It's all over the internet; a spate of recent minor earthquakes in Ohio is leading to charges (including by some scientists) that human activity is at fault.  In Youngstown Ohio, brine wastewater from mining operations was injected into deep wells to be disposed of, and is being blamed for a series of small Christmas earthquakes. The brine water?  Drumroll, please......from oil fracking! But there is no rigorous science behind the claim -- just correlation, which as any first year student of physical science knows is not causality. Fracking is destroying the entire plan of the Gang Green, those environmental zealots; it makes the move to alternative fuels and energy poverty unnecessary, since we are swimming in oil just waiting to be fracked.   Gang Green had to find a way to demonize fracking, and have been kicking this earthquake idea around for some time. Now that there was an earthquake or two in Ohio, they have what they need to blame fracking and scare...(Read Full Post)