The Anthropocene does not exist!
While the Messinian Salinity Crisis and subsequent Zanclean Megaflood comprise one of the most incredible episodes in geologic history... So incredible that the uppermost stage of the Miocene epoch is named the Messinian...
Guest “I couldn’t make this sort of schist up, even if I was trying” by David Middleton ‘Unprecedented’ Sea Level Rise Is Making Earth’s Days Longer Published Jul 15, 2024 at…
Guest “Roaches check in — but they don’t check out!” by David Middleton Who could ever forget this classic 1980 TV commercial, featuring “the Greatest” Muhammad Ali? As Kip Hansen…
Could a passing rogue star have caused the PETM? Could other astrophysical phenomena been primary drivers of paleoclimate change?
Guest “geological scale and context” by David Middleton, 2023 has been a hot year… We have the makings of a super-El Niño and an unprecedented injection of water vapor into…
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) was established in 2009 to see if there was a way to geologically differentiate an Anthropocene Epoch from the Holocene Epoch...
The gradual sequestering of CO2 over millions of years gradually dropped CO2 to starvation levels that reduced photosynthesis, causing the "phytoplankton blackout" and Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse, wide spread ecosystem...
Giant penguins thrived in a much warmer world, without year-round sea ice... Yet modern penguins are doomed by warming temperatures and declining year-round sea ice... Right.
"[I]f the Texas drilling industry drilled as many geothermal wells as it currently does oil and gas... the state could run itself off geothermal power by 2027."
Guest “Oy vey!” by David Middleton 4 June 2022 Qamariya Nasrullah How ancient ocean life in the Gulf of Mexico escaped mass extinctionThe geology of the sheltered basin helped protect…
Guest “Fracking A, Bubba,” by David Middleton The Haynesville Shale (technically Haynesville/Bossier) in northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana is the third largest natural gas play, in terms of production rate…
Guest “Fracking A, Bubba,” by David Middleton The Haynesville Shale (technically Haynesville/Bossier) in northeast Texas and northwest Louisiana is the third largest natural gas play, in terms of production rate…
Guest “Everything you never wanted to know about helium” by David Middleton Free-For-All In Helium Market Could Send Prices Sky-HighBy Tom Kool – Mar 30, 2022 The gas that is…
When a threshold is crossed the physical system responds with positive and negative feedbacks until settling into a new climate state as the perturbation damps out.
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