Doh! Every idiot can see that rocks don’t move. Those seashells in Denver formed spontaneously. WTF was Wegener thinking of?
Wegener and his Critics
Since his ideas challenged scientists in geology, geophysics, zoogeography and paleontology, it demonstrates the reactions of different communities of scientists. The reactions by the leading authorities in the different disciplines was so strong and so negative that serious discussion of the concept stopped. One noted scientist, the geologist Barry Willis, seemed to be speaking for the rest when he said:
further discussion of it merely incumbers the literature and befogs the mind of fellow students.
Barry Willis’s and the other scientists wishes were fulfilled. Discussion did stop in the larger scientific community and students’ minds were not befogged. The world had to wait until the 1960’s for a wide discussion of the Continental Drift Theory to be restarted.
This all sounds vaguely familiar:
“John Ernst Worrell Keely (September 3, 1837 – November 18, 1898) was a US inventor from Philadelphia who claimed to have discovered a new motive power which was originally described as “vaporic” or “etheric” force, and later as an unnamed force based on “vibratory sympathy”, by which he produced “interatomic ether” from water and air. Despite numerous requests from the stockholders of the Keely Motor Company, which had been established to produce a practicable motor based on his work, he consistently refused to reveal to them the principles on which his motor operated, and also repeatedly refused demands to produce a marketable product by claiming that he needed to perform more experiments.
He secured substantial investments from many people, among whom was John Jacob Astor.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ernst_Worrell_Keely
That is about what we are experiencing with Climatology only now it is on a larger scale! No substance just thin “Air”. Well maybe “Heavy” air, what with the molecular weight of CO2 and all!
Wegener’s critics blasted him because they could NOT conceive of a mechanism for the continental land masses to drift apart. They totally ignored the vast evidence he presented to support the notion that SAmerica-Africa and NAmerica-Europe were once joined before the Mesozoic. In parallel with today, no one asked the critics to explain the FACTS that Wegener had stated. They simply dissed him because his ideas weren’t blessed by the established scientific “consensus”
So today, we have a few scientists (Fritz-Larsen, Christiansen, Spencer, Lindzen, and others) proposing that the sun’s magnetic activity interacts with the galactic cosmic ray flux to produce variations in atmospheric ionization that impacts cloud formation that impacts solar heating of the Earth’s surface, which affects weather/climate over decadal time scales. The reaction of established climate “science” is to circle wagons around the solar “constant” notion in an effort to negate the sun’s effect on global weather/climate. Fools. Ask yourself – “Is it hotter during the day (sun-up) or during the night (sun-down)?” Ahem, I thought so.
Galileo faced the same opposition about the Earth circling the sun.
The CO2 alarmists will be slapped down by science and history sooner or later. Sooner if the press grows some cojones and actually investigates/reports or if official committees actually demand data, methodology, and all the things we normally expect from the scientific method. Later if politicians and enviro pressure groups succeed in demagoging the issue as a struggle between Big Oil and the masses. What crap-ola.
What do you mean the earth circles the sun! It is plain a day follows night that the sun rises in the east and set in the west. It has to be circling the earth for that to happen!!!
That big ball of fire in the sky can effect our weather patterns and energy budget? Are you sure?
I keep mentioning another example…google “Reg Sprigg” to find why it took almost a century for Precambrian complex lifeforms to be recognized by the usual suspects, ie establishment scientists
John Muir turned the geologic world on its head when he correctly described the forces that created Yosemite valley. Muir whose formal education ended at the age of eleven. If he were alive today he would not have any published papers or degrees behind his name, and we would be told not to listen to him. Quack.