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Ted Nield mourns the brutal murders science journalists in Bangladesh.
Geology lies at the heart of a public consultation about radioactive waste disposal, due to close in early December, writes Natalyn Ala.
Four new books reviewed by Graham Evans, Richard Porter, Rick Brassington and Don Hallett
GSL is pleased to offer a new combined online journals package from 2015
Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the Society
Bruce Yardley (Leeds University) has been appointed Chief Geologist by The Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA).
Chartership Officer Bill Gaskarth reports on a projected new logo for use by CGeols, advice on applications and company training schemes
The Society has published an addendum to 'Climate Change: Evidence from the Geological Record' (November 2010) taking account of new research
Oliver Pritchard, Stephen Hallett, and Timothy Farewell consider the role of soil science in maintaining the British 'evolved road'
Kathryn Goodenough* on a Society-sponsored hunt for the rare metals that underpin new technologies
As Nina Morgan Discovers, the debate over HS2 is nothing new...
Ted Nield hails the new refurbished Council Room as evidence that the Society is growing up
Fellows - renew, vote for Council, and volunteer for Earth Science Week 2014! Also - who is honoured in the Society's Awards and Medals 2014.
Peter Fookes (Imperial College, London) celebrated at Society event in honour of Engineering Group Working Parties and their reports
When are University Earth Science departments going to shed their outmoded obsession with maths, physics and chemistry?
Nancy Tupholme, Librarian of the Society and the Royal Society, has died, reports Wendy Cawthorne.
Ted Nield reviews the refurbishment of the Council Room, Burlington House
You can help the Haslemere Educational Museum to identify subjects in Sir Archibald Geikie's amazing field notebook sketches, writes John Betterton.
Who are the top 100 UK practising scientists? The Science Council knows...
Accurate Basemaps 12 October 2015
Sir, In June's Geoscientist (v. 23.05), Nina Morgan stressed the benefit, to geologists, of accurate topographic base maps.
This stirred memories of my first appointment, from 1949 to 1955, to the Gold Coast Geological Survey. The Gold Coast (now Ghana) could boast full one inch to the mile cover, thanks to the interest and support of a former Governor (himself a trained land surveyor) some decades previously.
Not long after arrival in the colony, I found myself supervising a drilling programme designed to explore the site of a proposed dam on the Volta River. The contoured maps were invaluable and I recall, in particular, sending out my labour force to clear access to an area of interest, a small rise on the far bank wholly covered in dense vegetation. For several days thereafter, I levelled along cut lines that resolutely refused to reveal the contours I was seeking, until I reluctantly had to conclude that some head office draughtsman, long ago, had used his imagination to fill a space that had escaped the survey.
Not long after this episode, I asked my Ghanaian field assistant (who, as it proved, had an odd sense of humour) to explain why certain paths on the maps were marked "fit for hammocking." As a result, and on his assurance that he had seen hammocks in store at Survey HQ, I put in a requisition for two hammocks, since being carried in this hilly area would undoubtedly improve my efficiency.
HQ's response was frosty to say the least; they confirmed existence of the hammocks but pointed out that their use had been phased out in the 1920's; also that the best geologists were the ones that saw the most rocks and that this was best achieved by inspecting the ground over which they walked. This story got around.
Professional qualifications vital! 12 October 2015
Sir, In response to Rob Wallace's letter 'Chartership - what's the use?' in Geoscientist Vol 25 No. 8 September 2015, I would say this. Most Mining companies particularly in Canada will not employ you as a consultant unless you have such qualifications.
I can only think that Mr Wallace has never had to sign any geological documents of legal or financial significance. The company that I worked for expected and encouraged their geologist to join the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP). One could not sign off Ore Reserves for a listing on the Stock Exchange without being a member.
Subsequent to the Bre-X fraud, many stock exchanges tightened up their signatory requirements for many geological documents presented by companies trying to raise money - notably the Australian and Canadian exchanges, because they have to largest number of small companies trading in the mining industry.
Documents include not only ore reserves but exploration programs, requests to become a mining exploration company as well as financial and personnel documents. The report signatory should not in most cases be an employee. I could not have carried out my geological consultancy reporting without my South African registration. All such reports, such as NI43-101 for use on a Canadian Stock Exchange, are lodged on the SEDAR data base and accessible to anyone, free. A very strict format is laid down for completion of such reports.
In general I think that registration in one country is accepted by the others.
Brian King
Wallace is right 24 September 2015
Sir, We agree with Rob Wallace's comments in the September 2015 edition of Geoscientist regarding the practical benefit of Chartership.
At the last Operations Geology conference in November 2014 presentations were made on the topic of competency in the field of operations geoscience in the oil industry. In the associated discussions similar views with respect to Chartership were expressed and a clear need for a robust and focused process emerged.
After a show of hands at the conference a clear mandate was given to pursue this idea and a UK Operational Geoscience Competency Initiative has since been started. A small group of experienced industry professionals has outlined a roadmap for ongoing work with the aim of creating a recognised industry wide competency management system (CMS) with accreditation. In the future a more broadly based steering group, including operators, service contractors and industry experts, will be formed to work the detail and implement the system.
There are obvious cost and efficiency benefits of having one recognised system. For operating companies it will give clarity on the competency of individuals who work for them or who are about to hire directly or take on contract. It is intended that there will a process of certification identifying an individual's level of competency from basic awareness to expert. This 'ticket' will need to be reviewed every three to four years with a commitment to ongoing training and maintaining a personal development plan.
The CMS will not only benefit the industry as a whole but will also benefit, operations and wellsite geologists, pore pressure and geomechanics specialists and other professionals involved in operational geology. It will raise the profile of the discipline and bring us into line with other professions such as civil engineers, doctors and accountants who all have robust competency management systems.
