I received my first ever copy of Cosmos magazine today(September issue). The 112 page glossy has some good stories including a piece titled 'Pulsar a stellar double act' (pg 23) that explains how scientists at the Univeristy of British Columbia,Vancouver, are still trying to disprove Einsteins's General Theory of Relativity.
Why is it OK to keep challenging Einstein's Theory of Relativity, but not some of our less predictive theories like 'anthropogenic global warming'(AGW)?
This all reminded me of the 'two laws' I wrote down on a scrap of paper years ago and posted here:
Harris's First Law:
Belief in the truth of a theory is inversely proportional to the precision of the science.
Harris's Second Law:
The creativity of a scientist is directly proportional to how much he knows, and inversely proportional to how much he believes.
Another result from studying ice cores;
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/News_and_Information/Press_Releases/story.php?id=99
Hi Geoff
The facility is called ICELAB and ANSTO did some work on the cores rvealing CO2 changes over the years.
Not sure about the industrial revolution link as it shows a decrease to 1600 then back to the median ~1800 followed by a rapid increase to now.
The industrial revolution was confined to Europe and the US, rest of world remained agrarian.
The first Industrial revolution was around 1750-1830 and the second wave when they started burning coal for steam for power generation.
http://www.ansto.gov.au/nugeo/ams/ams_ngacbroc5P.pdf