This document discusses how recent increases in earthquakes in the Midwest United States may be linked to gas and oil production and wastewater disposal practices. Research suggests earthquakes have risen in areas where methane production and fracking have increased. Specifically, quakes rose along the Colorado-New Mexico border following growth in methane production. However, a 5.6 magnitude quake in Oklahoma was likely too strong to be linked to gas and oil activity. Most of the quakes were around magnitude 3, which can be felt but cause little damage.
Conclusions
Ocean Mixed Layer Temperatures for both models are very similar, showing that the ocean conditions for the LGM and future climate underwent the same conditions at some point, could lead to colder temperatures
With this data alone available, we must infer that there could be a climate change due to melting of ice into the ocean, until there is more data to back up the hypothesis
EdGCM limits the amount of information we can compare
○ Only 100 years of predicted models
○ Not as many parameters available to model
Conclusions
Ocean Mixed Layer Temperatures for both models are very similar, showing that the ocean conditions for the LGM and future climate underwent the same conditions at some point, could lead to colder temperatures
With this data alone available, we must infer that there could be a climate change due to melting of ice into the ocean, until there is more data to back up the hypothesis
EdGCM limits the amount of information we can compare
○ Only 100 years of predicted models
○ Not as many parameters available to model
An article appearing in the Ohio State Law Journal Furthermore about the difficulties in proving water contamination from shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking). Written by Keith Hall, director of the Louisiana Mineral Law Institute and an assistant professor of law at Louisiana State University. Hall recommends states adopt baseline well water testing and the use of Lone Pine orders to speed along contamination cases.
Read the passages below and write an essay that addresses the follow.docxangelicar11
Read the passages below and write an essay that addresses the following:
What is the position in each passage?
What evidence or reasons are given in support of each position?
Which position is more convincing and why?
Do no additional research on the topics other than using a dictionary. [NEW]
The Controversy: Does fracking contribute to global warming?
Passage 1. Pro: from "Fracking Contributes to Global Warming" by Louis W. Allstadt
The fracking that's going on right now is the real wake-up call on just what extreme lengths are
required to pull oil or gas out of the ground now that most of the conventional reservoirs have
been exploited—at least those that are easy to access.
First of all you have to look at what is conventional oil and gas. That was pretty much anything
that was produced until around 2000. It's basically a process of drilling down through a cap rock,
an impervious rock that has trapped oil and gas beneath it. And once you're into that reservoir—
which is really not a void, it’s porous rock—the natural pressure of the gas will push up the gas
and oil.
Now what's happened is that the prospect of finding more of those conventional reservoirs,
particularly on land and in the places that have been heavily explored like the US and Europe
and the Middle East just is very, very small. And the companies have pretty much acknowledged
that. All of them talk about the need to go to either nonconventional shale or tight sand drilling
or to go into deeper and deeper waters or to go into really hostile Arctic regions and possibly
Antarctic regions.
Both the horizontal drilling and fracturing have been around for a long time. The industry will
tell you this over and over again—they've been around for 60 years, things like that. That is
correct. What's different is the volume of fracking fluids and the volume of flowback that occurs
in these wells. It is 50 to 100 times more than what was used in the conventional wells.
The other [difference] is that the rock above the target zone is not necessarily impervious the
way it was in the conventional wells. And to me that last point is at least as big as the volume.
The industry will tell you that the mile or two between the zone that's being fracked is not going
to let anything come up.
But there are already cases where the methane gas has made it up into the aquifers and
atmosphere. Sometimes through old well bores, sometimes through natural fissures in the rock.
What we don't know is just how much gas is going to come up over time. It's a point most people
haven't gotten. It's not just what's happening today. We're opening up channels for the gas to
creep up to the surface and into the atmosphere. And methane is a much more potent greenhouse
gas in the short term—less than 100 years—than carbon dioxide.
Source Citation
Allstadt, Louis W. "Fracking Contributes to Global Warming."
Natural Gas
, edited by Dedria Bry.
Energy in Depth, a group backed by the gas industry, suggests some focal points for the "Gasland" sequel planned by filmmaker and anti-fracking activist Josh Fox.