Tim Herrett, On behalf of the Steering Group, Bob Fagg, Pat Spicer, Christine Telford, Martin Gardner.
Chartership is very useful! 17 September 2015
Sir, In complete contrast to Rob Wallace (Geoscientist 25.8 p17) I have found the Chartership extremely useful. Firstly, my Chartered status gained me membership into Costco which has approximately 88 million members and 700 outlets worldwide, offering significant discounts on thousands of products. I've also found it useful to draw one's eye away from my 'Diploma of the Imperial College' title ('DIC'), when applying for jobs and listing my postnominals (BSc, MSc, DIC, CGeol, FGS)!
Chartership is very useful (2)! 17 September 2015
Sir, I disagree with Rob Wallace's recent letter questioning the practical benefits of Chartered Status.(Geoscientist Letters, 7 July 2015).
Within the aggregates sector of the UK minerals industry, Chartered status has long been seen as a 'benchmark' for achieving full career-level competency as a practising geologist. For our geologists it is a significant career milestone as we seek to develop an individual's competency and align it to career development. In a practical sense we ensure that individual competencies around the various types of project completion and sign-off (including Reserves and Resources reporting) are developed in parallel to the more formal requirements of Chartership. Thus the conferring of Chartered Status represents, in a very real sense, our confidence in a geologist's ability to operate within our organisation to a minimum level of technical supervision, but with the usual and appropriate mechanisms for peer review.
We are probably the largest employer of geologists within our sector and I believe that our practical approach to Chartership has served us well over the years. I understand that other organisations within our sector take a similar approach. In contrast to your correspondent I have noted a number of recruitment advertisements over the years which list CGeol as a requirement.
Paul Joel
Head of Geology
Landslides & Undermining: A Progressive Mechanism? 28 July 2015
Sir, In February 1966 Laurits Bjerrum delivered the 3rd Terzaghi Lecture titled, "Progressive Failure in Slopes of Plastic Clay and Clay Shales". In the lecture, and the subsequent paper, he demonstrated that strain produced by lateral unloading, after excavation of a slope, caused progressive development of slip surfaces along which the angle of shearing resistance reduced towards a residual value. Bjerrum included numerous case studies including the famous failures after the excavation of the Panama Canal.
Covering around 3000km2, the coal mining valleys of South Wales (UK) have one of the highest concentrations of landslides in Western Europe (Bentley & Siddle 1996). Many are deep-seated and have curvilinear slip surfaces where the linear sections follow the ~5o dipping bedding planes in the mainly argillaceous Rhondda Beds (Bentley 2000; Bentley & Siddle 2000).
For about 100 years the valleys were the home to over 620 collieries which mined subsurface coal in up to eight seams at depths of between 75 and 300 metres below the valley floors. Mechanised during the 1930's the total-extraction long-wall mining and the resulting subsidence caused significant tensile strains over transient and permanent mining edges. Repeated up to eight times, could these waves of strain equate to lateral unloading and ground movements accommodated in bedding planes along which the angle of shearing resistance moved towards residual values? Mining subsidence driving progressive failure and as the slip surface lengthens, and in combination with other causal factors such as pore water pressures, the slope fails.
Many of the deep-seated, curvilinear landslides are well-documented and occurred during the mining era. Interestingly, there are others which are much older possibly periglacial in age (for example, Troedyrhiw in the Taff Valley, No51.7131 Wo-3.3390). Could lateral unloading by ice be another driver of progressive failure?
Could many of the recent landslides (1860 to 1960) be products of both mechanisms where the progressive development of slip surfaces is initiated by deglaciation and lengthened to the point of failure by mining subsidence?
Stephen P Bentley, Reader in Engineering Geology, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University.
Gravity and Mind - Anti-Austerity Violence Confirms Human Response to the Effects of Tectonic Stress 17 July 2015
Sir, The Anti-Austerity Protests on Saturday 9 May occurred within 14 days prior to the Kent Earthquake of 22 May 2015. This violent disorder included 15 arrests and would classify as a 'significant riot' under the broad definition set out in my research, published in 2013. I believe this riot-quake example adds to the evidence for a Human Response to the effects of Tectonic Stress.
The Hypotheses I tested for the earlier period of my 1980 to 2012 research were that:
'There is a significantly higher incidence of riots and disorder in the 14 days immediately before earthquakes of 2.5ML or greater [in England and Wales 1980 to 2012] than would be expected by chance.'
'There is a significantly higher incidence of riots and disorder in the 14 days immediately before earthquakes of 2.5ML or greater [in England and Wales 1980 to 2012] than would be expected by chance.'
'There is a significantly lower incidence of riots and disorder after more than 140 days has passed since the last most recent earthquake and when more than 14 days remain before the following earthquake of 2.5ML or greater [in England and Wales 1980 to 2012], than would be expected by chance.'
'There is a significantly lower incidence of riots and disorder after more than 140 days has passed since the last most recent earthquake and when more than 14 days remain before the following earthquake of 2.5ML or greater [in England and Wales 1980 to 2012], than would be expected by chance.'
Interestingly, there were further, peaceful anti-austerity protests ['End Austerity Now' ] in London on Saturday 20 June 2015, attended by an estimated 250,000 people. The Metropolitan Police stated at the time that there were no arrests, confirming the peaceful nature of the demonstrations, after which BGS records available to date indicate there were no significant earthquakes of 2.5ML or greater beneath the land area of England and Wales within the following 14 days.
My conclusions remain valid that the probability of the hypotheses being wrong is less than 1% in both cases and to date this assertion has never been effectively opposed.
