Author Archives: Chris Rowan

Out of the ice age, into the asteroid shower

Was the biggest cold snap in the last deglaciation caused by an extraterrestrial impact?
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Categories: climate science, geochemistry, geohazards, paper reviews, past worlds, planets, Pleistocene

ID out in Britain’s educational cold, but what of South Africa?

Good news for those of use who believe that what little British schoolchildren get taught in science classes nowadays should actually vaguely resemble science – here’s some choice quotes from some new guidelines (hat-tip to the Panda’s Thumb) regarding the … Continue reading

Categories: antiscience

Highly Allochthonous needs YOU!

What were the highlights of my second year of blogging?
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Categories: bloggery

Global attitudes to climate change

The BBC have just released the results of a global survey of attitudes to anthropogenic climate change, and it makes interesting reading.
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Categories: climate science, public science

The day my world stood still

Error lies at the heart of science; but there are a number of different kinds of “wrong”. An error in hindsight, where a past hypothesis of yours – perfectly reasonable at the time – is disproven by more accurate or … Continue reading

Categories: academic life