Dear Editor, I support the proposal by Dr D’Olier that the society should explore members’ views on climate change, but not through a petition with a particular agenda. Several dozen concerned scientists (the majority Fellows or ex-Fellows of this Society) wrote an open letter to the President on 1st June 2018 requesting a review of the Society’s Position Statements on Climate Ch...
Revd. Dr Mark Betson FGS* explores some things that the Church and geoscience have in common…
With a number of articles in Geoscientist discussing science and religion and, more specifically, science and the Church, I thought I should say something about what the Church of England (CoE) does to engage congregations (and beyond) in trying to relate what they hear about Earth science with th...
As geologist and science writer Nina Morgan discovers, attitudes about climate change are changing
As the world celebrates the signing of the historic agreement in Paris in December 2015, which sets out a global action plan to limit global warming to well below 2°C, it is sobering to recall that as recently as the 1980s, the UK Department of Energy (DoE) was extolling the advantages a 2°C ...
Sir, In his item “Down-under doubts”, (Geoscientist, January 2010) Joe McCall has called for a statement of Australian scientists’ “doubts about climate change models” and for “a concise reply from an acknowledged expert”. I do not think this can realistically be achieved, but it is good that this issue has been raised.
As an on-line perusal of The Austral...
Sir, At the risk of still further muddying the waters of the discussions about the origin of global warming I should like to express my disappointment at the standard of the arguments being used, especially by "believers".
I do not have the technical knowledge necessary to understand the three dimensional fluid-dynamics and thermodynamics of the atmosphere which seems to control our weather, or of...
Sir, Geoscientist has long been remarkably open to airing what may be regarded as "minority viewpoints" - for example, as regards the existence (or not) of mantle plumes, the coincidence (or not) of the Chicxulub crater with the K-T impact layer and end-Cretaceous extinctions, and the seriousness (or not) of anthropogenic global warming and ancillary effects such as sea level rise. This has certai...
Sir, I write in response to the letter of Prof Sumerhayes of 17. 7. 14, with particular reference to his comments on solar radiance and temperatures. In both of the cases quoted by Prof Summerhayes, he has chosen to ignore evidence that flatly contradicts, if not outright disproves, his arguments, and raises serious questions about the use and reliability of some proxy data sets to reconstruct pas...
The Geological Society hosted this lecture on 23 March 2011 as part of Climate Week (www.climateweek.com).
Earth’s climate has been controlled throughout its 4.5 billion-year history by a wide range of natural environmental processes. These processes include volcanism, the weathering and erosion of rocks on land and in the oceans, variations in Earth’s orbit around the sun and in the ...
The geological record contains abundant evidence of the ways in which Earth’s climate has changed in the past. That evidence is highly relevant to understanding how it may change in the future, and the likely impacts of anthropogenic carbon emissions.
Joint Learned Societies' Climate Communiqué
In the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference COP 21 scheduled for December 2015, 24 of...
A group of scientists working on synthesising new anion receptors have accidently stumbled on a bowl shaped molecule that suggests new techniques for dealing with atmospheric CO2, writes Sarah Day.
Geoscientist Online, 17 July 2009
In the search for novel approaches to dealing with global warming, 'advances may occur fortuitously', according to University of Maryland's Professor ...