Alan Watson
Identify peer-reviewers 08 July 2015
Sir, I thoroughly agree about the ethical problems of anonymous reviewing, highlighted in your recent Editorial (Geoscientist 25.6, p5). But I don't see double-blind reviewing as the best solution, since it is often quite easy to recognise authors according to the subject, treatment, and the number of self-citations (!). Surely a better idea is for journals to adopt a policy of always identifying reviewers. This should ensure more certainly that they provide a balanced and responsible review, and only those who cannot be impartial would refuse to undertake such a review. GSL should take a lead on this.
Bob Pankhurst
Irony side 07 July 2015
Sir, to illustrate an article about "inclusion" with an abandoned hospital wheelchair in a field may be regarded as somewhat crass (Geoscientist 25.6 pg 7, print issue). But to place it next to an invite to enjoy port at the Athenaeum Club is a work of pure ironic genius!
Dr Simon Quinn, Amec
Chartership - What's the use? 07 July 2015
Sir, As a long-time C.Geol I have read the various recent articles and letters with interest. They do however raise the question - is Chartership of any practical benefit?
I work in the oil & gas business and in 20 years I can't remember a single job ad asking for CGeol, nor any request for bids stipulating the work should be carried out or supervised by a Chartered member (or to be honest even a common-or-garden Fellow.....). The only practical advantage it seems to give is when applying for a Work Permit in South Africa.
So why keep paying the fees? Personally the only reason I can justify it is that it actually forces me to do some training, and document it - otherwise I suspect I'd backslide badly on Continuing Education.
Rob Wallace
Wegener on a plate? 01 June 2015
Sir, I was surprised to read Dr Shellnutt (Living with metrics, Geoscientist 25.3, p9) outline the work of the late Alfred Wegener on 'Plate Tectonics' - when in fact he only advocated the Continental Drift hypothesis in his 1911 book.
New Executive Secretary Chartered, or 'charterable'? 18 May 2015
Sir, Regarding Dick Selley's call (Geoscientist 25.4, p21) for applicants for the post of the Society's new Executive Secretary to be a Chartered Geologist (CGeol), while most laudable is, I believe, neither the most pragmatic nor necessarily the most ideal criterion.
First, the Society's membership, which has grown over recent decades, is only just over 12,000 and the number of Fellows who hold Chartered Geologist status is many fewer than this. To restrict applications to just this small pool would most likely exclude many capable and deserving candidates.
Second, it was cited that the Chief Executives of sister societies within the Science Council – relating to chemistry, physics and biology – were Chartered members of their discipline. Actually some of these, when applying, were not then Chartered (or even non-Chartered) members of the body they went on to serve. Indeed one of disciplines cited has found its past three Chief Executives among non-members at the time of application - only becoming members, and indeed Fellows of their society, after accepting the post.
Third, some of these bodies have benefited from having a Chief Exec who did not belong to their relevant discipline. Indeed, one has had a scientist from a different discipline (albeit still a scientific one) and that person's 28-year tenure saw that body's membership increase by over 14,000!
Fourth, Selley concludes by noting that some of our sister science bodies' Chief Execs are 'even PhDs', as if a research qualification was both relevant for an administrative post and a necessary badge of professional belonging. The Society is no longer even dominated politically by those into research, let alone numerically; the profession is way bigger than that. Graduates in science carve out successful careers in many walks of life, including: teaching, science communication (journalism, publishing, press liaison, policy analysis and policy-making, in small businesses and, dare I say it, the dark arts of the financial sector, among many other sectors.
Personally, I want to see the best person for the job. The post requires a mix of skills and getting it right is not easy. Indeed some (if not all) of our allied professional bodies have seen some of their Chief Execs leave office in less than ideal circumstances (folk who were relevant professionals with PhDs) and those that did so quickly should be praised for recognising that the burden of administration was not for them.
Let us not hamper our Council at this time with restrictive conditions.
Why HAS local stone become so hard to find? 18 May 2015
Sir, Articles in this month's Geoscientist and Geoscientist Online lead me to reflect on the sad state of the UK's stone industry (as opposed to aggregate).
Why has UK produced building and ornamental stone become such an unavailable and unaffordable commodity?
John Heathcote
Solar variation and climate change - reply 18 May 2015
As shown by Wanner et al. (2015), orbital forcing has declined significantly over the past 10,000 years, in parallel with global temperature, as deduced from a wide range of proxies. It can be considered the main driver for Holocene climate change, because CO2 changed very little over the same period. The changes in insolation due to solar activity are much smaller than those caused by orbital change, so are superimposed as wiggles on this downward cooling trend. Following a Holocene Climatic Optimum, about 4,000 years ago, this cooling led Earth into a neoglacial phase, characterized by glacial readvance, which culminated in the Little Ice Age (LIA) (1250-1850). The coldest phases of the LIA occurred during periods of prolonged sunspot minima (Wolf Minimum: 1280 to 1345 AD; Spörer Minimum: 1420 to 1540 AD; Maunder Minimum: 1645-1715 AD; Dalton Minimum: 1790-1820 AD; and Gleissberg Minimum: 1890-1910 AD). The orbital data suggest that this neoglacial phase should persist for the next 5000 years (Loutre and Berger, 2000). Indeed, recognizing the dominance of the orbital signal, we should still be in the LIA – albeit in one of its warm phases.
