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At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/variable-sunshine-researchers... ... this was also taken from PhysOrg - why does the Sun vary in brightness? The result of research - it fluctuates because

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/08/22/most-of-the-recent-warming-co... ... Jennifer Marohasy and co-author John Abbot, a computer scientist, have written a number of articles on global warming that are in the

At https://phys.org/print422274566.html ... Rice University geophysicists have developed a method that uses the average motion of hot spots to determine how fast plates are moving.

Gary sent in this link, www.godkingscenario.com/blog/extraterrestrial-banded-iron-formations/ ... banded iron consists of alternating layers of silica and iron rich bands ...   .... layers of iron

At https://phys.org/print421653227.html ... researchers at the University of Southampton have been looking at the thickness of Earth's continents (results published in the journal Science) by

Sorry about the amount of climate change posts in the last week but here we go again. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/11/dr-judith-curry-explains-the-real... ... which features Dr Judith Curry

At https://phys.org/print421584715.html ... a house sized asteroid will whizz past the Earth on October 12th, we are told, well within the orbit of the Moon

At https://phys.org/print421573007.html ... human teeth from a cave on Sumatra has been analysed and it seems they date back over 60,000 years ago. This date

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/11/when-the-model-models-itself/ ... is an interesting read. A climate scientist on falsifiability (or the lack of it in climate science) said, climate models are carefully

I've already done a post with the title of Clive James, author and journalist and former TV personality. Hence, the above title - although this

The Chinese have jumped big time into the global warming controversy - see for example https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/08/09/warm-periods-in-the-20th-cent... ... or at https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/09/warm-periods-in-the-20th-century-... .. with both derived from

At https://phys.org/print421408278.html ... there are a lot more black holes in the Milky Way than previously thought according to a University of California Irvine study.

The quality of climate change research appears to be ever more hysterical. We have had one missive suggesting we should not have dogs and cats

Peter M James has a new article at www.ncgt.org June issue. He has been a long time critic of Plate Tectonics and notes that over

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/summer-2017/article/ancient-dna-rev... ... It seems that DNA confirms that the people of Crete and the Greek mainland, including the Mycenaeans, are all closely related in

When climate change, as in catastrophic global warming, holds hands with archaeology, the latter always comes out the loser and the results are worse than

At https://phys.org/print420432849.html ... scientists are hoping to get a better handle on Zealandia during an exploration that began this week in Australia. As a geologist

At https://cometresearchgroup.org/blog/ ... we learn that Phil Silvia, along with Younder Dryas scientists Malcolm Le Compte, have collated field data from Tall al-Hammam, the proposed

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/scientists-spy-new-evidence-o... ... that scientists think they have found evidence of water in the interior of the Moon. The origin of water in the interior

Henry Zemel established the Caeno Institute a number of years ago in order to research certain topics such as ancient history and calendars. Go to