This gallery contains 44 photos.
In 1919 Ernest de Koven Leffingwell dated Alaskan Ice by dating Ice Wedges. The elegant simplicity of his stunning scientific achievement highlights just how far the Earth Sciences have retreated from rationality, reason and reality in the last 100 years. … Continue reading
This gallery contains 2 photos.
A Cambridge Union questioner asks Jordan Peterson whether humanity might finally discover its “global map of meaning” by uniting to combat Climate Change.
This gallery contains 5 photos.
James Corbett continues his analysis of the 20th century by explaining how the Eugenics Movement morphed into the Environment Movement. This is a classic case study describing how it’s possible to get Turkeys to Vote for Christmas by turning a … Continue reading
This gallery contains 21 photos.
One of Immanuel Velikovsky’s more outrageous heresies contained within Worlds in Collision is the conclusion that Comet Venus was producing petroleum gases. Worlds in Collision is a book written by Immanuel Velikovsky and first published April 3, 1950. … The … Continue reading
This gallery contains 11 photos.
Earth Scientists have more than a few problems Settling the Science that’s embedded in their medieval mysticism. On the one hand: The Geothermal Gradient defined by the Earth Scientists has recently acquired an additional 5 °C per kilometre. In deep … Continue reading
This gallery contains 17 photos.
The countryside around Pitstone [Buckinghamshire] is generally described as “chalk grassland”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitstone Pitstone Hill is a 22.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Importance east of Pitstone in Buckinghamshire… The site is chalk grassland on a steeply sloping hill, with … Continue reading
This gallery contains 14 photos.
One of the more striking artefacts in the Gazetteer from Ptolemy’s Geographia is the curious semicircle of locations in the centre of the Arabian Peninsula. In effect, Ptolemy developed the first Geographical Information System. Much more significantly, it makes GIS … Continue reading
This gallery contains 6 photos.
Historical revisionism has identified a chronological and archaeological problem of post-Roman times where according, to some, 700 years of stratigraphic evidence is missing from the archaeological strata (Heinsohn various articles etc). Others propose an outright falsification of history (Heribert Illig), … Continue reading
This gallery contains 13 photos.
Murry Salby is an atmospheric scientist who does not support CO2 Settled Science. Murry Lewis Salby is an atmospheric scientist who focused on upper atmospheric wave propagation for most of his early career, and who more recently has argued against … Continue reading
This gallery contains 9 photos.
Radiocarbon dating usually provides Settled Science with reassuringly robust results. However, there are exceptions to every rule and Settled Science finds the deep waters of Lake Baikal [in southern Siberia] particularly unsettling. At 636 km (395 mi) long and 79 … Continue reading
This gallery contains 8 photos.
On the 5th August 1966 The Beatles release their Revolver album in the United Kingdom and in the following month the Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology published the Structure, Seismic Data, And Orogenic Evolution of Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains paper … Continue reading
This gallery contains 10 photos.
Students of the English Skool of Etch A Sketch Geology are taught about Anticlines. In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core. A typical anticline … Continue reading
This gallery contains 5 photos.
Are you exhausted after a long, arduous, all expenses paid [and frivolous] trip to Paris? Then get yourself a coffee, grab a croissant, sit down and read all about aerated bread. In 1862 Dr. John Dauglish founded The Aerated Bread … Continue reading
This gallery contains 1 photo.
The World Bank is getting a little forgetful. This is only to be expected when an organisation is in its dotage. The World Bank was created at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, along with three other institutions, including the International … Continue reading
This gallery contains 5 photos.
Back in May 2011 Roger Tallbloke was buzzing about “a nuclear reaction which leaves no waste”. The nuclear world is all abuzz over this invention. A nuclear reaction which leaves no waste. It uses a catalyst (possibly aluminium) and a … Continue reading
This gallery contains 3 photos.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Kudryavtsev [1893 – 1971] was a Russian petroleum geologist who is considered the founding father of the modern abiogenic theory for petroleum. Nikolai Kudryavtsev was also a prominent and forceful advocate of the abiogenic theory. He argued that … Continue reading
This gallery contains 5 photos.
The Great Game was invented by the British. “The Great Game” was a term for the strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The classic Great Game period is generally … Continue reading
This gallery contains 16 photos.
The Settled Science of geology incorporates the quaint notion that the Earth’s petroleum deposits were formed via the “anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms”. Western mainstream petroleum geologists accordingly classify petroleum as a “fossil fuel” [aka decomposed dinosaur detritus] because … Continue reading
This gallery contains 15 photos.
Diving into the murky waters of the Earth Sciences usually provides me with some entertainment [and a few laughs] during my researches. Researching methane has been no different. There are some wonderful nuggets of information buried in a mountain of … Continue reading
