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Geological mayhem and destruction in 2012: not the end of the world, just business as usual
We don’t live on a boring planet. 2012 will be plagued by natural disasters, but so is every other year. Continue reading
Categories: antiscience, climate science, earthquakes, geohazards, palaeomagic, public science, volcanoes
The elephants in the room at ScienceOnline 2011
The undercurrents and unresolved issues at ScienceOnline 2011, that I feel are going to be an important component of online conversations in the next 12 months. Continue reading
Earth’s magnetic field: still not reversing
Birds falling from the sky? Airport runways realigning? 2012 approaching? Only one of these things is at all to do with magnetic field behaviour, and even that is nothing to worry about. Continue reading
Standing up for serpentinite
The presence of serpentinite is like a big red flag telling geologists “interesting tectonic stuff here!”. But in California, that might not be the only red flag that you will be seeing in the future, if the state government have their way. Continue reading
Boobquake: a slightly silly test of a ridiculous scientific hypothesis
Do immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes? Of course not.
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Volcano monitoring good: Republican antiscientism getting tedious
The geoblogosphere has rightly been up in arms today about the idiotic comments of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who ended his list of examples of what he viewed as wasteful spending in the US stimulus bill by decrying the $140 … Continue reading
It’s Earth’s Official Birthday!
I say official, because, just like the Queen’s, the date does not actually mean much from a natal perspective. Nonetheless, the night preceding, or the morning of, October 23rd, 4004 BC is the date that Archbishop Ussher, after a bit … Continue reading