More:
http://www.energyindepth.org/
http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/
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An article appearing in the Ohio State Law Journal Furthermore about the difficulties in proving water contamination from shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing (or fracking). Written by Keith Hall, director of the Louisiana Mineral Law Institute and an assistant professor of law at Louisiana State University. Hall recommends states adopt baseline well water testing and the use of Lone Pine orders to speed along contamination cases.
Read the passages below and write an essay that addresses the follow.docxangelicar11
Read the passages below and write an essay that addresses the following:
What is the position in each passage?
What evidence or reasons are given in support of each position?
Which position is more convincing and why?
Do no additional research on the topics other than using a dictionary. [NEW]
The Controversy: Does fracking contribute to global warming?
Passage 1. Pro: from "Fracking Contributes to Global Warming" by Louis W. Allstadt
The fracking that's going on right now is the real wake-up call on just what extreme lengths are
required to pull oil or gas out of the ground now that most of the conventional reservoirs have
been exploited—at least those that are easy to access.
First of all you have to look at what is conventional oil and gas. That was pretty much anything
that was produced until around 2000. It's basically a process of drilling down through a cap rock,
an impervious rock that has trapped oil and gas beneath it. And once you're into that reservoir—
which is really not a void, it’s porous rock—the natural pressure of the gas will push up the gas
and oil.
Now what's happened is that the prospect of finding more of those conventional reservoirs,
particularly on land and in the places that have been heavily explored like the US and Europe
and the Middle East just is very, very small. And the companies have pretty much acknowledged
that. All of them talk about the need to go to either nonconventional shale or tight sand drilling
or to go into deeper and deeper waters or to go into really hostile Arctic regions and possibly
Antarctic regions.
Both the horizontal drilling and fracturing have been around for a long time. The industry will
tell you this over and over again—they've been around for 60 years, things like that. That is
correct. What's different is the volume of fracking fluids and the volume of flowback that occurs
in these wells. It is 50 to 100 times more than what was used in the conventional wells.
The other [difference] is that the rock above the target zone is not necessarily impervious the
way it was in the conventional wells. And to me that last point is at least as big as the volume.
The industry will tell you that the mile or two between the zone that's being fracked is not going
to let anything come up.
But there are already cases where the methane gas has made it up into the aquifers and
atmosphere. Sometimes through old well bores, sometimes through natural fissures in the rock.
What we don't know is just how much gas is going to come up over time. It's a point most people
haven't gotten. It's not just what's happening today. We're opening up channels for the gas to
creep up to the surface and into the atmosphere. And methane is a much more potent greenhouse
gas in the short term—less than 100 years—than carbon dioxide.
Source Citation
Allstadt, Louis W. "Fracking Contributes to Global Warming."
Natural Gas
, edited by Dedria Bry.
Energy in Depth, a group backed by the gas industry, suggests some focal points for the "Gasland" sequel planned by filmmaker and anti-fracking activist Josh Fox.
More:
http://www.energyindepth.org/
http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/
Dot Earth on Fox: http://j.mp/dotGasland
An open letter from Energy in Depth to filmmaker Josh Fox with recommendations on how he might correct the inaccuracies of the original Gasland in his new film. It's a devasating critique of the original movie and the multitude of inaccuracies and claims it makes. We're pretty sure Josh won't take EID's advice since he's got a closed mind when it comes to the drilling issue.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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2. A recent survey suggests that
gas and oil production may
be the cause in such a high
increase of earthquakes
around the Midwest area of
our nation.
The increase in earthquakes
was said to be man made.
Along the state line of
Colorado and New Mexico
methane production started
there.
Around the time methane
production grew in that
area, there was a large
increase in earthquakes.
3. Research has also said that
other earthquakes have
been linked to huge amounts
of leftover wastewater being
dumped deep into the earth.
Another idea of why these
small earthquakes are
happening could be due to
fracking.
Fracking is short for
hydraulic fracturing, which
is the process when rocks
below the earth’s surface
are opened and widened by
injecting chemicals and
liquids at high pressure.
An earthquake that occured
in Oklahoma was measured
at 5.6, which was said to be
too strong to have been
linked to oil and gas.
4. Many of the earthquakes that happened in the United States
were around magnitude of 3.
Level 3 earthquakes are only mild and do not destroy many
things.
Level 3 earthquakes usually just slightly rock parked cars or
could be felt slightly by people in the upper floors of buildings.
