In the News

At https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/08/massive-ancient-unde... ... and here we have another fake news media outlet, and surely so as they are leaders in exaggerating the effects of CAGW

Also at the fake new Daily Mail we have another interesting story - go to www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4201396/Were-WAVES-blame-great-d... ... which picks up on a story repeated at

Gary sent in this link - www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4201328/Study-identifies-cause-s... ... on the day after Wikipedia banned the Daily Mail claiming it was a source of fake news.

At https://phys.org/print405675862.html ... we learn there was what is thought to be advanced solar activity smack bang in the middle of the Mid Holocene Warm

  ... an image of a blue jet of lightning leaping up from the atmosphere of the earth. The picture was taken by a Danish

At http://notrickszone.com/2017/02/06/35-scientific-papers-global-sea-level... ... in this post the blog author seeks to show rising co2 levels will not cause glaciers to melt and therefore sea levels

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/uoe-hoa020617.php ... an update on the earthworks and human impact on the western Amazonian rainforest. Research s ongoing - aided and abetted by logging

At www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/31/saturns-rings-contain-millions-m... ... Saturn's rings contain millions of moonlets - or should that say pieces of debris. Yes, the news flash does say millions of

The black hole feeding frenzy theory is back, hot on the press at https://phys.org/print405603958.html ... and not only that the feeding frenzy is breaking records.

At https://earth-pages.co.uk/2016/10/14/scablands-megaflood-hypothesis-temp... ... which is last year's story. An adaptation of the megaflood theory into a succession of floods as a result of the discovery

At http://notrickszone.com/2017/02/02/could-a-new-global-temperature-recons... ... which poses an unusual question - are ice cores useful in reconstructing 20th century temperature? I've always imagined it takes quite a

At https://phys.org/print405334172.html ... we have one of the more exciting science findings in recent years. Earth's water may have originally been formed 'deep within it's

At http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2017-archive/january/discovery-of-new-fos... ... the fossil loriciferan is so small it was thought to be fossilisable.    ... It is in fact a microfossil and was

At https://phys.org/print405251294.html ... Japanese researchers have been looking at a red spot on Pluto. It may have developed, they suggest, after a collision. It is

It seems that Baltic hunter gatherers took up farming in a piecemeal fashion and there is no evidence of admixture with migrants from Anatolia. It's

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170131104433.htm ... a paper by RB Hayes of North Carolina State University in Nuclear Technology (2017) claims there is a flaw in the radio-isotope

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/01/still-far-more-worrisome-than-glo... ... just noticed this one after visiting Anthony Watts place. Solar physicist Leif Svalgaard informed Anthony of the possibility of a Carrington style

At https://www.sciencenews.org/article/cow-carved-stone-paints-picture-of-e... ... we have a new image of the auroch with dots on an engraved stone in Palaeolithic Europe, roughly 38,000 years ago.   

At https://phys.org/print405174346.html ... ancient DNA reveals continuity between stone age and modern populations in East Asia. The DNA came from human remains found in a

After looking at (last week) the explanation for rapid bursts of x-rays and ultra violet light from the Electric Universe perspective (courtesy of Stephen Smith)