Geo-engineering from the '40s.

(via C. Pursell's Technology in Postwar America, 2007)
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This will be handy around here: The Hovind Scale. It's a metric for calculating the craziness of a creationist's comment from 0 (scientific and honest) to 100 (dishonest insanity).
Excellent find. Mother Earth looks introspective. Perhaps she's second guessing her planet's course of evolution - "Geh, get off-a me already, ya fat basta'd!"
Most of that there heavy machinery doesn't run too well without oil. It seems that mother earth is past a bit past her peak in that regard so maybe we'll just get to enjoy more of her natural wrinkles after all.