Quote from atozcom:
No. Geology is more grounded in the sense that they dig up stuff from the ground. Geology is also using past data to explain past occurrence. Geology has not explain a lot of the past. Is it the Geologist or seismologist who cannot predict earth quake accurately!!! I live in California. Their prediction of the Big One in the next few hundred years is a concern to me, but I am not moving.
I have to go back to what I have said before that human being has never done anything to the earth that are both global AND long term. OK, let say Global means global, long term means at least a thousand year. Nothing.
No. Some animals, fish, birds go extinction do not count because they go extinction with or without human!!!
Hmmm. I can see what you mean, but............i think your being churlish as to the value of said data, "past" material in its importance as a predictive measure.
Maybe i wasnt addressing the issue directly, but its actually difficult to do so-and if your a "now" type person, i guess it would'nt be a concern, as you state, gotta die sometime, of something.
Sure, the predictive value is-unreliable, maybe downright dodgy; that in itself doesnt bother me,its the lack of commonsense, such as the total failure, in fact inability to even provide warnings for event that ARE known.
Currently, after the asian new years tsunami wiped out huge areas and populations, lo-and behold now they can provide a tsunami warning throughout the asia pacific in the space of hours.
Yay! Except they had all the technology, in fact the information itself, but it wasnt broadcast due to economic concerns, and some previous false alarms.
I guess my concern is human nature, incompetence and hysteria, not the actual natural (geophysical ) threat.
Humans are their own worst enemy, and your post reminded me of that fact, depressing as it is, despite your complete disregard for species.
But you know what? Yeah, heaps of species have been wiped out directly by human activity, the great auk, the dodo, the passenger pidgeon, the thylacine, irish elk, elephant bird, moa, harpagornis, european bison, and maybe even cave bear, just for starters, but-the alternative is they'd have lived as caged exhibits in a zoo, thats the reality.
I completely dispute that many of these species would have simply become extint anyway,( in geologic time maybe, yes) but looking at the current situation-they have more dignity as museum exhibits, than being poked, prodded, used for experiments, or entainment by people.