Foster is correct in drawing attention to the current decline in sunspot numbers, which may be leading towards a further grand sunspot minimum like those mentioned above. We can see the pattern of recent sunspot activity in Figure 1 (from Clette et al., 2014). Clette et al. (2014) recalibrated the original sunspot series to show that by the mid 18th century solar activity had returned to levels typical of recent solar cycles in the 20th century, but is now in decline (see Figure 1, which shows sunspot groups rather than actual sunspot numbers - for explanation see Clette et al., 2014). Aside from the 11-year sunspot cycle, the Figure shows some of the grand sunspot minima mentioned above, which are caused by the fluctuations of either the 208-year Suess (or de Vries) Cycle, or the 88-year Gleissberg Cycle, along with their 'combination tones' (where signals of different wavelengths interfere with one another to accentuate or diminish the underlying signal) at 152 and 62 years.
Foster assumes from the current decline in sunspot activity from its peak in 1990, that "this energy reduction has initiated an expected reversal from the past warm era to a new cold era". Is he correct? In fact, global temperatures have been more or less stable for the past 14 years, with 2014 at least as warm if not warmer than preceding years. Argo float data show that the ocean continued to gain heat at a rate of 0.4-0.6W/m2 between 2006 and 2013 (Roemmich et al., 2015). And observations by satellite radar altimeter show that the loss of ice from ice shelves around Antarctica was minimal in 1994-2003 (25±64 km3/yr), but rapid in 2003-2012 (310±74 km3) (Paolo et al. 2015). Arctic sea ice also exhibited a decline through the 2000s. These are not signs that the world is cooling. It seems counterintuitive that Antarctic sea ice is expanding slightly, but that expansion may be connected to the melting of West Antarctic ice shelves, mentioned above, which freshens the surface waters around the continent.
So what is going on? I suggest that what we are experiencing is a balance between the cooling to be expected from a growing sunspot minimum (which may or may not turn out to be long), combined with the warming to be expected from growing emissions of greenhouse gases. If I am right, then Dr Foster's calculation that temperatures will cool by "1.0 and 1.5 degrees C lower than the peak year of 1998" may turn out to be a poor guess.
Dr Foster seems not to be convinced (despite experimental evidence) that CO2 has any effect on atmospheric temperatures. I recommend that he examine carefully the record of climate change across the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary, 55 million years ago (Zachos et al., 2008). There we find ample evidence for a massive increase in the emission of carbon into the atmosphere, a significant rise in temperature, acidification of the ocean causing a rise in the carbonate compensation depth, and a significant rise in sea level. There is no extraneous cause for the rise in temperature, so it is highly unlikely that it drove the rise in CO2.
There is abundant evidence that there were times in Earth's history when plate tectonic processes provided a CO2 source, through enhanced volcanism, and times when the absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere by chemical weathering in growing mountain chains formed a sink for CO2, as part of the slow carbon cycle described elegantly by the late Bob Berner (2004), and that these changes modified Earth's temperature. Equally, there were times when changes in orbital insolation forced changes in Earth's temperature, which drove changes in CO2 through the loss of CO2 to the air from warming water, and its re-solution by colder water, which accentuated orbital warming and cooling by positive feedback. Thus CO2 can both drive temperature change and be driven by it. This is all fundamental geochemistry.
To conclude, the graph above shows that the peak sunspot numbers of the late 20th century were about the same as those of the warm periods of the LIA (1780-90; 1840-70). Given that the late 20th Century was about 0.8°C warmer than the warm temperatures in the 1870s, the late 20th Century warmth must have had some other source than solar – most likely the rise in CO2 stemming from the industrial revolution and its aftermath. If not that, then what?
Colin Summerhayes Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge
Nepal - supply Morrison Shelters! 18 May 2015
From Graham West
Sir, Once again, the recent earthquake in Nepal has shown that many of the victims were killed and injured inside buildings by falling or collapsing masonry.
During WW2, protecting occupants from building collapse during air raids was provided by supplying them with so-called Morrison Shelters, named for the then Minister for Home Security. These were prefabricated steel cage-like enclosures (picture) in which a family could take shelter and be safe if the house collapsed on them. They were simple to make and erect (it was said that they could be put up by a pair of boy scouts!).
This, then would seem to be a lo-tech solution to providing protection from earthquakes in developing countries. Morrison Shelters would be easy to manufacture, should not be too expensive, and people could be taught to erect them without difficulty.
Graham West
Bravo, Mr Brassington! 14 May 2015
Sir, As first President of the Institution of Geologists, I should like to congratulate Rick Brassington for yet again flying the flag for the Institution. Throughout its long life, Rick has been a continuing enthusiast for our activities.
Keep up the good work Mr Brassington.
John Shanklin
New Executive Secretary should not need Chartered Geologist status 14 May 2015
Sir, That the Executive Secretary should be a professional geologist is indisputable. However, the majority of professional geologists do not have chartered status as is shown by the Annual Review for 2014: out of a membership of 11,606 a mere 21% (2495) are chartered. Therefore, I do not believe it should be essential for the Executive Secretary to have chartered status.
John Murray, Ocean and Earth Science National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH
New Executive Secretary must be a Chartered Geologist (2) 13 April 2015
Sir, I chaired the Governance Committee in 1996 that constituted the five Vice-Presidents and myself. Our report to Council recognised the important role of the Executive Secretary in representing the Society and furthering its aims for the science and profession of geology at a high level both in the UK and internationally. The Executive Secretary provides an important continuity within the Society's governance as the Bye-laws dictate that Presidents, Honorary Officers and Council Members may only serve for a limited time. For these reasons the Governance Committee recommended that the Executive Secretary should be a professionally experienced Chartered Geologist.
Reading the recently published recruitment advertisement in the April issue of this magazine, it would seem that, 18 years later, this important aspect of the role of the Executive Secretary may have been overlooked and this requirement has not been included in the Bye-laws during the various reviews that have occurred during recent times.
