Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian geologist Ian Plimer.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, previously a professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the former director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies. His career has focused largely on the famous Broken Hill ore deposit—a large zinc-lead-silver mine in Australia and has published four first-authored peer-reviewed articles and co-authored eight articles on topics in mining and mineral exploration. He is also one of the co-editors of 2005 edition of Encyclopedia of Geology. He has been a critic of creationism, and has given several media interviews and written six books where he denies the existence of anthropogenic causes of climate change.
The creationists have this creator who is evil, who is small-minded, who is malevolent, and who is not very bright and can't even get his science right. Creationists have made their creator in their own image, in my view.
There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.
The climate stubbornly refuses to co-operate with computer models and the writers of alarmist popular articles and books.
To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not science. To try to predict the future based on just one variable (CO2) in extraordinarily complex natural systems is folly. Yet when astronomers have the temerity to show that climate is driven by solar activities rather than CO2 emissions, they are dismissed as dinosaurs undertaking the methods of old-fashioned science.
Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions of life are normal. Planet Earth is dynamic and evolving. Climate changes are cyclical and random. Through the eyes of a geologist, I would be really concerned if there were no change to Earth over time. In the light of large rapid natural climate changes, just how much do humans really change climate?