In the News

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140109132650.htm ... the Kauri tree grows in Australia. It's close relative the Dammar grows in Indonesia - but neither grows in the Americas. However,

One new branch of Doomsaying CAGW is that the oceans are about to lose lots of carbon but here we have a paper that puts

At http://phys.org/print308478725.html ... astronomers are looking forwards to a collision at the heart of our galaxy. Mind you, it was supposed to have happened last

Lots of handringing in mainstream media over a new terminology in the CAGW vocabulary, the Polar Vortex. In the past this phenomenon has been described

At http://phys.org/print308400922.html ... a cosmic body orbiting a star about 440 light years away is causing astrophysicists a bit of a knotty problem. What is

Brian Cox, on BBCs 'Stargazing Live' (9th January 2014), made a remark about recently discovered exoplanets where they believe it 'rains silica' (or raining glass

A different perspective on Brown Dwarfs can be viewed at www.space.com/24192-stormy-weather-brown-dwarfs-aas223.html ... violent storms and molten iron rain 'may' be a common occurrence on 'failed'

At www.nature.com/news/geology-north-america-s-broken-heart-1.14281 ... apparently, a huge rift valley cleaved N America down the middle, one billion years ago - and then failed. Why? At the

At http://geology.com/stories/13/ammolite/ ... gems made from iradescent ammolite are quite striking - a confusion of colours. The colour and gem quality come from a thin

The surprise is that an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere on January 1st and appears to have broken up over the mid Atlantic, not too far

Earthquake lights were considered to be apocryphal in the lobbies of academia, and largely ignored. They were taken up by the likes of Paul Devereux,

Natural Catastrophes during Bronze Age civilisations, edited by Benny Peiser, Trevor Palmer and Mark Bailey, is available to download in pdf version directly from the

Mark Bailey (Armagh Observatory) in 'Sources and Populations of Near Earth Objects: Recent Findings and Historical Implications' which was published in the Proceeding of the

I was out and about this morning, and caught snatches of a Radio 5 talk show on the car radio where the BBC had lined

An alternate view of White Dwarfs - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/the-embarrassed-white-dwarf/

The development of small nuclear units (conventional and thorium) is subject to reams of environmentalist paperwork that is designed to slow down development and hinder

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25593526 ... Japanese archaeologists have discovered the tombe of a brewer in Egypt. His tomb is dated to dynasty 18 or 19 and the

Alfred de Grazia has been made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur - a few days after his 94th birthday. The Legion of Honour is

Piers Corbyn at www.weatheraction.com/pages/pv.asp?p=wact39 (News, January 4th) tells us that the stormy weather of December and the wild behaviour of the Jet Stream was associated

At http://armenpress.am/eng/news/745086/summing-up-armenias-archaeological-... ... Karmir Blur, also known as Teishibaini, was the capital of Urartua, located near the modern city of Yerevan in Armenia. It was