But we may have an even bigger deal in Montana and North Dakota.
How large? In an unpublished research paper he wrote while working as a geochemist at the U.S. Geological Survey, Mr. Leigh Price (who died in 2000) calculated a mean estimate of recoverable oil from Bakken at a stupendous 413 billion barrels. This compares to Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves of 267 billion barrels.
I’m liking the way this research is going.
Most striking was how the resveratrol, like calorie restriction, blocked the decline in heart function typically associated with aging, according to Tomas Prolla, a University of Wisconsin professor of genetics who helped lead the study.
As I’ve said before, I’ve lived through an awful lot of alarmism which has turned out to be exactly, totally, 180 degrees wrong (and never, once, right), which is enough to make me very skeptical of AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming). It’s too convenient a coincidence that every single thing we’re supposed to “do about it” lines up with Socialist dreams of a command and control economy.
Jonah Goldberg just posted an email from an apparent expert who has to remain anonymous (heterodoxy in this area can get you fired quickly). He sums up my main scientific objections nicely:
Global warming is happening – we are not in an ice age. Is anthropogenic global warming (AGW) happening? The data doesn’t support that case: it has been warmer in the past with less CO2; it has been colder in the past with more CO2. It is most likely that the CO2-IR system is saturated, i.e. there isn’t enough IR photons to raise the state of each CO2 molecule. The Gore-Hansen “CO2 tipping point” is physically impossible – the system would have run away to its end state long ago when the CO2 was 4000 ppm (10 times more than now and, btw, the earth was then in an ice age).
The claim that “The time scale for warming is long enough to be compatible with a decade of cooling,” is not true of the IPCC GCM ensemble predictions. They are already falsified at the 95% level.
Whether you believe these claims or not, please don’t allow the greens to “frame” the debate keep the focus on AGW, not global warming, much less climate change.
(Emphasis mine.)
This campaign season is going to get weirder before it gets less weird.
Kurzweil thinks so.
Are you depressed by the prospect of dying? Well, if you can hang on another 15 years, your life expectancy will keep rising every year faster than you’re aging. And then, before the century is even half over, you can be around for the Singularity, that revolutionary transition when humans and/or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software.
I hope he’s right. And, what’s this? Maybe I get a 13 year boost soon.
Update:
Another aging researcher (love the ambiguity of that) says it’s a matter of when, not if.
Michael Yon reports that the battle in Iraq could be essentially over by the end of this year. He emails:
Washington Post reports growing success in Basra by the Iraq security forces. Violence in Iraq is reaching an all time low, perhaps lower than at anytime in several decades. But make no mistake Iraq and it’s people have been ravaged by decades of war. Finally they are getting their chance at freedom thanks to the sacrifice of the men and women who have set them free from tyrants. With any luck, on my next trip to Iraq I will see little to no combat.
Meanwhile, there’s even good news from Afghanistan.
Missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned drones have “decapitated” the Taliban and brought the war in Afghanistan to a “tipping point”, the commander of British forces has said.
Of course, the war can still be lost, as it has been lost in England and most of Europe, but we could win significant victories in the Middle East.
Figure out what Scott McClellan did and then do the opposite.
All that aside, the revelations that you are “intrigued by Senator Obama’s message” and that you don’t know if you are a Republican anymore make me wonder if you ever had any convictions. If you were just drinking the Kool-Aid at the White House, have you now switched flavors with your newfound friends?
Update:
Bob Dole finds the outrage.
They got enough requests for a bleeped version that they made one. I guess some folks can’t handle the reality of modern campus life. It’s available on the Indoctrinate U web site.
