Due to recent technological advances, North Carolina now finds itself on the verge of joining many other states as a producer of natural gas. The cleanest fossil fuel, natural gas is now the source of almost 25% of our nation’s total energy. Gas is not only needed by households, businesses and industries, it is the [...]

I’m a denier for several reasons. There is no substantive evidence that the planet has warmed significantly or that any significant warming will occur in the future. If any warming does occur, it likely will be concentrated at higher latitudes and therefore be beneficial. Climate research has largely degenerated into pathological science, and the coverage [...]

REPRINTED FROM ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2011) — One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson is clear — microbes matter! Despite vast differences in the impacted marine ecosystems [...]

Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” is widely employed in the petroleum industry to release natural gas and oil from compact rocks such as shale and “tight” sandstones. This technology has blossomed into a major issue in some regions of the country due to the efforts of environmental organizations to demonize the practice. The process of fracking [...]

Over the last few years, a document has been floating around the web quoting a Forbes article which claims that, “the Bakken discovery is the largest oil discovery in the US since Prudhoe Bay (1968), and has the potential make the US energy independent.” The article also claims that, “…beneath the surface of the Rocky [...]

So, exactly what controls the price of oil? The standard reply is, the “world market.” If you are satisfied with that answer, then read no farther. But, for most of us, that answer isn’t sufficient; we want a better understanding. We know that oil is a globally traded commodity and priced in US Dollars, but [...]

Ongoing political turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, where the bulk of the world’s exportable oil resides, highlights the impact of uncertainty on world oil prices. Oil prices often spike out of control during threatened or actual supply interruptions that occur as a result of war or terrorism or other politically destabilizing events. [...]

“All about the scares, scams, junk, panics, and flummery cooked up by the media, politicians, bureaucrats, so-called scientists and others who try to confuse you with wrong numbers.” John Brignell, Ph.D. Editor’s Note: Our appreciation to John Brignell of www.numberwatch.co.uk for permission to publish his list of “things” attributed to Anthropogenic (Human Caused) Global Warming [...]