The relative crudeness of the work suggested until now that the works were copies, but research published in the magazine Sapiens by the architect David Agulló and the geologist Daniel Barbé shows that they pre-date Gaudí's signature buildings and were in fact prototypes for features in Park Güell, the Sagrada Familia and the nearby Colònia Güell, all of which Gaudí was working on at the time.
Ian Plimer, a geologist and prominent critic of mainstream climate change science, made donations totalling $37,500 to the Liberal party in Queensland and Western Australia in the lead-up to the 2013 federal election.
Q: So you worked in Australia as a geologist, toured here to promote Merchants of Doubt and had an academic role at the University of Western Australia, so you've seen a bit of how things have played out.
I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change, especially not from a relatively small country like Australia Rinehart has twice supported Australian speaking tours of UK climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton.
Q: How did you move from being a geologist working in Australia for the Western Mining Corporation to being a scholar of the history of science?
Abbott quotes from a book by "Australia's leading geologist, Professor Ian Plimer" who is a mining entrepreneur appointed in recent years as a director to the boards of several of Gina Rinehart's mining companies.
His father was a scientist – a geologist who did mapping for the government – and yet was politically assertive enough to emigrate to Spain in the mid-1980s because of Margaret Thatcher.
This week the long-serving head of Romania's intelligence service was also forced out.Mr Constantinescu, a geologist with more of a professor's manner than a sheriff's, cannot change much on his own.
And Indian bureaucrats fuel these fears with obsessive secrecy about all water data.Bashir Ahmad, a geologist in Srinagar, Kashmir who studied the Baglihar dam, gives grim warning about the Indians' future intentions: "They will switch the Indus off to make Pakistan solely dependent on India.
Euan Nisbet, a Zimbabwean geologist and climate scientist, speculates that after a century or two of further warming the island may be green from top to toe.With plants in place and seed banks built up in the soil, such a greening might continue unassisted.
The Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, has had to pump water out of its basement at huge cost.Berliners now use only about 200m cubic metres of water, whereas they should be using at least 300m, says Manfred Schafhauser, a geologist who did a study for the local chamber of commerce.
