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If anybody is interested in reading the sceptic response to the IPCC report they can't go far wrong by going to www.judithcurry.com/2013/09/28/ipcc-diagnosis-permanent-paradigm-paralysis/ ... as it

At http://notrickszone.com/2013/09/26/bastardis-jungs-initial-winter-specul... ... which illustrates how bad news spreads rapidly. In this instance, a forecast of another cold winter. However, out there in mobile phone

While the politicos have been obsessed with CAGW and combing roof tops of the well to do with solar panels, quietly, and in the background,

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/ancient-egyptian-f... ... a few arrowheads and a single spearpoint. Other artifacts were also found but the interesting thing is that this might have been

Well, we know from UK geology that the climate during the Jurassic, in central England, was akin to the modern climate of Florida and the

This is one of those questions we might not really think about, and accept the usual IPCC meme that co2 accumulates in the atmosphere and

We've had Bayesian statistics applied to C14 methodology - providing an average date to get a more reliable fix on a situation for the archaeological

The 'Bad Astronomer' Phil Plait, critical of Velikovsky and the people that take him either seriously or with a grain of salt, seems to have

What in the heavens could have given birth to the concept of Amun, the Ram God. SIS member Gary Gilligan suggests the Van Allen Belts

At www.livescience.com/39307-jerusalem-animal-sacrifice-found.html ... we have Israeli archaeologists sifting through a city dump dating back to the Herodian period where they have found huge numbers of

Biblical Gezer shows evidence of two fiery conflagrations in the early biblical period. One is at the end of the LB age and the other

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/cave-paintings-amo... ... prehistoric wall paintings in the Altxerri cave system in northern Spain are said to date back to 39,000 year ago (safely within

Current World Archaeology 61 also has a piece by Prof Bill Finlayson, on the Levant. Just ten years ago the consensus view was dominated by

Current World Archaeology 61 (10th Anniversary Edition, Oct 2013) - see also www.world-archaeology.com has a short piece on Europe's earliest (so far) bone tools -

One of the abiding images of the early CAGW doomsaying was the chilling prospect of rapidly rising sea levels. Al Gore made a mint out

At www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/09/16/troy-homers-plasma-holocaust/ ... is an hypothesis by Mungo Jupp, on the demise of the cities of Mycenae and Troy. He claims a plasma event was

Nir Shariv of the Racah Institute of Physics in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem can be seen on video addressing the German EIKE conference on

This is the biggest black hole yet. Feast your eyes. Is it a hole or a blast of energy as light? The story is at

Everyone makes fun of climate models - what are they missing? Why are they always running too hot? Why don't they comply with reality? ...

At http://phys.org/print298706437.html ... plasma is a hot gas where molecules become ionised - in effect, charged particles. Plasma is abundant in the universe but on