This letter, to Dr Benny Peiser of GWPF, has been reproduced here by agreement. It was revised after initial submission on March 4. Editor
Dear Dr Peiser, Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the critique by Drs Carter and Courtillot of my note of 14/2/13 on “The Geological Perspective of Global Warming”. I initially wrote to you to draw attention to Geological Society of London’s statem...
Sir, In response to John Gahan’s comments of August 21, the Geological Society's Statement on Climate Change was very careful to exclude all comment on the merits of climate models produced by the meteorological and climatological science communities, because they are not in our sphere of expertise. Our statement was based on a careful appraisal of the geological evidence for the role ...
Dear Editor, With reference to the Vostok ice core, Dr E means has made the following observation: “Temperature at Vostok fell by 4.5˚C without any assistance or amplification from falling CO2. [between 130000 and 112000 years ago]. The idea that variations in CO2 amplify orbital effects is basically disproven by this data…. all of the CO2 and CH4 variance in Vostok can be explained b...
Channel Tunnel Rail Link exposes clues to global warming 55 million years ago, reports Adler deWind
Geoscientist Online 10 October 2007
The Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), a period of intense global warming about 55 million years ago, has been attributed to a rapid rise in greenhouse gas levels. Uniquely the new channel tunnel rail link, recently opened, cut through a section of ro...
Hutton’s Arse: 3 billion years of extraordinary geology in Scotland’s Northern Highlands
Malcolm Rider
Published by: Rider-French
Publication date: 2005
ISBN: 0-9541906-1-0
List price: £16.99
214 pp
www.huttonsarse.com
However much you may (or may not) have difficulty with the main title, this book is full of excellent writing from Malcolm Rider, a geologist who is wel...
Climate Change and Groundwater
Geological Society Special Publication No. 288
W Dragoni and B S Sukhija (eds)
Published by: The Geological Society of London
Publication date: April 2008
ISBN: 978-1-86239-235-9
List price: £75.00
192 pp
www.geolsoc.org.uk/bookshop
Climate change, or its apparent pseudonym of global warming, seems to be in newspapers and news bulletins on a daily basis. ...
A group of researchers at the University of Leeds has suggested that storing carbon dioxide deep below the Earth’s surface could be a safe and long-term solution to one of the planet’s major contributors to climate change. Emily Baldwin reports.
Geoscientist Online 11 December 2007
For seven years, in the Miller oilfield in the North Sea, BP has been pumping seawater into the po...
Sir David King accentuated the positive in the Sir Peter Kent Lecture 2010, “Climate Change as a Global Shifting Force”. Ted Nield was there.
You can now view this presentation online.
Geoscientist Online 12 January 2010
Ten thousand years ago, global warming released the Earth from the grip of the Ice Age, allowing our species to expand over the globe. Now, the result o...
Isotopic studies of Eocene mammal teeth reveal a world of semi-darkness, where huge prehistoric mammals roamed a lush and swampy Arctic, writes Sarah Day.
Geoscientist online, 5 June 2009
It’s difficult to imagine the Arctic as anything other than a world of ice and polar bears. During the Eocene epoch, however, alligators, aquatic turtles, giant tortoises, snakes and even fly...
Inadequate science communication risks enabling failure to limit climate change, writes Hugh Richards
Is the UK geoscientific community about to miss a unique opportunity to make a substantive contribution to securing a stabilised Earth system with well below 2°C of global heating? I refer to the hosting in Glasgow in November 2020 of COP26 (arguably the most crucial UN climate summit thus far...