10 Replies to “The Sound Of Settled Science”

  2. The sound of settled science.
    More science coming out saying CO2 has nothing to do with the earth’s temperature. Two separate studies. The censorship isn’t happening fast enough for these charlatans of the “climate crisis”. The head of the UN demanding, DEMANDING, $301Billion to address the “climate crisis®©” in the third world.
    $Billions stolen from peoples’ pockets so these grifters can live like kings.
    Arrest them all for crimes against humanity and bring in executions for the guilty.

  3. My 4 cents worth come from this paragraph.

    “Chemical analysis revealed that these ancient zircons had the same composition as those formed from the island’s current volcanic activity, suggesting they came from the same magma source. However, the volcanic activity that created Easter Island’s landscape cannot have been occurring for 165 million years because the tectonic plate beneath the island is not that old. The only plausible explanation is that these ancient zircons were brought up from deep within the mantle, beneath the plate, from much earlier volcanic activity.”

    1. Calling 165 million year old material “ancient” is misleading. Yes, it’s much older than the 2.5 million yrs they claim the island is made from. But the ancient Earth is 4.5 billion yrs old and 165 million isn’t that old (geologically speaking).

    2. It’s unlikely that Easter Island is only 2.5 million yrs old (look at me sitting in an arm chair). The material could be up to 50 million yrs old without having to move any plates too far, with most of the recent material being at surface and some of the older material being at depth (but not that deep, just far enough away from the geologists hammer).

    3. I suspect the zircons aren’t just either 2.5 or 165 million yrs old but range within that value. So no surprise there. If there were only 2 distinct groups (2.5 and 165) I wouldn’t be surprised either.

    4. Geology is messy. Geologists find a new mineral deposit and they invent a model for its formation. One guy writes a paper with a new idea and another writes another paper with another new idea on the same topic. All their evidence sits 34 km under the ocean so they’re both right until a new geologist comes along (he has to have a cool name and he has to wait about 60 years) with a new paper and a new theory. Then he’s right – for 60 years.

    In summary, this is bullshit in a can.

    1. I read once (where, I don’t remember), that the main scientist who helped confirm Plate Tectonics back in the 1960s (whose name, I also don’t remember), was asked what he would do next, and he said that he might try to disprove it.

      I’d guess my story is apocryphal, but it kind of summarizes what all good scientists should do.

      1. That could be Tuzo Wilson …. he had that type of humour. I was lucky enough to have him for a quest lecturer for two weeks.
        Here is a good (although a difficult read) article from U of Toronto on Tuzo & continental drift. 1963 was a big year for acceptance of continental drift with Vine & Mathews publishing their paper on the paleo magnetic striping of the Atlantic’s ocean crust to either side of the mid-ocean ridge. https://www.physics.utoronto.ca/physics-at-uoft/history/life-john-tuzo-wilson-2/
        Kate mocks “settled science” but I doubt she has ever done anything serious re scientific research. Done correctly, good science is amazing.

        Someone mentioned drilling to the moho … there is mantle rock in Newfoundland at Betts Cove & Gros Morne N Park … the rock is Peridotite … nasty rock that weathers and nothing like to grow on the soil. It is part of the Ophiolite Complex emplaced when the Iapetus Ocean closed.

        1. I wasn’t aware that a record of published research was required before one was allowed to call out bullshit. I’ve never seen Kate take on settled science in any way that discredited her.

  4. I dunno,
    A 165 million year old mantel is a 165 million year old mantel. I would think that decay would start from there.

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