[who_would_fardels_bear]

You would think that by now there would be rather tight binding between the several scientific fields aimed at discovering our past: archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, dendrochronology, etc.

Yet these discoveries are reported in a "Gee Whiz!" fashion without any reference to the current global climate debate.

How splintered are these peoples' brains?

[onedoug]

,,,and oil exploration.

[Smokin' Joe]

How splintered are these peoples' brains?

Academia:

BS degree: you know a little about everything in the field.

MS degree: You have chosen an area to learn more about, so now you know a bunch about some of the topic.

PhD: you have intensely studied a small sector or topic in your field: Now you know almost everything about very little.

Somewhere out there you know all there is to know about almost nothing.

Note the oil company folks, who often think 'out of the box' in order to find the next big play, are the ones who noticed...

[Bigg Red]

Yet these discoveries are reported in a “Gee Whiz!” fashion without any reference to the current global climate debate.

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Good point.

Of course, this find was uncovered through the work of those evil oil companies....