The Tarong coal deposit The Tarong high-grade thermal coal deposit, in the South Burnett area of Queensland 180km NW of the State Capital Brisbane, was discovered in 1968 by a geological team from Conzinc Rio Tinto of Australia (CRA). In the remainder of this essay, I will refer […]
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(Updated March 2026) A glimpse of the Future There is good evidence that the next advance of the earth’s glaciers will occur within the next thousand years or so. A catastrophe for humanity, but I am optimistic enough to suppose that as a species we will survive. Our […]
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Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth (1) Good News! The malign influence of the Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Global Warming meme (CAGW) (2) that more than 40 years ago escaped to infect the world – like a virus from a Wuhan Lab – is finally beginning to collapse. The Evidence is […]
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There is No Wisdom in Crowds The present system of science publishing is broken. Abuse and fraud are common and increasing. Ways of overcoming this are suggested. ************* In 2023, the New Scientist Magazine reported that chemist Jose Manual Lorenzo, an Associate Professor at a regional […]
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The Mathew Effect and other Problems of Science Dr Norman [1], a young scientist at the start of her academic career, writes a technical paper full of new observation and innovative ideas challenging accepted orthodoxy and submits this to a prestigious international Journal. Norman is happy to acknowledge […]
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. George Santayana, 1906 The Scottish kilt and distinctive clan tartans are inventions of Englishmen in the early 18th to early 19th centuries. Most people, Scots and English alike, now believe they are the product of an […]
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BENFORD’S LAW (2) In my previous post (Benford’s Law – 1), I footnoted the following: “Confusingly, there is another Benford’s Law, propounded in 1980 by US physicist Gregory Benford. It states: “Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available”. (Gregory) Benford’s “Law” is an […]
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Benford’s Law (1) In any given set of large (i.e. spanning several orders of magnitude) random numbers, one might expect that all the digits from 1 to 9 should appear, statistically, at each position in the number sequence around 11% (100/9) of the time[1]. In 1881 Canadian […]
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How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observations must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service.” - Charles Darwin, 1861. Experimental science is focused observation guided by emergent theory. Geologists exploring for minerals are experimental scientists. They study […]
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Climate change explained in three graphs (1) So, geologists observe, a cycle Hath smaller cycles that on them prey And these have yet smaller ones to bite ‘em And so proceed ad infinitem Thus, every Era in its kind Repeats all those that come behind RM (after […]
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