Sir, The March issue of Geoscientist contained a review of “How to Get Expelled from School: a Guide to Climate Change for Pupils, Parents and Punters” (Connor Court, 2011), the latest outpouring from the pen of Australian economic geologist Professor Ian Plimer, an Honorary Fellow of the Society. That book is a sequel to his 500-page blockbuster “Heaven and Earth: Global Warming...
Fossilized shark teeth reveal a fresher, more isolated Palaeogene North Sea, writes Sarah Day.
Geoscientist Online, 25 August 2009
A team of German and British scientists have used fossilised shark teeth to reconstruct the climate of the North Sea during the Palaeogene period, between 40 and 60 million years ago. The results suggest that the North Sea was for a brief period isolated from surro...
The Society should set an example by supporting the campaign for a 2050 decarbonisation target, argues Martin Lack
Lack, M., Join the decarbonisation bandwagon. Geoscientist 29 (3), 9, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1144/geosci2019-014; Download the pdf here
I was very disappointed when the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) banned an ExxonMobil advert for investment in algal biofuels some years ago....
Bob Ward thinks a recent Geoscientist review gave a controversial climate-sceptic book too easy a ride.
Geoscientist 20.10 October 2010
It was somewhat startling to see in August’s Geoscientist a glowing review of The Hockey Stick Illusion – Global warming and the Corruption of Science. Joe Brannan (an oil industry geologist) heaped praise on author Andrew Montford for produ...
How will the geosciences contribute to achieving a sustainable energy supply in the 21st Century and beyond?
The geosciences have a crucial role to play in achieving a sustainable energy supply in this century and beyond. Current energy supply is far from sustainable with the vast majority of energy globally supplied by non-renewable fossil fuels, which not only are finite in supply, but their co...
Patrick Keiller, The Robinson Institute
Geoscientist 22.05 June 2012
In The Robinson Institute, Patrick Keiller invites us to walk the length and breadth of Tate Britain’s airy Duveen Gallery to recreate a journey through Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire undertaken by Robinson, a fictitious ‘scholar of landscape’. In this meditation on British landscape we encount...
Bristol University scientist discovers rainforest collapse at time of Carboniferous global warming. Could the Amazon go the same way? Ted Nield at the BA finds out. Geoscientist Online 8 September 2008 Dr Howard Falcon Lang of the University of Bristol has some alarming news for rainforests – loggers may not be their biggest problem. New studies of the way in which the world&rs...
Geoscientist 17.8 August 2007
Iain Bartholomew, Chairman of the Corporate Affiliates and Vice President of the Geological Society, looks to the future.
We are now already half way through the Geological Society’s Bicentennial Year - the year in which the Society has launched its strategy of serving science and profession. One of the most important parts of the strategy is to ensure that t...
News and Views from AGU Fall Meeting 2010, by Fabian B. Wadsworth*
Geoscientist Online Special 21.03 April 2011
Volcanic activity could increase in volume and frequency over the next centuries as a result of receding volumes of ice on the Earth’s surface. Because volcanoes occur both at high altitudes (e.g. New Zealand, Andean mountains) and high latitudes (e.g. Iceland, Antarcti...
21 July 2015
In the run up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 21 scheduled for December 2015, 24 of the UK's foremost academic institutions, including the Geological Society have published a joint Climate Communiqué calling on national governments to take immediate action if they want to avert the serious risks posed by climate change. The document states that to tackle cli...