Saturday, March 15, 2014

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE WATTS

Just as there is no political hypothesis so absurd that two Nobel laureates cannot be found to endorse it, there is no geophysics news so irrelevant to climate policy as to avoid a blog post by those two past masters of distraction, Messrs. Watts & Eschenbach of WUWT. 

To test this axiom, readers should note how long it takes them to declare peace in the water wars of our times by invoking newly discovered oceans of the stuff lying underfoot just a few hundred miles down, and a few thousand degrees up the thermocline. The clock started Saturday, with an Anonymous coolista hailing Time magazine's account of the discovery of hydrated silicate phases in the Earth's upper mantle: