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State of Play
27 September 2013 > Climate changeIf 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

Rapid dissemination of 'bad news' will invariably prevail
26 September 2013 > Climate changeAt 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

Fusion ... nearly there
26 September 2013 > ElectromagnetismWhile the politicos have been obsessed with CAGW and combing roof tops of the well to do with solar panels, quietly, and in the background,

Jaffa and the Alps
26 September 2013 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Was the globe ice free in the Dinosaur Age?
26 September 2013 > GeologyWell, we know from UK geology that the climate during the Jurassic, in central England, was akin to the modern climate of Florida and the

How long does co2 remain in the atmosphere?
26 September 2013 > Climate changeThis is one of those questions we might not really think about, and accept the usual IPCC meme that co2 accumulates in the atmosphere and

Bayesian Statistics
26 September 2013 > Ancient historyWe've had Bayesian statistics applied to C14 methodology - providing an average date to get a more reliable fix on a situation for the archaeological

Slating the Plait
24 September 2013 > Climate changeThe 'Bad Astronomer' Phil Plait, critical of Velikovsky and the people that take him either seriously or with a grain of salt, seems to have
Amun. the Ram God
24 September 2013 > ElectromagnetismWhat in the heavens could have given birth to the concept of Amun, the Ram God. SIS member Gary Gilligan suggests the Van Allen Belts

Animal slaughter in the Herodian Temple
24 September 2013 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Gezer
24 September 2013 > ArchaeologyBiblical Gezer shows evidence of two fiery conflagrations in the early biblical period. One is at the end of the LB age and the other

Cave Paintings in Spain
24 September 2013 > ArchaeologyAt 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

Reassessing the Neolithic
24 September 2013 > ArchaeologyCurrent World Archaeology 61 also has a piece by Prof Bill Finlayson, on the Levant. Just ten years ago the consensus view was dominated by

The Neanderthals Rediscovered
24 September 2013 > ArchaeologyCurrent 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 -

Sea Level Change ... in the consensus opinion
22 September 2013 > Climate changeOne of the abiding images of the early CAGW doomsaying was the chilling prospect of rapidly rising sea levels. Al Gore made a mint out

Mungo Troy
22 September 2013 > Ancient historyAt 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 at EIKE 2013
22 September 2013 > PhysicsNir Shariv of the Racah Institute of Physics in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem can be seen on video addressing the German EIKE conference on
The big blast in the sky
22 September 2013 > ElectromagnetismThis is the biggest black hole yet. Feast your eyes. Is it a hole or a blast of energy as light? The story is at

How to get a model to work?
21 September 2013 > Climate changeEveryone makes fun of climate models - what are they missing? Why are they always running too hot? Why don't they comply with reality? ...

Plasmoids
20 September 2013 > ElectromagnetismAt 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