Category Archives: Energy

Who’s Awarding Pinocchios for Environmental Journalism?

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Steve Maley

From the article’s graphics, you’d never guess that less than 0.3% of the assessed area was rated as severe or moderate impact in the most recent study; 79% was assessed “no impact” or “pristine”. Continue reading →

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Unwoke Advice for Climate Change Kids

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Steve Maley

Students gather in Columbus Circle in New York for a student-led protest, part of many school climate strikes around the world, against a lack of action on climate issues and to raise awareness about climate change. (Justin Lane/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock, as published … Continue reading →

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Senator Warren knows better than Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama

Posted on April 26, 2019 by Steve Maley

U.S. Presidents from Nixon through Obama repeated it like a mantra: “America needs to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.” Jimmy Carter called the energy crisis “the moral equivalent of war.” Even President Obama, no fan of oil and gas, … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump, the Energy President?

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Steve Maley

This is an excerpt from a blog post I wrote after Obama’s 2012 State of the Union address (emphasis in original): I keep circling back to the central irony of the Obama Presidency: Obama could have been the Energy President. … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Deepwater Horizon

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Steve Maley

Now in general release, Deepwater Horizon stars Mark Wahlberg as Mike Williams, an electronics tech stationed aboard the ill-fated drilling rig. The explosion and fire, which occurred off the Louisiana coast on April 20, 2010, killed eleven Transocean hands and led to the … Continue reading →

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Father Gaia, on the Green Movement: “It’s a religion, you see. It’s totally unscientific.”

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Steve Maley

At 97, James Lovelock, futurist and creator of the Gaia Hypothesis, is just hitting his stride. And it’s causing some concern among his acolytes. (The Gaia Hypothesis holds that the Earth is more a self-regulating organism life form than a ball of molten iron … Continue reading →

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Royalty: It’s Not Just for Royalty Anymore #fracking

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Steve Maley

A recent article in the New York Times considered disparity of income distribution in the U.S. An attached graphic, reproduced and annotated below, shows the income threshold to be in the top 1% of income earners, by county, in the … Continue reading →

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If you believe #fracking causes Oklahoma earthquakes, then you should also believe that Islam causes terrorism.

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Steve Maley

Because both beliefs are founded in the same kind of sloppy, simplified guilt-by-association reasoning applied to a complex problem. Fivethirtyeight.com has a decent, not perfect*, description of Oklahoma’s earthquake dilemma. Now, I’m a thousand miles away and only mildly educated … Continue reading →

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Sure, Obama was wrong. But there’s a bigger point to be made.

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Steve Maley

Throughout his two terms, Barack Obama’s position on energy policy is encapsulated in the soundbite: “We can’t just drill our way to lower gasoline prices.” In one case he doubled down, adding, “Anybody who tells you otherwise either doesn’t know … Continue reading →

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Oil Simulation, Climate Modeling and the Scientific Method

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Steve Maley

Subtitle: Garbage In, Consensus Out, Part II Part I concerned a WSJ essay by Robert J. Caprara, “Confessions of a Computer Modeler”. In Part II I will share what I know about computer modeling in oil and gas applications, and raise questions about … Continue reading →

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