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The good and the bad of the CRU email scandal

If you follow the slightly not mainstream media, then it is hard to have missed the news that emails from the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit have been released with some of the more damning content being distrubuted quite widely on the web.
[Ed's note: Actually, do visit the original list of emails and [...]

Nimble CO2 versus plate tectonics

It has been achingly and painstakingly documented by geologists that over an incredibly long time, first Africa broke off from Antarctica about 200 million years ago, then India ripped away at a blistering pace around 100 million years ago… then Australia began to separate from Antarctica around 70 million years ago. About this time, the [...]

Geologists are so…. earthy

Most people don’t think of geologists as environmentalists, in fact at best, think of them as weird people who like rocks. Geologists tend to be so… earthy! Down to earth… practical and mind-numbingly realistic. Geologist also belong to that rare subset of scientists who get out there and spend most of their time outside, away [...]

Part II: Who are we saving the planet for?

The first part of this series tried to find out why there is so much hysteria over global warming – what dire consequences from global warming will end life as we know it…???
This second part looks at some of the ’solutions’ being proposed seem to be ‘reduce global warming at all costs’ – where ‘all [...]

What’s white and fluffy and wants you for lunch?

A polar bear of course!
Environmentalists won a victory this week – they jumped in their RV’s, 4WDs, SUV’s and CUV’s, stepped on planes, plugged in laptops, pressed the flesh, and they won. Yes, they waved their hands in truimph from their their CO2 emitting vehicles over the fact they got the big bad US government [...]

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