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Status Quo | In Suspect Terrane
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Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. August 5, 2015. You can’t ‘save’ the Earth. At least not in the sense that it should be preserved in its current state – the status quo. That’s what ‘saving’ something is. When we talk about saving the Earth, what we mean is that we should stop changing it – we should preserve it. OK – so is the current condition the way we want things to stay forever? Things like wildlife, and habitats.
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Climate | In Suspect Terrane
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Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. Posts dedicated to climate scepticism. The Petroleum Age has Just Begun! The Age of Petroleum is in its infancy In 1973, and again in 1979, the world was subject to ‘energy crises’ as they were termed at the time. Many readers are too young but those of us who were around recall sitting in long lines in the cold of winter (1973) or the blistering heat…. May 25, 2016. October 2, 2015. Here ...
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Neanderthal | In Suspect Terrane
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Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. March 24, 2015. I’d NEVER date THAT guy? He’s positively Neanderthal! Meaning, I always presumed, oafish, low IQ, bestial, low-brow, crude, illiterate, ill-spoken, boring, cloddish, unmannered, unskilled, unteachable, a loser…. in a word, a dodo. So who were the Neanderthals anyway? Do (did) they fit the caricature? What do we know about them? Why did they become extinct? In each, the deba...
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Humourous | In Suspect Terrane
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Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. Light-hearted observations of the world. I’ll Take Mine On the Rocks, Please. August 5, 2015. March 24, 2015. In General Earth Posts. Caution: Mountebank at Work. Back in 2009 I was on several pretty long-distance business trips with the result that, in that inevitable state of boredom and frustration one always experiences while burrowing through the labyrinth of store-encrusted tunnels i...
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General Earth Posts | In Suspect Terrane
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Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. Posts which have no strong affinity other than being about the Earth in general. March 24, 2015. In General Earth Posts. Caution: Mountebank at Work. March 24, 2015. Here There Be Monsters. Before the age of global exploration the edges of the then known world were annotated on maps with one or both labels: “Terra Incognita” and/or “Here there be monsters.” I re...March 24, 2015. Hesitantl...
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In Suspect Terrane | Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. | Page 2
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Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. 22 Very Inconvenient Climate Truths. Originally posted on Watts Up With That? Here are 22 good reasons not to believe the statements made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guest essay by Jean-Pierre Bardinet. According to the official statements of the IPCC “Science is clear” and non-believers cannot be trusted. Quick action is needed! For more than 30…. May 12, 2015.
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Caution: Mountebank at Work | In Suspect Terrane
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Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. Caution: Mountebank at Work. March 24, 2015. OK – I’m down off my soap box, but as long as you’re still with me, let’s just look at what “The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man” actually thinks. Gore appeared on the Conan O-Brien show back in 2009 and he told us all about the abundance of geothermal energy and how it is free energy right under our feet. All right, then. One at a time:. Gore’...
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Status Quo | In Suspect Terrane
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Commentary, questions and challenges to the received wisdom about the Earth, its systems, its history, and its uses. August 5, 2015. You can’t ‘save’ the Earth. At least not in the sense that it should be preserved in its current state – the status quo. That’s what ‘saving’ something is. When we talk about saving the Earth, what we mean is that we should stop changing it – we should preserve it. OK – so is the current condition the way we want things to stay forever? Things like wildlife, and habitats.