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At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/the-lovejoy-meltdown/ .... Tim Cullen has sparked interest in this offering as his article (see the link) has been reproduced elsewhere on the blogosphere -

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/why-phi-mars-earth-model-and-... .... and https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/why-phi-a-jupiter-venus-mercu... ... Roger Tall Bloke and guests (such as Old Brew) have been discussing, over the years, the link up between

At http://phys.org/print352015312.html ... it was the failure of the New Orleans levee system that caused the city to flood after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The

  at http://phys.org/print352105901.html ... we have an image of giant filaments on the face of the Sun. Filaments are said to be cooler clouds of

  The Orion molecular cloud  see http://phys.org/print352106488.html. It seems observations from the Herschel space observatory has revealed our galaxy is threaded with filamentary structures on

At http://phys.org/print352044807.html ... many living things can signal to electric fields, either moving or using them to detect prey or enemies. Weak electric fields may

At http://phys.org/print352011250.html ... and https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/global-climate-on-the-verge-o... ... we see that it has taken a decade for the consensus climate people to admit global warming has stalled

                                 at http://phys.org/print352052895.html ... NASAs Dawn spacecraft has beamed back a new image of the surface of Ceres, the so called dwarf planet - otherwise

At http://phys.org/print351971891.html ...   in a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a far away galaxy an extra-galactic jet of ejected plasma is seen to

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/28/study-finds-severe-cold-snap-durin... ... this piece was on Phys Org a few days ago and has now popped up at Anthony's place. Scientists in Frankfurt, Germany,

At http://phys.org/print321252239.html ... an international team of geoscientists have published a paper in Nature Communications (May, 2015) which they hope will revolve one of the

The drought in some parts of Texas and the southern Plains has dramatically come to an end with huge thunderstorms and lashing rain last weekend

  This is an image of the nature and size of the Rift Valley from a position in Sinai and looking across the Gulf of

At www.spaceweather.com ... the start of the noctilucent cloud season - see below for the view above Scotland   Earth orbiting satellites have been photographing

A paper by Nils-Axel Morner in Energy and Environment, volume 22 No 3 (2011), 'Arctic Environment by the Middle of this century' (being the 21st

At http://westerndigs.org/dice-gaming-utah-cave-prehistoric-gambling/ ... I don't suppose they were gambling for money - but may be for their shirts (or was it who was skinning the

Klaus Schmidt, the archaeologist in charge of the excavations at Gobekli Tepe over the last 20 years or so, has recently died. He was based

At www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/ ... there is a short article on pre-industrial levels of co2 which clearly conflicts with the global warming mantra. Determination of co2 in

An article in Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50 (3) page 368-381 (2015) 'Chelyabinsk, Zond IV, and a possible first century fireball of historical importance' by

Going back some weeks ago on chalk oddities, a chalk outlier near Killarney has caused geologists a few headaches. It is described as enigmatic and