“this is from the UK.... University of Southampton”
I’ve noticed that the people in the UK aren’t engaged in such a polar battle between liberals and conservatives as the US - basically because the left has already won there.
As a result, there is often more honesty in these cases, because they don’t fight everything like a war.
It’s like you can find on British university sites the admission that the whole “polar shifts” idea is purely based on a wobbly statistical analysis, and you CANNOT observe some clear evidence on the bottom of the ocean, as you would think from the white line/black line images that you see on Wikipedia.
It is important to know whether the poles “swap”, as we know that the magnetic field has been reducing a LOT, and without the idea of “swaps”, it would greatly bolster the young Earth argument.
Most brits lost their religion long ago, so they don’t seem to realize the liberals are fighting a war with Christians on this issue, so you get more honesty from their academia a lot of the time.
It was a wierd event says Gavin...of the Climate Scientists group....Post #19.
I like that closing sentence -- "future decision-making could be made based on scientific data and not on political expediency". I wouldn't count on it, but that would be great.Caves reveal clues to UK weatherAt Pooles Cavern in Derbyshire, it was discovered that the stalagmites grow faster in the winter months when it rains more. Alan Walker, who guides visitors through the caves, says the changes in rainfall are recorded in the stalactites and stalagmites like the growth rings in trees. Stalagmites from a number of caves have now been analysed by Dr Andy Baker at Newcastle University. After splitting and polishing the rock, he can measure its growth precisely and has built up a precipitation history going back thousands of years. His study suggests this autumn's rainfall is not at all unusual when looked at over such a timescale but is well within historic variations. He believes politicians find it expedient to blame a man-made change in our weather rather than addressing the complex scientific picture.
by Tom Heap
Saturday, December 2, 2000