This is a guest post by WebHubbleTelescope.

Sometimes I get a bit freaked out by the ferocity and doggedness of the so-called global warming deniers. The latest outpost for these contrarians, climateaudit.org, shows lots of activity, with much gnashing over numbers and statistics, with the end result that they get a science blog of the year award (a 1^st place tie actually). Fortunately, the blog remains open to commenting from both sides of the GW argument, which if nothing else makes it a worthy candidate for some type of award. Even though I don't agree with the nitpicking approach of the auditors, they do provide peer review for strengthening one's arguments and theories. I can only hope that this post on oil depletion modeling attracts the same ferocity from the peak oil deniers out there. Unfortunately, we don't have a complementary "oil depletion audit" site organized yet (though Stuart and Khebab, et al, seem to be working on it--see yesterday's post), so we have to rely on the devil's advocates on TOD to attempt to rip my Application of the Dispersive Discovery Model to shreds.  Not required, but see my previous post Finding Needles in a Haystack to prime your pump.