July 4, 2015 — NEW JERSEY — In direct response to Lincoln Hollister’s June 10 op-ed titled “As N.J. sea levels rise, politics trumps science,” how tragic for such a distinguished professor of geology to profess such bunk.
Let us all agree on one fact, geologists study non-living matter –rocks, soil, sand, minerals. Hence, they are not experts in the field of marine biology, and would not be the “go to” scientists to determine harm from a seismic ocean blasting study led by the Rutgers Geology Dept. Would you go to a plumber for heart surgery? So while it’s a free country and they are welcome to an opinion about the effect of the Rutgers study on marine life – 250-decibel blasts, every five seconds, 24 hours a day for 30 days, in a tiny (as the ocean goes) area of ocean off Barnegat Light – it is not a studied one, and should be taken with a grain of salt.
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