Compliments of the Season to all

Gentle Readers: Family affairs have intervened in the past few days to delay some of the new posts that I had planned, and with the Ch...

The 2012 Exxon Mobil view of the future

Each year the major oil companies publish their projections on fossil fuel supplies as they foresee them developing over future decades. La...

OGPSS - Looking at Azerbaijan future fuel production

The President of SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, is touring the United States at the moment. His goal is, in part, to gain sup...

AMO, NAO and predicting Atlantic Coast temperatures

Several months ago, after finishing the individual state temperature evaluations, I started putting the state data together in regional grou...

ONI and individual state temperatures

The influence that sea surface temperatures have on land temperatures and climate is an ongoing debate, and I mentioned this somewhat in my ...

Still watching Katla

It has been a little while since I wrote about the possible eruption of the Katla volcano in Iceland. For a while it appeared that the incr...

OGPSS - an initial look at Baku and Azerbaijan

“The Prize”, itself a prize-winning history of oil written by Daniel Yergin covers the growth of the oil industry around the world, and begi...