How to fuel all of the people all of the time
Geoscientist Online 18.5.2007
A packed lecture theatre heard Glen Cayley (Vice President; Shell Global Exploration) deliver the fifth lecture in the Shell London Lecture Series for the general public. Dawne Riddle was there…
Society President Richard Fortey, introducing the lecturer, set the scene:
"We must all be aware by now that, a...
Current carbon-driven global warming has its palaeo-analogues. Jonathan Cowie notes that a forthcoming Geological Society symposium will address some key questions.
Geoscientist 20.05 May 2010
There is huge political and societal concern over, as well as scientific interest in, current climate change and global warming. It comes as something of a surprise, therefore, to discover that w...
Current carbon-driven global warming has its palaeo-analogues. Jonathan Cowie notes that a forthcoming Geological Society symposium hopes to address some key questions.
Geoscientist Online May 2010
It goes without saying that there is huge political and societal concern over, as well as scientific interest in, current climate change and global warming. Therefore it comes as something o...
The response of the marine forests i.e. the vast blooms of phytoplankton to future high levels of atmospheric CO2 is crucial to understanding whether the marine biological pump will amplify or hinder future global warming. Recent evidence from rapidly accumulating sediments implies that some species of phytoplankton, which make exquisite limestone shells, the coccolithophores are increasing their ...
Sir, With respect to Professor Selley, he is an oil exploration geologist by vocation. Therefore, although not surprised, I am very disappointed by his woefully incomplete critique of Oil Shale exploration in Geoscientist this month. Furthermore, I do not much care for his attempt at humour over what is such a serious subject.
Oil Shale exploration is a dangerously flawed strategy for the same rea...
The Geological Society has prepared a position statement on climate change, focusing specifically on the geological evidence. A drafting group was convened, with the aim of producing a clear and concise summation, accessible to a general audience, of the scientific certainties and uncertainties; as well as including references to further sources of information.
The drafting group met on 18 Feb...
Sir, It was good to see an editorial and 'Soapbox' article in the November 2017 edition of Geoscientist that raise the profile of carbon capture and [geological] storage/disposal (CCS).
Bryan Lovell’s Soapbox concludes: “We geologists have been set the challenge of finding adequate safe storage for carbon dioxide … We have seldom had a more important job to do.”&nbs...
Sir, Edward Jones, in his article, Towards a ‘moral geology’, (Geoscientist 25.10, November 2015) opines: “My only solution to this [problem of human-produced CO2 leading to climate change] is that we should not take any more oil out of the ground.”
His solution to the problem is not morally well thought-out. Assume that the World’s Grand Pooh-Bah existed and followe...
Fossil drainage system reveals rapid ancient uplift and subsidence strongly suggesting that convection currents in the mantle were responsible. Monique Tsang reports.
Geoscientist Online 3 November 2011
Geologists have known for a long time about a mysterious landscape buried under two kilometres of ocean sediments west of the Shetland and Orkney Islands. They suspected that an upwelling mantle pl...
Jan Zalasiewicz*, Tony Bazley** and the Stratigraphy Commission are exercised about a possible eruption of Young Earth Creationism at a World Heritage Site in Northern Ireland
Geoscientist 18.4 April 2008
The Giant’s Causeway is one of the geological wonders of this planet, formed from lava erupted some 60 million years ago, and now marvellously sculpted by ice, by the weather and b...