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Exaggerations and false predictions are good; truth is bad – about peak oil research

By / Leave a Comment / 10 February 2015

Summary:  One reason Americans observation-orientation-decision-action loop is broken:  we love people to give us bad information.  Even outright lies are acceptable, if interesting or flattery.  As in the media trope “he was wrong, but made us think.”  Today’s example is the late Matthew Simmons. Christopher Helman, a Bureau Chief for Forbes explains in “Matt Simmons, …

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Let’s seal the Gulf oil well by using atomic weapons!

By / Leave a Comment / 12 November 2017

Summary:  Now that BP’s third and fourth attempts appear to have failed (the “top kill” and “junk shots”), discussion turns to darker methods of sealing the Deepwater Horizon well.  Most of our journalists and Internet experts get the story wrong.  Often grossly so.  But the truth is available, for people who exercise care when selecting their sources …

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Science: “Gulf Spill Big But Not Enormous, Yet”

By / Leave a Comment / 2 June 2013

Summary: Coverage of the Deepwater Horizon has moved beyond exaggeration into outright lies, fed by the hysteria of special interest groups and the media.   But the truth is out there.  The truth is bad enough. It’s unprecedented!  See this compilation of “unprecedenteds”.  But it’s not (see list of larger spills here). Even better are the way …

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Poor peak oil research, more evidence of a serious problem with America’s vision

By / 9 Comments / 29 June 2014

This post briefly reviews a new presentation by investment banker Matthew Simmons, author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (2005).  He is one of the best known of the experts warning about peak oil.  IMO he is one of the best of them.  As this analysis shows, that …

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