Gene Kearns wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:50:04 GMT, Sean Corbett penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:


Dear, Dear, Sean..... I have been published in enough faculty
handbooks and websites to know that there is always at least one
loonie on every faculty. I fear your "Prof Bob Carter" is just such a
creature. Feel free to browse http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/ and you will
notice that James Cook University and the regular faculty don't agree
with your boy's "findings." (Note that your "Prof. Carter" is an
adjunct and, therefore, not even a part of the regular faculty.)



Yeah, Prof. Bob stepped out of line, not marching to the beat of climate
change drummer. A move that is not going to endear you to your collegues.

I remember, I had a bit of a problem back in university because both my
thesis advisors believed in cold-fusion and I was sceptical. I also
disagreed with most of the faculty over the formation of the Sudbury
Basin (half of whom believed it was totally endogenic and half believed
it was exogenic, and everyone said I was just sitting on a fence, but
really, the only explaination for all the evidence is that a meteor
(exo) hit a volcano (endo)).

In the first case I was proved right. In the second case, only God can
ever know what really happened here 1.8 billion years ago.

I've seen science up close, it isn't always pretty. How to get that
grant proposal accepted? In my case, it was make the work appear
economically relevant - sure I'm studying carbonate inclusions in
precambrian fault rocks - but hey, don't you know, that's how to find
the gold. (although we knew there was no mineable gold at this location
despite its superficial resemblance to the second largest deposit in the
world - Timmons, ON)


Here's a quote from the first paragraph of the article. Are you claiming
this statement is false? If so, cite proof that it's false.



Ok, how about the opinion of TWO Professors at James Cook University:
http://www.rainforest-crc.jcu.edu.au...TFLclimate.pdf


Most relevant part of the article:

"Research needs

Future research must provide the
critical information and tools to
develop management plans
aimed at conserving forest
ecosystem processes and
biodiversity in the face of rapid,
unprecedented climate change."


IOW, Prof. Bob should shut TF up because he's upsetting the climate
change grant gravy-train.


D'OH! I promised myself I wasn't going to take Shortwave's bait on this
one .. but .... must ... hit ... send ...