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The vast ravines swallowing whole neighbourhoods around the world
The vast ravines swallowing whole neighbourhoods around the world This was once a bustling street in Buriticupu, a city in north-east Brazil. Now it is a vast chasm 80m deep – a 20-storey building could fit inside it. Canyons like this are known locally as “voçoroca” or “torn land” in the indigenous Tupi-Guarani language. The […]
GeoDestinies 2022
GeoDestinies 2022 Walter Youngquist (1921-2018) was a petroleum geologist, a University of Oregon professor, and my friend. His life’s masterpiece is a 600 page book that’s now available to everyone as a free PDF download [HERE]. Geologists study Earth resources, many of which are being degraded and depleted — aquifers, topsoil, hydrocarbons, minerals, etc. These […]
A Geology Insider Explains Why The Global Energy Crisis Is Going To Get Much, Much Worse
A Geology Insider Explains Why The Global Energy Crisis Is Going To Get Much, Much Worse It is becoming clear that we are in far more trouble than we are being told. In recent months, all forms of traditional energy have become significantly more expensive, and this is fueling price increases all over the planet. […]
Facing the Anthropocene: An Update
Facing the Anthropocene: An Update Recent scientific work strengthens and extends the arguments in Ian Angus’s pathbreaking book on fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth System I’ve been pleased and deeply honored by the international response to my book Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016). […]
Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene
Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene Examples of how human societies are changing the planet abound – from building roads and houses, clearing forests for agriculture and digging train tunnels, to shrinking the ozone layer, driving species extinct, changing the climate and acidifying the oceans. […]
Batteries, mine production, lithium and the “cobalt crunch”
Batteries, mine production, lithium and the “cobalt crunch” Growth in Li-ion batteries depends on a number of imponderables, such as how rapidly the world converts to electric vehicles, how quickly battery manufacturing capacity can be ramped up and where the electricity to power millions of EVs will come from. This post ignores these issues, concentrating […]
The Geological Society of London’s Statement on Climate Change
The Geological Society of London’s Statement on Climate Change A group of geologists have drawn my attention to the 2010/2013 Geological Society of London‘s statement on climate change and asked if I could arrange an on-line discussion about it. The lead author of the statements is Dr Colin Summerhayes who has participated as guest blogger […]
The Geological Society of London’s Statement on Climate Change
The Geological Society of London’s Statement on Climate Change A group of geologists have drawn my attention to the 2010/2013 Geological Society of London‘s statement on climate change and asked if I could arrange an on-line discussion about it. The lead author of the statements is Dr Colin Summerhayes who has participated as guest blogger […]
Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate?
Can Geology Tell Us What is Warming the Climate? On Monday this week, and rather late in the day, Dr Colin Summerhayes from the Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge University, left this lengthy comment at the end of the thread on Prof. Richard Lindzen’s post called Global Warming and the Irrelevance of Science. I wanted to respond to some of the […]
Peak Oil: One-Sentence Problem-Solving
Peak Oil: One-Sentence Problem-Solving As is still the case—unfortunately, for all of us—there remains a sizeable number of individuals, organizations, and other associations determined at all costs [literally] to preserve the primacy of fossil fuels to power us into the future. Facts: good when they can be massaged to fit the partial-truth narrative required to […]
The Anthropocene and Ozymandias
The Anthropocene and Ozymandias Much has been made lately of the so-called Anthropocene — the idea that Homo sapiens has so taken over and modified Earth that we need a new name for our geological age instead of the outmoded Holocene. One remorseless Anthropoceniac writes, ‘Nature is gone… You are living on a used planet. If this […]
Peak Oil
Peak Oil …click on the above link to read the rest of the article…
Revisiting the Shale Oil Hype: Technology versus Geology
Revisiting the Shale Oil Hype: Technology versus Geology The press has been all abuzz the past few weeks speculating on what the drop in oil prices will mean for U.S. shale oil (tight oil) production. Pundits have been falling over themselves quoting various estimates of the breakeven cost of production in this play or that, […]
