At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/paper-gives-new-clue-to-the-de... ... reposted from http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/new-paper-demonstrates-tempe... and the abstract to the paper is at www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n5/full/nclimate1817.html where the question is posed - does co2 cause temperature to rise or does rising temperature cause co2 levels to rise? In other words, have climate scientists and their baggage train been telling porkies, pulling the wool over the eyes of the average joe.

An intriguing and very good piece at http://phys.org/print286551435.html ... a discovery at Uunortoq in Greenland over 50 years ago, thought to be a Viking sea compass used to determine direction, has been reinvestigated and some surprising results have emerged. It is being suggested it was not direction ath was being worked out - but latitude. The paper has been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A which must mean somebody is impressed. The Vikings were sailing the northern Atlantic and its peripheries where there was up to 24 hours of daylight in summer.

At last the Toba super volcano catastrophe idea has been squelched - see www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22355515

We have  all heard in recent weeks, if not days, about the EU directive against certain insecticides used on seeds being banned as a result of environmentalist pressure. Groups like FoE and Green Peace are cock a hoop at the moment, glorying in the smell of victory, and the annoyance of farmers. What this means is that instead of pesticides that biodegrade in the soil as the plant grows and the seed hull is discarded farmers will go back to spraying their crops as they have no choice. Food is an important part of the economy and we all need to eat.