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Category Archives: Palaeoclimatology
Troubling times indeed
This mini-post has been prompted by a recent post on LearningFromDogs.com, entitled Troubling Times. I often wish I were not so well-informed because, whereas power without knowledge is very dangerous, knowledge without power is very frustrating. However, as Leonardo Di … Continue reading
Will it matter 100 years from now?
Here in the UK, I have spent a lot of time trying to decide how to vote in the Referendum on our membership of the EU. Working away from home, I had to apply for a postal vote. Having sent … Continue reading
It’s ‘Game Over’ for Fossil Fuels
I’d really like to think oil companies will soon admit the game is up: The extraction of fossil fuels is going to become increasingly financially uneconomic and socially unacceptable. After all, it is almost 4 months since Mark Carney said … Continue reading
From Noah to Nordhaus via Inhofe
US Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) is a climate change sceptic primarily because he believes God has promised not to flood the Earth again; and the rainbow in the sky tells him it must be true. Such ideologically-driven wilful blindness is … Continue reading
Posted in Civilisation, Climate Science, Cognitive Dissonance, Denial, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Mass Extinctions, Palaeoclimatology, Psychology
Tagged Antarctica, Archaeology, Ark, Comet, glaciers, Gobekli Tepe, Graham Hancock, History, James Inhofe, James Painter, Noah, Sphinx, Stephan Lewandowsky, William Nordhaus, Younger Dryas
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It’s the carbon intensity, stupid!
Forget the ‘War on Terror’, Obama’s #CleanPowerPlan rightly declares ‘War on Climate’ (i.e. #ActOnClimate + #WarOnCoal). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYXyYFzP4Lc Explanatory note: Obama may highlight coal but, given that climate change and ocean acidification are consequences of pumping geospheric carbon* into the biosphere, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Computer Models, Environment, IPCC, Palaeoclimatology
Tagged Clean Power Plan, IPCC, President Obama, USA, White House
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Occam’s Razor works for me!
‘The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches From The Front Line’ by Dr Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology at Pennsylvania State University, was recently published in paperback. I decided to purchase a copy. Here is my review of the … Continue reading
Why the World Bank says we must decarbonise now
Must the World Bank now be added to the supposed list of environmentally-alarmist institutions seeking to use the perceived threat of climate change as a pretext for imposing global authoritarian government via the United Nations? This is essentially the position … Continue reading
I think it is time to start dealing with reality
The text below is reproduced from a comment I have just posted on the Climate Slate website. The comment itself was prompted by my having recently watched the movie ‘Chasing Ice’, conceived and produced by James Balog and Jeff Orlowski. … Continue reading
The carbon cycle and climate change
I have appended below the introduction to an excellent article on this subject, written by John Mason (part of the Skeptical Science team), as posted on the Climate State blog yesterday. If the link between geology, plate tectonics, and climate … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate Science, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Palaeoclimatology
Tagged carbon cycle, ClimateState, Geology, John Mason, rock cycle, skeptical science, weathering
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Stone Age Tsunami! Whatever next?
Tony Robinson is probably best known to most people (over the age of 40 at least) for playing the character of ‘Baldrick’, alongside Rowan Atkinson, in the Blackadder series of brilliant comedy series in the 1980s. However, since then, he has … Continue reading
Anthropocene Reality 