Iain Stewart is best known as the guy who fronted the BBC's Climate Wars programme. Remember that?
Where did you get that graph from?Today, Prof Stewart has an article on the Met Office's newsletter, in which he takes some gentle pot-shots at those geologists who are unimpressed by global warming science and in particular Ian Plimer and Bob Carter. It's grubby stuff in places...
Overall, it is clear that geology is no festering hotbed of anti-warmist revolutionary turmoil, but there are undoubtedly isolated pockets of resistance amid those that fear the economic repercussions.
But it's not all bad..
What is perhaps more problematic to the majority is precisely what role, utility or value the past record of the rocks has in helping contemporary climate change. After all, as Plimer complains: "If we cannot understand the biggest climate changes of all times, then we have to be circumspect about claiming that we can understand modern climate."
To the chagrin of many of my geological colleagues, I think this is one sceptical statement with which I tend to agree.