Society for Interdisciplinary Studies

The Thunderbolts newsletter has announced (August 4th) that Dave Smith, editor of the 'Thunderblog' at www.thunderbolts.info will make a prresentation of the Electric Universe hypothesis (see http://live.worldsci.org ) this saturday coming.

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-cosmoclimatology-is-real.html is a report on a paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research 142 (2010) which comes out in support of Henrik Svenmark's hypothesis. The Passive Atmospheric Sounding instrument onboard Enviset (MIPAS-E) from July 2002 to March 2004 were used to investigate a possible link between galactic cosmic rays and mid altitude to high altitude clouds.

At the same web address and the same piece Sprott says the barycentric orbit affecting the weather also effects sea levels. It is illogical to ascribe a rise in sea levels as being due to an increased volume of water, he siad. The level of the world's oceans are affected by the location of the barycentre - and this alters due to planetary influences. Hnece, the rise and fall of sea levels has an oscillation tuned into the solar system = the wave theory.

At www.scoop.co.nz/stories/print.html?path=SC0811/S00028.htm ... a press release from the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition on November 11th 2008 can be found at this web address, with the title, How Barycentric Orbits Influence Climate and was made by Dr Jim Sprott, OBE, MSc., PhD., FNZIC, a chemist and forensic scientist in Auckland. He warned the new minister for Climate Change (an AGW advocate) that projections by the IPCC are simplistic, superficial, and wrong etc etc.

At www.physorg.com/199979495.html there is a news report of a paper in the August 2nd issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in which a joint Brazilian and US research team (with strong environmentalist connections) are said to have studied the effects of drought on the Amazon rainforest.

The Sun is waking up according to NASA - see www.physorg.com/print199985777.html which  has an image of a filament of plasma blasted from the surface (plus access to a video clip)

Are icy centaurs between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune a threat to the earth? is the headline of a piece by Casey Kazan at www.dailygalaxy.com August 2nd ... He says the greatest threat to earth comes from comets and NASA has found it difficult to keep a track on these objects. Most comets are on orbits that enter the inner solar system at intervals of two to three hundred years.

At http://archaeology.about.com/od/artandarchitecture/a/atacama_glyph.htm there is a post on geoglyphs from the Atacama Desert in Chile, and how they were made. Geometric shapes are common, such as circles, concentric circles, circles with dots, rectangles, crosses, arrows, parallel lines, rhomboids, all of the symbols are also common in pre Hispanic ceramics and textile design.

Well, actually it isn't new but has been around since 2008, but after months of refusing to acknowledge there was a problem with the data used in the model it has all come out in the wash - strangely, as a result of Tamino at www.realclimate.org having a go at Andrew Montford's The Hockey Stick Illusion, the big selling book written by the blog author going under the pseudonym of Bishop Hill, it has finally been admitted that the model is flawed.

Current World Archaeology 42 (August 2010) has some information that might be interesting (see the web site www.archaeology.co.uk ) such as the arrival of modern humans in North Africa is being now dated to 80,000 years ago. We also learn that the once huge fruit and nut forest in central Asia is rapidly disappearing as a result of fires, logging, and population pressure.