Robert W. Felix

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{{cquote|Is Felix a climatologist, a volcanologist or an oceanographer? Er, none of the above. His biography describes him as a "former architect". His website is so bonkers that I thought at first it was a [[Poe's Law|spoof]]. Sadly, he appears to have believed what he says.|||[[George Monbiot]]<ref name=Guard>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2005/may/10/environment.columnists Junk Science], Monbiot in The Guardian</ref>}}
'''Robert W. Felix''' was a [[crank]] extraordinaire promoting his own brand of [[Earth changes]], which acted as a framework that he could [[shoehorning|shoehorn]] various other types of crankery into. All of his "theories" revolved around [[pole shift]]s and cosmic rays.  

==''Ice Age Now''==
Felix believed the reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles is imminent and that their reversal causes environmental cataclysms which lead into [[ice age]]s. One of his two websites was ''Ice Age Now'', which was where he peddled this facet of his theory of everything. ''Ice Age Now'' is mostly dedicated to [[global warming denial]], [[survivalism]] (better stock up on dry goods and fuel), [[conspiracy theories]] (he believed the government is covering up evidence of the coming ice age), and [[abiotic oil]] crankery. The sidebar is a long laundry list of [[denialist]] [[PRATT]]s, which makes it like [http://www.skepticalscience.com/ Skeptical Science] without the rebuttals.  The "news" section seems to exist mostly to document any time at which a snowflake falls anywhere in the world (proof of the coming ice age!) and parrot whatever the latest denialist idiocy is, usually something from [[Piers Corbyn]] or [[Tim Ball]]. He also hawked his thoroughly "researched" books here.

[[George Monbiot]] specifically debunked one of his claims, that 555 of 625 of the Earth's mountain glaciers are advancing.<ref name=Guard />

==''Evolutionary Leaps''==
Evolutionary Leaps was Felix's other site where he pushed a deranged (but somewhat original, at least) [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] version of [[evolution]]. He basically took [[Stephen Jay Gould]]'s ideas about [[punctuated equilibrium]] and shoehorned his Earth changes crankery into it. According to Felix, the pole shifts that cause ice ages are responsible for [[mass extinction]]s with one element of these events being fiery carbon nanodiamonds raining from the skies. That's where the abiotic oil crankery played into his grand "theory." [[WorldNutDaily]] columnist [[Jerome Corsi]] occasionally makes guest posts on the subject. Felix claimed evolution is driven by cosmic rays and other [[radiation]] in addition to these pole shifts. To do this, he drew on a number of old crank tomes (mostly [[Immanuel Velikovsky]] and some [[creationist]]s) and fabricated "facts" and mixed it with generously [[cherry-picking|cherry-picked]] and [[quote mining|quote mined]] research done by actual [[evolutionary biologist]]s, [[paleontology|paleontologists]], and [[archaeologist]]s.

==Quotes on Felix==
{{cquote|With the publication of his chapter "Fatal Flaw," author Robert W. Felix joins such luminaries as Charles Darwin, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Maya Angelou, Aldous Huxley and Walt Whitman.|||Robert W. Felix on Robert W. Felix}}

==See also==
*[[Alan Caruba]], a frequent contributor to Ice Age Now and promoter of Felix's crankery.
*[[Crank magnetism]] applies in spades.
*[[Vault-Co]] recommends Ice Age Now.

==References==
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