on whether or not certain geologists are crying wolf and that,
And what makes us think this guy even IS a "geologist"?
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Geologist says "Evacuate!"
by cameo-d 36 Replies latest watchtower scandals
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I found this at another forum:
Okay, here is what I have found on him so far....It does not appear that he has had any geological schooling but people do learn in the field. He is definitely not USGS. He is a oil/gas man just trying to make a buck.
[link to www.xing.com]
Here is more that I have found on him. He does seem to have some extensive knowledge in oil, gas and mineral drilling/mining/recovery but this does not a geologist make.
[link to www.sustainableangels.com]
[link to www.worldsnest.com]
The dude very well might believe what he is spouting but I do not. Sure, it will blow someday, but not in our lifetime. His call for an evacuation for a 200 mile radius is just ludicrous.
So, he might not be a total flake, but I'm still leaning towards half of one. -
Elsewhere
I started running yesterday when I saw this. I've stopped at an Internet Cafe to post this.
When should I stop running?
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SacrificialLoon
When you start hearing people speak French or Portugese depending on your direction.
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daniel-p
Here's a quote from an article on US News, Jan 4, 09:
"Bob Smith, who is a seismologist and a great one, is a real straight shooter and is going to tell folks what he thinks, when he has enough information to think something. Ditto for Jake Lowenstern of the USGS. So I believe them when they say that they don't really know at this point what this swarm portends as Yellowstone is very seismically active. ... The odds of a big caldera forming eruption at Yellowstone are really infinitesimal during our lifetime. While the Discovery channel documentary did a fair job of portraying how an eruption might come down, it also did a better job of whipping up anxiety about a very unlikely event. You would be much more productive hiding in your closet avoiding lightning than worrying about a Yellowstone eruption. It's a wonderful thing to ponder and try to get a grip on some of the wild things that happen on our planet, but not something to stay awake about. The last rhyolite lava eruption was 80,000 years ago or so, that's 8 times as long as human civilization and represents roughly half the time modern humans have existed, just to put in perspective. Humans tend to be a bit egocentric thinking that all this stuff is happening to them personally, when it's just happening as part of nature. Anyway, Yellowstone while certainly doing stuff, is not in the same category of likely caldera eruption as Rabaul and Campi Flegrei. ... These quakes were much bigger than the Yellowstone swarm and many many more of them. And the final eruption from 2 volcanoes at the same time turned out to be relatively "small" though it buried the town in ash."
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compound complex
Greetings, Inkling:
Thank you for alerting me to my error. I failed to put "geologist" in quotation marks, giving the flavor of an alleged man of the rocks. My comment below [# 2] has been edited for your review. Of course, when a noun is preceded by the qualifier "so-called," quotation marks do not surround the noun being modified.
I believe the overall intent of my address should be quite clear.
CC
so-called
adj : doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
[syn: alleged, supposed][...] a so-called expert's declaration of impending catastrophe is unwarranted.
Our having been duped by the WTB&TS has no bearing on whether or not certain "geologists" are crying wolf and that, accordingly, one simply wishes to disclose various opinions on the subject up for review.
Compound-Complex
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purplesofa
"Humans tend to be a bit egocentric thinking that all this stuff is happening to them personally, when it's just happening as part of nature."
Love this from daniel-p's post.
purps