From December 29, 2022
How is Harvey Yates so sure he’ll find gas or oil when he drills in Valencia County?
He’s most certainly relying on seismology, geological mapping and possibly magnetometers, all developed by scientists over the last century.
For him to then drill, Mr. Yates depends on material scientists manipulating atomic structures that he cannot see with his naked eye to forge drill bits that can tear through the hardest rock.
Mr. Yates also entrusts the safety of his drilling team and his profits to scientistic understanding the physical and chemical properties of the different layers of rock below, the chemistry of fracking fluid, the fluid dynamics of oil, gas and water.
Harvey Yates does not doubt these scientists and engineers. Yet somehow when these same principles of physics, chemistry, and fluid dynamics are applied in the 200-year-old discipline of climate science they become a “religion.”
When they demonstrate the impacts of the fossil fuel industry on the heath and well-being of people and ecosystems upon which we all depend, they are suddenly not a “proven science.” Tell that to the people whose livelihoods and indeed way of life have been wiped out by the Hermit’s Peak Fire, Mr. Yates.
Tell that to the taxpayers who are shelling out $1 billion to pipe water to Clovis and a few other small towns running out of water. Climate change is real. It is here. It is caused by fossil fuels.
What you do in Valencia County, Mr. Yates, even on private property far away from any town, affects people everywhere. Fluid dynamics and atmospheric science tell me that.
Original source can be found here.
