At www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/01/28/evidence-suggests-vikings-grew-grain... we learn that the Medieval Warm Period must have been somewhat warmer than the present day temperatures of Greenland as researchers from the Danish National Museum have discovered the Vikings brewed beer and grew grain. The evidence is said to come from a dung hill. At the same web site, see www.icenews.is/index.php/2012/01/28/vikings-explore-hudson-bay/ ..

See www.physorg.com/print247133863.html ... scientists have found that arteries react curiously to external electric fields, according to a new paper in the forthcoming Physical Review Letters. Meanwhile, at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/01/27/space-magnets/ we learn that in the 1930s Hans Alfven proposed the Milky Way contained a huge magnetic field so that incoming cosmic rays could move in spiral orbits along the arms of the galaxy.

The idea of God becoming involved in climate change is not new as the CAGW public relations propaganda people have attempted to embrace every sector of society - or is that brain wash every sector of society. They appear about as successful among church communities as they have been with the rest of the population - some have fallen for the meme and others have resisted the temptation to be swallowed up in the giant bean feast. In fact, notable sceptic churchmen roll off the tongue quite easily - the Bishop of Chester for example.

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120125113147.htm there is a report on research off the coast of Spain near Gibraltar and in the Gulf of Cadiz where sediment cores were drawn up for study. The Strait of Gibraltar re-opened just 6 million years ago, fairly recent in the geological time-scale. Way down on the bottom off Gibraltar the Mediterranean waters are pouring into the Atlantic like a cascade. As the Mediterranean is more salty than the Atlantic it sinks, plunging 1000 metres downslope and scours the sea floor carving out canyons and building up mountains of mud.