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2011-06-17 14:50:19 | Request for review of review of Ian Plimer's book | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 121.222.9.229 |
Brian Harrison emailed me a book review of Ian Plimer's book that he's submitting to a website and asked if any of the SkS team could check it for accuracy. Here's a PDF of the book review. Here's some comments from Brian:
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2011-06-17 15:00:46 | ||
dana1981 Dana Nuccitelli dana1981@yahoo... 69.230.102.37 |
Two words: it sucks! | |
2011-06-17 15:27:58 | biochemistry major states | |
jyyh Otto Lehikoinen otanle@hotmail... 85.78.145.85 |
It seems Plimer abandons the results of spectroscopical measurements of the properties of CO2. This indicates he does not trust the methods used in the identification of geological samples, so one may ask if he is a professer of geology. At least it sounds like he would be a bad teacher of geology, and I for one would not be taking a course Plimer has been appointed to instruct based on this incoherence alone. | |
2011-06-17 16:31:25 | Just to clarify... | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 121.222.9.229 |
Brian was asking if we could check HIS review for accuracy, not Plimer's book | |
2011-06-17 17:06:06 | ||
Ari Jokimäki arijmaki@yahoo... 192.100.112.211 |
One minor point: "The concept of the “Tipping point” has been shown to exist in physics, climate, sociology and politics so there is reason to believe that it could exist in climate." I think the word climate should not be in the first list or he is just stating the obvious (if it has been shown that tipping points exist in climate, it is obvious that it could exist in climate). |