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- Applying Scale and Context to the Texas Smokehouse Creek Fire Thu, 12 Dec 24, 9:00amThe purpose of scale is to provide context. A 1 million acre wildfire is big. In the Texas panhandle, it killed two people, destroyed dozens of homes and caused nearly $5 billion in damage. Had a similar sized fire occurred...
- Anthropocene: Cockroach of the Geologic Time Scale! Mon, 30 Sep 24, 7:00amThe Anthropocene does not exist!
- Mass Extinction Fail: Messenian Salinity Crisis Version Sat, 28 Sep 24, 7:00amWhile 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...
- Sea Level Rise Is Causing Longer Days? Wed, 17 Jul 24, 11:00pmGuest “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…
- Anthropocene: The Cockroach of the Geologic Time Scale? Thu, 25 Apr 24, 11:00pmGuest “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…
- PETM Caused by Passing Star? Thu, 22 Feb 24, 1:00amCould a passing rogue star have caused the PETM? Could other astrophysical phenomena been primary drivers of paleoclimate change?
- Applying Scale and Context to 2023’s “Record” High Temperatures Wed, 4 Oct 23, 12:00pmGuest “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 Last Gasp of the Anthropocene? Thu, 13 Jul 23, 11:00pmThe 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...
- “How CO2 Starvation & Plate Tectonics Caused the Greatest Mass Extinction, the Permian Great Dying” Tue, 13 Jun 23, 3:00pmThe 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...
- Kumimanu fordycei: The Giant Penguins of the Paleocene Epoch Tue, 14 Feb 23, 9:00amGiant 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.
- If wishes were horses, we’d all get ponies for Christmas: Geothermal Edition Thu, 2 Feb 23, 5:00am"[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."
- PETM: Good Science Meets Science Journalism in the Gulf of Mexico Tue, 7 Jun 22, 11:00pmGuest “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…
- Haynesville Shale: Record Natural Gas Production Sat, 16 Apr 22, 7:00amGuest “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…
- Hayneville Shale: Record Natural Gas Production Sat, 16 Apr 22, 7:00amGuest “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…
- Add Helium to the Supply Chain Crisis List Tue, 12 Apr 22, 11:00pmGuest “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…