipated announcement today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced After a thorough examination of the scientifi...