Cyclone,

Knowledgeable people knew the planet was round long before Galileo came along.

What Galileo showed was that the Earth was not the centre of the cosmos which went against the belief of the Church which held a geocentric model that aligned with the Scriptures.

Only Cyclone stands alone in the commentary herein, with a head not buried in the sand of dangerous ignorance!

The article came with verifiable, via fact-checking, factual data!

Around the time of Galileo, many men of science and letters did literally believe the world was flat and that was the then conventional wisdom?

Even so, belief alone never ever made round world flat!

There are those among us (I'm all right Jack you lot can go visit the nearest taxidermist) who do not want the gravy train ride that coal gave them, to end!

Yet end it must! And amoung the financial community/lenders, about as popular as a Porkchop at a bar mitzvah. With gas a little less popular now, in that community, with carbon tariffs now on the table!

Time for a strong dose of hard reality! We need to transition toward carbon-free nuclear energy! And that nuclear energy is, the cleanest safest and cheapest energy on the planet, i.e., MSR thorium!

Don't want to invest in the requisite R+D? Just want the usual free lunch?

Ok, just don't expect it to be free! But delivered with a whole host of belt and road consequences! He who controls the world's energy, controls the world! And don't say you weren't warned!
Alan B.

1. People had known the earth was round for millennia prior to Galileo. Greek philosophers of the 6th century BC knew the world was round and within 100 years had calculated its circumference pretty accurately.

2. Galileo had nothing to do with finding or proving that the world was round. It was already well known. Galileo showed that the earth moved around the Sun.

3. The idea that people thought the world was flat was a myth created in the 19th century.

4. Its beyond hilarious that we have people like Cyclone and Alan B preening themselves on their superior following of science while falling for these myths and getting the simplest facts wrong.

They aren't following the science, they are simply allowing themselves to be misled by the charlatans.

mhaze,

Even our Stone Age ancestors probably worked it out by observing that the Sun and the Moon just happened to be - yes you guessed it! ROUND.

The only people with their heads in the sand are those like this clown. Some hundreds of peer reviewed papers in the last couple of years have highlighted that the planet is cooling again. Try the figures from Japan, or China, rather than our "homogenized" garbage, corrupted to hell & back.

In South East Queensland we are having the coldest summer in my 30 years here. Days are about average, but I have never before seen everyone bearing jumpers on summer nights.

I suggest he try telling the folk of Texas or the mid west of the USA that wind or even gas is suitable to supply reliable electrical power. It is only coal that is proving at all reliable due to decent stock piles where needed.

An internet mate of mine in mid west USA just came back on the air after 3 days of no power or gas. He has been keeping 5 neighbor families alive because he still has a fuel stove beside his gas/ electric stove, & burns wood in a couple of fire places for home heating.

In fact I suggest Campbell go shout his message in Texas right now. The folk might warm up a bit with the exertion of beating him to a pulp. At least that way he may be useful for something.

A Texan Ditty.

Hi ho Hi Ho
It's off we go
to the snow
to the snow

Where the coal don't glow
Where wind Turbines don't go
Where science denies the snow
Where science denies the snow

Pigs can't fly
Cold people die
Snowed in the lie
Snowed in the lie

Hi ho hi ho
It's off we go
To the snow
To the snow

In Texas we know
More snow than show
A big fat lie we know
A big fat lie we know

Employing diesel generators
Unfreezing all the operators
Dirty dearer CO2 deployers
Dirty dearer CO2 deployers

Hi ho hi ho
It's off we go
To the snow
To the snow

Where the science denies the colding,