A new book and the temperatures in the Mountains

One of the many significant salient points that Donna Laframboise makes in her new book on the IPCC lies in the predilection of the IPCC aut...

The Future of Oil Shale

I have spent some time over the past few weeks writing about various different ways of producing oil from oil shale. While it is now about ...

Charcoal, Oil Shale and the Ecoshale process in Utah

If you drive West from St Louis (as I did Thursday after my check-up*) you will occasionally hit a pocket of air that smells a little sweet,...

Utah Temperatures and Colorado UHI

This is now the fourth in an originally unplanned series looking at the differences between GISS and USHCN average temperatures and some tre...

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...

Oil Shale, a future source of oil?

One of the large numbers that is often quoted in response to the concerns that some of us express over future energy supplies relates to the...

P30 Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Moving to undo some of the last actions of the Bush Administration Interior Secretary Salazar has ca...

P26. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Former Vice-President Gore has given his support to the Administration’s Stimulus package. He suppo...