Alastair wrote:

On 6 Sep, 09:38, Graham P Davis wrote:
Alastair wrote:
On 3 Sep, 11:26, Graham P Davis wrote:
Alastair wrote:
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When that great unsung English hero of earth science Professor Coope
first discovered that the climate does change abruptly, he doubted
uniformitarianism, but now only claims that optimism is a bad guide
for earth scientists.

So unsung that I've never heard of him, but that's probably my fault.
However, could you please supply more information on him, full name, when
he discovered that climate changes abruptly, references, etc.



Your optimism that the climate cannot behave in the same way as the
weather behaved in Boscastle or in New Orleans will win you many
friends, but I do not believe it is realistic :-(

That's the exact opposite of what I believe. I've known for forty years
that climate can change suddenly.


Professor Russell Coope was awarded the Geological Society's Prestwich
Prize in 2005
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Prestwich_Medal

I have read his speech but cannot find it now.

Here is a paper he wrote in which he was saying that rapid climate
change happened, before it was confirmed by the Greenland ice cores.

http://www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/...0-%20Coope.pdf

Thanks, Alastair.

I see that, at the end of the piece, Professor Coope refers to sudden
changes in climate being correlated to changes in the NAD. This predates
the recent hype of the so-called discovery of these changes by a decade or
two.

My memories of the book I read in the sixties on ice, which included a
section on the sudden shut-down of the NAD, are a bit rusty. However, I
think Greenland ice-cores had provided some of the evidence for such events
in the past and their effects on the climate. Seems a pity that such
evidence seems to have got lost and had to be re-discovered. A bit of
googling suggests the ice-cores used in the [re-?]discovery date from 1966,
but I'm fairly sure that that date is still later than the publication date
of the book I'd read. The more I learn, the less I know.


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