Paul Sheehan at the Sydney Morning Herald, wrote an overview of the book Heaven and Earth by Ian Plimer. His article is titled Beware the climate of conformity. He says that he has been guilty of conformity in the past.
I think the 500 pages (230,000 words with 2311 footnotes) will be interesting to read. Plimer, who is “Australia’s most eminent geologist,” says “Past climate changes, sea-level changes and catastrophes are written in stone.” And since he’s a geologist he takes the very long view of Earth. One of his conclusions: Planet Earth is “currently in an ice age.”
Plimer will not be as easy to dismiss, perhaps, as Freeman Dyson or Michael Crichton, though I’m sure true believers will try. As he says, “The IPCC process is related to environmental activism, politics and opportunism. It is unrelated to science. Current zeal around human-induced climate change is comparable to the certainty professed by Creationists or religious fundamentalists.”
The title of this post comes from Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, “[The river] runs over rocks from the basement of time.”
Nullius in Verba 