Cliff Ollier* takes issue with some common "misconceptions" about how ice-sheets move, and doubts many pronouncements about the “collapse” of the planet’s ice sheets.
Geoscientist 20.03 March 2010
Editor writes: A riposte to the accusations in this piece, by Prof. Mike Hambrey and other glaciologists and glacial geologists, may be found here.
In these days of ...
Michael Hambrey1, Jonathan Bamber2 Poul Christoffersen3 Neil Glasser1 Alun Hubbard1 Bryn Hubbard1 and Rob Larter4 defend their subject against unfounded accusations of "misconception" and "alarmism".
Geoscientist Online 1 April 2010
As glaciologists and glacial geologists, we respond to the article “Glaciers – science and nonsense” by Cliff Ollier in the March issue of Geosci...
Sir, The Global Warming bandwagon gathers pace and it is hardly possible to open a newspaper or turn on the TV news without another story warning us that man’s actions are causing the ice-caps to melt or hurricanes to increase in intensity. The justification usually given that the warming is anthropogenic and not natural is that there is a consensus among climate scientists who agree that it...
Lake Tanganyika is experiencing unprecedented warming as a result of anthropogenic climate change, researchers say. Sam Shead reports. Geoscientist Online 14 July 2010 Lake Tanganyika, the world’s second deepest lake, contains nearly four and a half thousand cubic miles of water. Bordered by four African countries (Burundi, DR Congo, Tanzania and Zambia) it is a massive provide...
Geoscientist 17.7 July 2007
Colin Summerhayes* takes a swipe at the warming deniers...
We live in a greenhouse world. Much of the sun’s energy is reflected back into space from the Earth’s surface as long-wave infrared radiation. While nitrogen and oxygen are transparent to this, carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour are not. They act like a blanket, absorbing some of the reflected...
The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro inspired an iconic Hemingway story, but now its dwindling icecap is being wrongly cited as proof of human-induced global warming, scientists say. Ted Nield reports...
Geoscientist Online 12 June 2007
Two researchers writing in the July-August edition of American Scientist magazine say global warming has nothing to do with the decline of Kilimanjaro's ice, and u...
(Response to letters from Howard Dewhirst, Tony Bazley, and Stephen Foster)
Dear Editor, The controversy surrounding global warming will remain until ALL the protagonists educate themselves with ALL the information about what it is and how it works. Therein lies a difficulty for geologists: much of the relevant literature comes from the worlds of atmospheric science, oceanography, and solar-terr...
Sarah Day visits the 2010 Big Bang Fair in Manchester and discovers that when communicating “climate change” science, nothing – even the terms we use, should be taken for granted.
Geoscientist 20.05 May 2010
The writing of the Geological Society’s statement on climate change is currently underway, and has caused a fair few raised eyebrows, as well as eager anticipatio...
Sir, I read your July 2014 editorial "The wages of cheap" with interest as someone who has worked for over thirty five years in the global mining industry I share your obvious anger if not your analysis.
Coal is currently cheap because we are producing more coal than the world currently consumes, we have record production from Australia and a rise in exports from the Indonesia and the USA and the...
Prof. Paul Pearson (Cardiff University) brought the BA a steamy tale of rainforests in London and asks - could they be coming back? Ted Nield reports from Liverpool. Geoscientist Online 8 September 2008 Geologists have long known that the Earth’s past climate has been much warmer than it is today. The Eocene epoch (c. 55 to 35 million years ago) was such a time. The rocks laid ...