Posts by timk

ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. - Humans begin artificial CO2 emissions

"Fossil-furtling boffins have announced that the human race was burning things - and irresponsibly releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere - fully a million years ago, some 300,000 years earlier than had been thought."

Someone please tell me this nonsense is an "Onionsesque" take on the news and not some word processor banging hipster wannabe desperately trying to be ironic.

With such clever use of slang, Mr. Lewis is well on his way to a Wurlitzer prize. Or maybe the auto correct replaces scientist with "boffin" and he can't help it...

Boffins, tourists threaten Antarctica with alien invasion

See my previous post about just because a layperson with no relevant formal training cannot imagine some mechanism of ecological disturbance, that somehow invalidates the mechanism.

What a shame more people don't reply "so what" to more sports scores.

Re: erm...

Yes, that’s exactly right.

Now here’s one for you: Just because you, a layperson with no relevant formal training, cannot imagine some mechanism of ecological disturbance, that invalidates the mechanism that many of us biologists spend our careers studying?

Nice. You should be in American politics.

I should expect as much from a hack virtual rag that seems unable to refer to any science professional as anything but a “boffin.”