The words are attributed to Sir Thomas Sprat, the founder of the Royal Society. Cited inBuckland (2013, 16).The Scale of Realism149 “human”the measure of all past geological transformation; not the human as adisruptive geological agent conceived by the term Anthropocene, but the species...
The quote "logarithmic plots are a device of the devil" is attributed to Richter. Richard Mourdock Richard Earl Mourdock (born October 8, 1951) is an American politician who served as treasurer of the state of Indiana from 2007 to 2014. Running with the support of the Tea Party movement,...
“What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.” I thin...
an idiot, and ignorant of the basic laws of physics, catastrophism seems to be strictly linked to conspirationism, so people have been writing that I cannot tell the truth because I am blackmailed by the powers that be (no, really, someone wrote exactly that!)....
As for the extinction paper, surely it can be attributed to some chain of thought starting with Cuvier’s catastrophism, passing through Lyell, and continuing on to the current day, based on the idea that the world has changed dramatically over its history and new species can arise and old ...
Finally, the gigantic post-Flood catastrophism that is necessary in the pre-Permian model is questioned. INTRODUCTION I welcome this opportunity to respond to Steven Robinson's criticisms of my Overviews article on dinosaur extinction.1 Robinson's paper is due to his belief that dinosaur fossils ...
In truth, taking the earth as a whole, including parts of the earth where no-one lives and where crops are not grown (i.e most of the earth), a very small amount of warming occurred, about half a degree overall, none of which can be attributed to CO2 emissions in any robust ...
10,000 BCCatastrophism is a dirty word in archaeology. But despite not being liked, it remains a fact that civilisations have abruptly ended. And the biggest of all catastrophes seems to have occurred ca. 12,000 years ago. New research, however, might argue in favour of Velikovskian – if...
Categories:AGW,Catastrophism,Climate Change,Global Warming,Omniclimate,SkepticismTags:,logic,Skepticism Here’s Why Mann Is So Bothered About His “Enemies” 4 comments “Much of the contents of [Mann’s] book is old news“, according toPeter Gleick. In fact, an entire day spent at a websit...
And regarding catastrophism, I don’t know if you have heard about James Hansen’s book “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity.” There you have a scientist that is promoting CAGW, and he is not any scientist. Head...