I hope that this aspect will not be overlooked by the committee charged with making the appointment and am reassured by the comments made by the President in response to the letter from Dick Selley.
Rick Brassington
New Executive Secretary must be a Chartered Geologist 01 April 2015
Sir, Many Fellows will be as surprised as I am to read that the recruitment advertisement in Geoscientist (Geoscientist 25.3, April 2015, p30) for a new Executive Secretary does not specify that the successful applicant will be a professional geologist; only that 'He/she will have a strong empathy for the membership, very likely with experience and professional credibility or academic credentials in a related field'.
The wisdom of the change has been demonstrated over the last 18 years. Furthermore the Chief Executive Officers of our sister societies, the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Biology, are all members/fellows of their respective bodies, some even PhDs (Biology, Physics) and one even a professor (Physics).
Surely the Geological Society of London would exhibit retrograde metamorphism if it did not appoint a professional geologist to the high profile post of Executive Secretary.
Dick Selley
We would be delighted to appoint a Chartered Geologist to this role, and look forward to receiving applications from those Chartered Geologists who feel qualified to meet the requirements of the position.
Solar variation and climate change 18 March 2015
Sir, I write in response to the letter of Prof Sumerhayes of 17. 7. 14, with particular reference to his comments on solar radiance and temperatures. In both of the cases quoted by Prof Summerhayes, he has chosen to ignore evidence that flatly contradicts, if not outright disproves, his arguments, and raises serious questions about the use and reliability of some proxy data sets to reconstruct past temperatures.
With reference to the sun and global average temperatures I include a graph of sunspot activity and global temperatures for the last four (21 to 24) solar cycles with the caption provided by the source (Space Science Research Centre, 2014).
I quote the SSRC statement of 10. 12. 14. with reference to this data and its implications for future short term (30 years) global temperatures:
"The rate of temperature decline on a 100-year trend line is the steepest seen during that time frame going back to 1914. The most recent multi-centennial climate epoch which began around 1830, has begun to reverse direction from a global temperature standpoint. The past period of generally increasing warmth for the Earth, which was caused by the Sun's natural and regular cycles of activity, reached an average peak of warming between 2007 and 2008 as measured by global atmospheric temperatures in the lower troposphere. This change was observed in oceanic temperatures as early as 2003. Acting primarily under the influence of a repeating 206 year solar cycle, a new "solar hibernation" has begun, and is marked by a significant decline in the Sun's energy output. Starting with solar cycle #24, this energy reduction has initiated an expected reversal from the past warm era to a new cold era... There has been no effective growth in global temperatures for 18 years...and polar regions have now displayed a consistent trend of colder temperatures and growth in sea ice."
SSRC further predicts that:
"...unless there is a significant unexpected and rapid change in the present declining solar activity trend, then a period of solar hibernation will follow" and that this will result in "either new 200-year cold weather records or 400-year temperature records and widespread climate and weather extremes. Both of these predictions would result in global average temperatures falling between 1.0 and 1.5 degrees C lower than the peak year of 1998". SSRC predicts that these changes will occur "in the next year or two".
Readers will be able to make their own judgements concerning the value of the graph and the comments made by Prof Summerhayes regarding solar radiation output, the "ample information" about Be10 and C14 values and temperatures in his letter referred to above, and further so in the light of NASA data that shows that maximum solar output occurred in the early years of this century, not the 1970s as Prof. Summerhayes' proxy data suggests.
The well known Maunder and Dalton Minima of solar counts and their possible effects on temperatures can be readily seen on the graph. Readers may also wish to consider Prof Summerhayes' reference to the GSL climate change statement (2013) and the assumptions upon which that was based. In view of the fact that the data presented in the graph above were available to the authors of that statement, and that these data were evidently either ignored or given little weight leads me at least to the conclusion that a single hypothesis was more important to those authors than an objective analysis and evaluation of all available data and hypotheses.
Prof Summerhayes' statement that because "IPCC numerical climate...models' outputs match recent meteorological data well up to the present time…it cannot be said that anthropogenic global warming has been disproved by the models' performance." is simply wrong. I stated in an earlier letter (16.10.13) that there have been over 30 iterations of the IPCC model, and that none of them have made any accurate prediction of temperature change: such "predictions" that have been made have been proved to be wildly wrong and have had to be "adjusted" post hoc in order to match the actual temperature record.
The IPCC have so exaggerated the importance of CO2 that even when they do include other variables in their model the results are hopelessly inaccurate. There are many models other than that of the IPCC which have successfully predicted recent meteorological data accurately - they only require that temperatures rise to the extent that they have done in the past three decades - the causes of those changes are irrelevant. Prof Summerhayes has again failed to make the distinction between correlation and causation and recognise that there may be any number of factors causing variation in global average temperatures, upwards or downwards, which is why we need multiple working hypotheses when trying to better understand complex natural phenomena.
I have also stated that global climate is a consequence of the interaction of two complex fluid-dynamic systems and that because the behaviour of both is chaotic, predicting their behaviour over the longer term is inherently impossible. This means that the close coupling between sunspot activity and temperatures in the past 400 years as illustrated on the graph above is both remarkable and worthy of further detailed analysis and assessment by groups without preconceived notions about what may or may not be causing temperature fluctuations during that time. The lack of coupling between CO2 concentrations and temperature over the same 400-year period is even starker and serves to reinforce my argument. The AGW hypothesis has singularly failed to predict or explain any of these variations and this should be sufficient ground for its rejection. Politics and the politics of academic science are the major impediment to this happening, which was the key to my original letter on this subject.
