In the News

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/05/the-problem-with-puffins/ ... we have an article on the decline of the puffins. In a nutshell we have a fine example of how alarmism works.

At https://phys.org/print457947412.html ... results from Cassini's final mission phase show protons of extreme energies between the planet and its rings. A series of 6 article

At https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7252 ... the Voyager 2 spacecraft probe has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system - which suggests it

In this story humans are not the environmental bad guys it would seem. The preaching bit takes a back seat as they are exonerated of

At https://phys.org/print457686574.html ... a new very distant object found in the hunt for Planet X, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Full details are available

At https://phys.org/print457252479.html ... did building blocks for life arrive on earth from space (from comets and meteorites, it is suggested). This article is published in

Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish chemist (they didn't have climate scientists in his day) and he investigated the effect of doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide and

The recent McKitrick and Christy paper on measuring warming in the atmosphere via weather balloon data (over 60 years) in comparison to the results from

At www.spaceweather.com (september 22nd 2018) we learn that the Sun has just crossed the equator and is heading south and changing seasons. This event seems

At https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/caos-cts091718.php ... we have an interesting headline - Chinese led team (from the Chinese Academy of Sciences) shows mass extinction happened in a geological

Evidence of people living in western Australia 50,000 years ago has been discovered in the remote Carnavon Ranges. They lived in the region during a

At https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/2018/09/19/how-constant-is-the-solar-c... ... the IPCC lowered their estimate of the impact of solar variability on the Earth's climate from the already low value of 0.12

At https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uop-sr091418.php ... propelling spaceships without fuel. Mike McCulloch of Plymouth University first came up with the idea of quantised inertia (QI) in 2007. This

At https://astrobites.org/2018/09/17/over_luminous_brown_dwarf/ ... the curious case of the over luminous brown dwarf. It is theorised brown dwarfs form secondarily to main sequence stars. A gas

According to Weather Eye in The Times (of London) earlier this month the recent hot weather in Europe was caused by a huge horseshe shaped

Another video - this time viewable at www.spaceweather.com (September 21st 2018). NASAs latest rocket into space has been a success, deploying the ICESat-2 which is

Robert has sent in another link to a video. This time by Eric Lerner - the Big Bang Never Happened. Go to https://vimeo.com/97608525  

At https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/dr-willie-soon-the-global-blu... ... is actually a link to a video by one of my favourite scientists, the much maligned (by CAGW activists) Dr Willie Soon.

At https://phys.org/print456129859.html ... a researcher at Oxford's department of zoology in collaboration with an Australian scientist has been looking at fossils from Utah collected 25

At https://phys.org/print456129421.html ... astronomers and physicists have revived a previously debunked theory of gravity, arguing that motion within dwarf galaxies would be slower if they