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Sir, Stephen W Foster's letter (Dec/Jan Geoscientist) conflates several issues. First, it is true that not all members can subscribe to all the Society's position stateme...
Sir, I write to contradict Stephen Foster regarding the greenhouse effect and global warming. It is rather unfortunate that he chose to base his arguments on an extensively criticized paper by Gerlich and Tscheuschner. Not being a physicist myself I do not want to go into the details, but I would advise those who want to delve further into the matter to simply Google ‘Critique of Gerlich and...
As this month’s feature articles demonstrate, whether in the UK or the USA, the PR problems associated with shale gas are not primarily geological. They are, though, comparable to every other energy-related PR problem. Everybody wants energy, as much of it as possible, and cheap. And nobody wants it to be generated - or its feedstocks extracted - by any method whatever, anywhere at all, a...
Sir, with reference to the letter by Martin Lack (below), the problem with his approach is that it looks at only part of the global warming - or to be more precise increase in carbon dioxide problem.
At present the main thrust of the renewable resources lobby is to maximise the use of wind power whether on or offshore. Use of this technology requires the construction of a large number of gas-fired...
Climate change has happened before in the geological past. Much work has focused on the Quaternary but, Jonathan Cowie* asks, should we now be looking more at the Eocene and Toarcian?
Geoscientist 17.8 August 2007
We have long known that the Earth has previously been warmed, and cooled, by changes in atmospheric carbon-based and other greenhouses gases. Considerable attention has in recent ...
What can midges tell us about climate change? Ted Nield at the BA finds out more than he ever thought possible about the flies that bite. Geoscientist Online 8 September 2008 Chironomidae are a family of two-winged flies (Diptera) that are closely related to mosquitoes and biting midges. However, unlike their cousins, who can be a scourge for any one taking a holiday in Scotlan...
An alternative approach is to look for examples in more ancient earth history, of similar phenomena to the present: that is, of sudden, massive outbursts of greenhouse gases into a world that is already warm. At least two have been identified, in the Toarcian Age of the Jurassic Period, some 180 million years ago, and in the early Eocene Epoch, around 55 million years ago. In both of these...
Inadequate science communication risks enabling failure to limit climate change, writes Hugh Richards
Richards, H., Face facts on fossil fuels. Geoscientist 29 (11), 9, 2019
https://doi.org/doi: 10.1144/geosci2019-059, Download the pdf here
Is the UK geoscientific community about to miss a unique opportunity to make a substantive contribution to securing a stabilised Earth system with well belo...
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...
The Society’s research funds paid out £19,000 in 2011, reports Dawne Riddle.
Geoscientist Online 60 April 2011
Following recommendations from the Research Grants Committee, Council agreed at its April meeting to make 15 research awards in 2011 – one fewer than last year – from 36 applications (down two on last year).
The total payout in 2011 however was £19,...