This brings me to my final point. I have repeatedly asked for but have not been given, incontrovertible evidence that changes in CO2concentrations cause significant changes in global temperature. Reference to laboratory experiments are invalid because these are closed systems whereas the Earth's atmosphere is an open system and by definition will behave in a completely different manner. It has not "been known" that there is a causal link between CO2 concentrations and temperature since the end of the 19th Century (Prof Summerhayes, Geoscientist letters; 17. 7. 14): it has been assumed that such a link exists and it is this that I and others are challenging in the tradition of good scientific practice. Nowhere in the writings of Gilbert is evidence presented to demonstrate that an increase in CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere will cause an increase in temperature, only that the two are correlated.
Gilbert's assumption also underpins the books on planetary atmospheric science quoted by Prof. Summerhayes and means that they too are of questionable value: they are based on unproven assumptions which have achieved the status of unchallengeable myth. I have asked for evidence, not opinion, and I am still waiting for it. No matter. because an answer will be provided within a decade when we will all be able to observe directly the global average temperature trend. If temperatures do start to fall as predicted by the solar model above, the reaction of supporters of the AGW hypothesis will be very interesting and informative.
In the meantime I will concern myself with more acute and worrying environmental problems including among others, the pernicious spread of plastic waste, (C. Mackenzie, Soapbox: 7 August 2014).
Stephen W Foster.
Mud in our eye 04 February 2015
Sir, I would like to congratulate you on the latest Geoscientist, which at last recognises the significance of the main subject of my career! The lifetime of mud and X-ray diffraction was in fact quite a jolly one, despite the jokes of my colleagues at Reading, and I still believe it to have been a really significant part of geology.
Andrew Parker
Taking the Keeble road to postgraduate funding 03 February 2015
Picture: D.H.L. Keeble MC TD EurIng BSc(Eng)(London) CEng FICE FIHT MConsE
Donovan ('Don') Keeble established an Educational Charity in 1989. Following a distinguished career as a professional Civil Engineer in the UK and Southern Africa, as well as military service in which he was awarded the Military Cross for action at Dunkirk. Don had the vision to establish a charity to award 'scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries or maintenance allowances ... for the advancement of education of persons who intend to pursue a career in Consulting Geotechnical Engineering.'
Don consulted closely with Dr Mike De Freitas of Imperial College on the need for financial support for students at that time. They considered the use to which such support would be put, the things that could go wrong, and the means by which such support might be best directed. Mike Scott, who was the Managing Director of Southern Testing at that time, was also consulted.
Don donated part of his shareholding in Southern Testing (STL) to the Trust, to fund the educational awards. The Trust is administered by Southern Testing, and I have had the privilege of being one of three Trustees for the last 24 years. The awards are independent of Southern Testing and are designed for the educational needs of individual postgraduate students. Don was keen that application for this help should be simple and straightforward. We have given awards to over 50 geologists and civil engineers, predominately to assist funding for Masters degrees in geotechnical engineering.
We would be delighted to hear from candidates who have benefited from our awards, with details of their current employment. We would also be interested to know how they came to hear of the awards, how it helped them at the time, and their career progression. Links to Social Media are available on Southern Testing's Website for this use.
Individual awards vary according to funds available (reflecting the financial performance of Southern Testing) along with the needs of successful applicants.
Funding of postgraduate studies has become limited since the Trust was set up in 1989. Perhaps it is time for other large and small-scale consultants (and those who feel philanthropic) to set up a similar method of funding, not directly related to their organisation, to finance the next generation of consulting engineers and geologists.
Don felt a very strong and personal need to do this, perhaps as a way of returning to society something he felt he owed. Educational philanthropy is going to be needed and should be a significant source of future funding in our profession.
Morris Stevenson
Chairman and Managing Director, Don Keeble STL Trust/Southern Testing Laboratories Ltd.
Year of Mud - let's hear it for bentonites! 03 February 2015
Sir, There is mud (assorted clays and clastics) containing lovely animal and plant fossils, then there is mud (clay) produced by the alteration of volcanic glass. Yes, I am talking about bentonites (mostly smectite/illite), which I have worked on for 30 years.
Picture: Apatite crystal from a Silurian bentonite, containing an oval melt inclusion.
These muds also contain fossils, but these are fossil crystals formed in situ in the original melt. Apatite, zircon and sometimes biotite occur as beautifully preserved crystals which also tell a story, albeit a geochemical one.
Combined with bulk chemical analysis, the fossil crystals help to date the rock, to identify the magmatic environments and to correlate strata across countries, and sometimes across continents.
Let's hear it for bentonites!
Picture: Two crystals of zircon from an Ordovician bentonite.
Richard A Batchelor
Online publishing - reply to Don Hallett & Desmond Donovan 03 February 2015
Sir, Don Hallet's Soapbox piece (Geoscientist, November 2014) and Desmond Donovan's letter (Geoscientist, February 2015) raise interesting issues in relation to scholarly publishing. It is quite right to assert that there are factors at play that might distort author and publisher behaviour, and that commercial competition has led to a proliferation of journals, but most publishers (both society and commercial) make genuine efforts to improve the discoverability of the content they publish via a range of search interfaces, and invest heavily in services that add value to authors' papers. Indeed, since 2007 the version of record for Geological Society publications has been the online copy hosted on the Lyell Collection (http://www.lyellcollection.org/), where both PDF and HTML displays are available, and we have invested continually in author and reader functionality. There is a growing number of online titles for which print is no longer offered - though print versions of GSL books and journals do remain available to those who prefer them.
