In the News

At www.scmp.com/tech/science-research/article/1856329/many-global-warming-s... ... which is the South China Morning Post, apparently read at times by Andrew - see www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/9/9/wrong-speed-dating.html ... and concerns a paper in

At http://phys.org/print360921973.html ... evidence of Palaeolithic hunter gatherers grinding oats has been found in southern Italy - a stone pestle with bits of grain still

Mike Parker Pearson's Stonehenge theory has taken a bit of a tumble with the discovery of 90 buried standing stones at Durrington Walls. He theorised

An article in Physics Today (Sept, 2014, page 32) by David King and Mark Boslough, describes what happened when the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded in an

At http://phys.org/print360468954.html ... black holes are strange affairs. They refuse to allow anything to escape from out of their clutches - even light itself. No

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2015/9/5/temperature-questions.html ... the El Nino brewing in the Pacific is causing a lot of agitation amongst the CAGW faithful. Why an entirely natural cycle

Brian Sherwood Jones forwarded this link www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html ... the first volume of the 'History of Cartography' was published in 1987 - and another three books

  At http://phys.org/print360320788.html ... it has been found that European domesticated pigs have far more genetic links to the wild European boar population than previously

A digital reconstruction of the continental shelf underneath the North Sea basin is about to take place, we are told, following the allotment of a

Do you like walnuts? They were a valuable trade commodity in the past, spreading out along the Silk Road, from  Persia to China in the

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milutin_Milankovitch ... there is some surprising information about the man a lot of catastrophists regard as an arch villain of unifomitarianism, infamous for his

  What is this supposed to represent? It is nine feet in length. Is it the coma of a comet, or a plasma column, or

A good take on cosmic impacts and any kind of catastrophe can be found by going to https://cometstorm.wordpress.com/a-different-kind-of-climate-catastrophe/ ... Dennis Cox is an ex military

  At http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0302-startling-changes-... ... we have giant holes created when pingos erupted after filling with gas. The craters are found on the Yamal peninsular in

At www.abdn.ac.uk/news/8083/ ... the Rhynie Man carries an axe of a type associated elsewhere with animal sacrifices. He also wears a hat or headdress and

At http://phys.org/print359743299.html ... IRIS and Hinode telescopes and satellites - looking at the Sun. Why is the Sun so hot? Ideas being explored, filaments, Alfven

NASAs Dawn spacecraft spotted a tall conical mountain on Ceres It stands 4 miles high and the perimeter is sharply defined - no rubble or

At http://notrickszone.com/2015/08/26/suppression-of-science-former-noaa-me... ... it seems CAGW science actively connived and went out of its way to actually ban mention of natural cycles of warming and

At www.livescience.com/52017-catastrophic-volcanoes-caused-biggest-extincti... ... geologists working in Siberia (Russian and American) are blaming volcanics for the extinction event at the Permian boundary, a somewhat obvious discovery

I don't know what the fruit of sycamore trees might be - I only know the ones with seeds that we used to spin like