Come to think of it, you'd kinda expect a geologist to know that too
If you read the linked article - he says even more stupid things even more closely relate to his field. He denies that humans have the capability of creating significant global warming...and that "Solar Physics" proves this somehow.
I have decided that Plimer is basically lying. He has to know better. He claimed that AGW evidence rests solely in the last 150 years, and as a geologist he knows the earth is 4 billion years. Any geologist worth his salt would surely know that paleoclimatology is an active field and is cited by the majority of climatologists as evidence for AGW.
Anyway - the interesting thing about Plimer is that he stands as an interesting exception to the relationship put forward in the OP. He is fervently anti-creationism and has famously debated Gish. From wiki:
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Plimer is an outspoken critic of creationism and is famous for a 1988 debate with creationist Duane Gish in which he asked his opponent to hold live electrical cables to prove that electromagnetism was 'only a theory'. Gish accused him of being theatrical, abusive and slanderous
Weird that he thinks that 500tonnes of Horse manure on his back garden wouldn't constitute 'pollution'.
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