Desmond makes a pertinent suggestion about centrally organised electronic publishing on behalf of the major societies. In fact the Society has contributed its content to just such an aggregation for 10 years now – GeoScienceWorld (http://geoscienceworld.org/), an online-only collection of 45 full text journals and over 1000 ebooks from 28 society publishers, with nearly 1000 subscribing institutions worldwide.
Neal Marriott, Colin North
War Graves - Hopton Wood Limestone (Carboniferous) 03 February 2015
Sir, Picking up on John Dixon's letter regarding Portland Stone substitutes used by the War Graves Commission, I am surprised not to hear Hopton Wood Stone being mentioned at all. Hopton Wood Stone is a Carboniferous Limestone, off-white to buff in colour, and sparsely fossiliferous, which is quarried in the Wirksworth area of Derbyshire. It has been used extensively in the local area on building facades of public buildings, and is still used today as an ornamental stone in modern fireplace surrounds.
I have read it was used by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as an alternative to the Jurassic Portland Stone, on account of its remarkable similarity. With reference to a conference paper by Ian Thomas (2008), Director of the National Stone Centre in Worksworth, its historical use by the CWGC was significant, amounting to over 120,000 headstones by 1939. The paper also refers to 100-200 headstones per year still being produced for the CWGC at the time of writing. My understanding is that Hopton Wood Stone was also widely used as an alternative to Portland Limestone in the rebuilding of London after the Blitz.
Mark Cope
God or Gaia required 27 January 2015
Sir, One characteristic of the anthropic principle, not addressed by David Waltham, is that it does not work into the future. If sentient life is here merely due to the chance of Earth throwing 35 consecutive sixes then there is no guarantee of throwing another. Looking at the risks encountered over the last 70 years - totalitarianism; nuclear proliferation; CFC's and climate change for example - would seem to illustrate the point well. For me the arguments Waltham presents support the need for God and/or Gaia to explain our present day miracle and to underpin our future.
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The first Masterworks concert of the Quad City Symphony's 99th season was a checkerboard of strengths and weaknesses. Huge, transcendent moments filled the Adler Theatre in the October 5 concert, but when things got quiet, discrepancies in tone color, balance, and rhythm appeared.
Under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Mark Russell Smith, the orchestra explored four diverse approaches to composition in reverse chronological order. Commissioned by the Quad City Symphony, the world premiere of American composer Michael Torke's Oracle opened the program, followed by fellow countryman Aaron Jay Kernis' Musica Celestis, featuring only the strings. The mid-20th Century's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, by British composer Benjamin Britten – with humorous narration by local media personality Don Wooten – completed the first half. After intermission, pianist Jonathan Biss joined the orchestra for Johannes Brahms' Concerto for Piano No. 1.
The concert was an elegantly designed program that included a variety of contemporary works balanced by a classic masterpiece, but – except for Torke – it was not a good selection of music for this orchestra. In the tutti sections, when all the instruments were played, the mixture of timbre was profuse. Yet as the scoring broke down into smaller instrumental combinations, the differences in individual colors became more problematic. The result was tonal incompatibility both among the same instruments and between instrumental families.
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In February, the Quad City Symphony contacted a representative of Michael Torke with the hope of commissioning a short season-opening piece from the well-known American composer. It was a long shot – a request with a turnaround time of a few months instead of the typical year or two between commissioning and the orchestra's first rehearsal with the completed music.
But Torke was looking for a summer project, a short work to add to his library of titles. "I love those drop-everything-now projects," Torke said in a phone interview in July. "The Quad City thing seemed perfect." With the logistics in place, what remained was finding an appropriate artistic concept and completing the piece before rehearsals in September.
Oracle was composed in a burst of creative energy from mid-June to mid-July. "I think this is going to be one of the best pieces I've ever written," Torke predicted the day after the five-minute composition was completed. "I am so jazzed up about it. It starts off with this kind of 'Pines of Rome' thing, with one variation of the melody warm and juicy, and another noble."
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With its adventurous selection of 20th and 21st Century American music along with a broader sampling from the standard repertoire, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra's upcoming season represents a sharp contrast from its most recent one. Music Director and Conductor Mark Russell Smith said in a phone interview that the challenge was "finding the right balance between the familiar and unfamiliar."
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This year, the orchestra will present works by American composers in four of the six programs and feature two world premieres of music commissioned by the Quad City Symphony organization. "This is what I like in a season," Smith explained. "Giving composers a forum for their work" and providing a "variety, and that's what the audience likes."
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Am I willing to give up the things I know are wrong for me to do. Although I know something is wrong with what I am about to do, do I have the courage not to act. If I act on something that I truly don't know is wrong and later find out that the action caused a problem for me or others I can take corrective actions and put that action in the I need not do that again block. It's when I make mistakes that I learn and grow. I can't afford to hide behind masks and say I didn't know something when the fact is I did and I can't beat myself up when I make a mistake.
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Well, I guess this is about taking responibility for my own actions (or not acgtions). This is very liberating thing because if I take resposibility I also have he chance to be the director of my own life ; I am not driven by the urge to get the next drink anymore. I have choices to lead my life.
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Joker Dharma: chaos philosophy [Dark Knight video, Neem Karoli Baba, Trungpa, Tyler Durden, & Milarepa]
What better way to spend a snowy day in the Rockies than to analyze the components of media pop-culture? The Dark Knight was finally released on video this week. And I now feel obliged to put in my commentary on one of the best villains ever. Let's face it; villains are fascinating. Villains are not only the reason's heroes exist, they define our most iconic heroes and mirror the complexities and darkness of our own lives.
