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Al Gore's 2nd Really Inconvenient Truth
Can you imagine the brouhaha from the climate change evangelists and climate change industry over the following story?
NASA find error in US climate data and 1998, not 1934 was the hottest year on record!
read more »I love my job (sometimes)
I love my job (sometimes). This has recently been my 'office' (in between the rain showers).
So has this ...
read more »Boudica's Earthquake
Interesting article in the July BBC History Magazine about a possible Colchester, Essex earthquake at the time of Boudica in the first century AD.
Roman historians Tacitus and Dio Cassius note that just before Boudica's revolt the statue of the goddess Victory in Colchester (then the political and religious capital of Roman Britain) rotated and fell over. 'Otherworldly groans' were heard and the sea 'turned blood red'. Boudica's followers interpreted this as divine approval for the rebellion and the Romans saw it as a bad omen.
read more »BBC Website Geology Errors II
More geology errors from the BBC ...
This time from their Science and Nature - Hot Topics - Natural Disasters section on Earthquakes
read more »Geology errors on Children's BBC
I've just come across a page on the BBC Children's website 'explaining' volcanoes [What causes volcanoes?] and it is full of basic errors of geology. If the BBC can't get simple facts right for children what hope do we have in creating a proper understanding of our planet and our subject. I appreciate that they have to keep things simple for children but that is no excuse for fundamental errors of fact!
Kent Earthquake
The Kent earthquake comes as no real surprise to me. This area is one of the most active areas for large earthquakes in the UK, albeit with long return times. The most significant events were on 21st May 1382 and 6th April 1580, both estimated at Local Magnitude 5.8. The latter caused much damage in the southeast of England and is one of Britain's most fatal earthquakes with two apprentices being killed by falling masonry in a church in Newgate.
read more »World's Longest Tunnel - My Contribution
The BBC are reporting details of the
World's longest tunnel being constructed underneath the Alps. I probably had a (very small) part in its construction.
The Really Inconvenient Truth
The really inconvenient truth about CO2 levels and global warming is that the temperature change occurs about 800 years before the change in CO2 levels. The simple interpretation of this is that CO2 levels are an effect, not the cause of climate change.
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