But what else, what are the archetypes. Deconstruct the Joker, take away his violence and you have al-Khidr or any crazy mystic in comic style, the wrench thrower, the coyote, you can even keep the violence and he is Bhairava (sans-matted hair). The Joker character is another incarnation of Tyler Durden brought out of the split-psyche of humanity, the side ruled by chaos and destruction, a veritable force of nature whose only impetus is to derail the constructive impulse. I would say the Joker could almost be a budding Milarepa cutting away the constructs of religion to attain the heart of knowledge, except he falls short accepting the tried/true societal conditioning of evil, wreaking mayhem with violence and destruction, the expected norm of evil and fear. No, the transcendent models of chaos logic are the ones that pull the cultural rug out and flip standardized norms in a way that cannot easily be pinned down.
I immediately think of Neem Karoli Baba and Chogyam Trungpa whose lives and stories refuse to be bound by strict moralities and must either be quantified as divine impulse or shear madness. I would not advocate we all begin a regimen of erratic, irrational behavior but perhaps it would do good to occasionally consider our "normal" worlds, however they are defined, and see what madness informs our reality. Is it not madness that we condone capital punishment, idolize narcissism, anorexia, and that many believe our personal comforts and privileges are more important than the preservation of our life support system i.e., the earth. But that's a soapbox moment, back to the Joker. In the final analysis, this character inspires awe, fear, and confusion because he exhibits disinterest towards the trite and over simplistic concepts of good and evil we so often cling to and scoffs at attempted heroisms defined by chivalry and martyrdom. He embodies incorruptible chaos without logic, law, or code.
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I appreciate your post for many reasons. First, I'll never let my kids see a movie without previewing it first again. This will take some talking out with them. I don't know much about Neem Karoli Baba, and I went looking for controversial information about Chogyam Trugpa Rinpoche quite some time ago when I became interested in Shambhala through Pema Chodron. It's difficult to find the wisdom in drinking yourself to death in your forties, (and I'll admit to ignorance about how true that is) crazy or otherwise. Dramatizations of events are not like the reality, I realize you know that and weren't arguing we need a real Joker – we've already got too many people willing to take life on a whim, too many lives wasted malingering in prisons – there's plently of what you call "incorruptible chaos" and plenty of the flipside of narcissism. I'm a psychiatric nurse; in a sense, I dwell in a land of narcissism and suffering everytime I walk in the door to work (and arguably when I walk back out) I also have a son with a genetic neurodegenerative condition that is slowly robbing him of his ability to care for himself while his mind remains untouched to observe his own decline. Do we need much more incorruptible chaos than that? There is no cure for what he has, I didn't know I was a carrier, nor did my ex-husband, and I can't do ANYTHING to change what is happening to him. I can only try to make his life as meaningful and joy-filled as I can while he is here with us, his family. Our struggle is minor compared to the reality many other people are living with. Chaos philosophy is the norm, trying to find solid ground under our feet is one human adaptation. I think the message gets farther when it comes from Pema, that chaos is what human life is and Buddhism is one path to accepting and being able to live with that. How many people walking out of "The Dark Knight" got that message I wonder? I don't mean to sound holier than thou, violence is just so endemic to human life that comparing what the Joker did to Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche – I guess I don't know enough about either to give an intelligent response. Again though, I prefer Pema Chodron's description of "A Beautiful Mind" which while it still went through the Hollywood treatment showed what so many of us are up against in this life. Honestly, chaos IS the norm if you really look around. We don't need the Joker to show us that, we only need read the newspaper. Still, as I said, I appreciate your article and know it will be of benefit. It already has.
Having now watched the movie, I have a better understanding of your article. Blessings.


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A terse letter from the Collier Building Industry Association over a new policy to shorten building permit intake hours has prompted county officials to compromise.
The county has agreed to take permit applications all day, although at a reduced level after 1 p.m.
County building officials planned to cut back hours beginning this week, saying they needed to close permit intake at 1 p.m. each day to shift employees to the back office to catch up on a backlog of permits.
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The county has received a flood of building permit applications in recent months, with the bulk coming in recent weeks as builders and residents rushed to beat an impact fee hike that took effect July 1.
Collier Commissioners have increased impact fees on new construction 70 percent in recent months, from $17,000 to $29,000, for example, for a 2,000 square-foot house.
Al Zichella, CBIA's elected president, sent a protest letter on behalf of the group's more than 1,400 members last week saying the policy change will have "deep and dire consequences to all commerce in Collier County, as it severely limits the business window for all citizens who do business with Collier County at the Horseshoe Drive offices."
Zichella noted in the letter that the county department is paid for 100 percent by permit fees and now enjoys a $10 million surplus.
"It would appear that not only are we paying too much for the service; we can no longer count on a full business day from that department for our money," Zichella wrote.
On Monday, Zichella said the building industry and the county reached a compromise "after a frank and open meeting" on Friday.
"We can't close the lobby to Collier citizens," Zichella said. "They pay the bills."
County building officials originally justified the change saying permit applications are up 60 percent from January through June compared to the same time last year. They said they needed to shift employees after 1 p.m. to work on clearing out the backlog. The county initially said only service for builder/owners and express permits would be available after 1 p.m.
A spokeswoman for the county, Lisa Koehler, said the county will have counter service open after 1 p.m. for all types of building permit intake. She referred other questions to Community Development and Environmental Services Director Joe Schmitt, who was in meetings and couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
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I don't have a scanner, but I would include my vast collection of tombstone/cemetery photographs. I became fascinated by tombstones of the 1700s and 1800s, and have photographed hundreds and hundred of them, usually with dramatic skies, foliage, etc. The textures of the old stone and lichens and mosses are fascinating to me. But I was told by my last girlfriend that they would not make good presents for friends. Perhaps that's why she's a former girlfriend . . .
I've got tons of unloved photos.
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