In the News

At http://phys.org/print300352509.html ... a core sample from New Jersey geology, in a region once beneath the sea (55 million years ago) has clay bands around

This story is at several places with a different emphasis at some of them. At http://phys.org/print300385973.html ... there was an abrupt climate shift in the

At http://phys.org/print300354398.html ... a paper in Nature Physics shows for the first time, in academic literature, a direct link between solar storms, shock waves and

At http://climateaudit.org/2013/10/08/fixing-the-facts-2/ ... Steve McIntyre illustrates how the climate scientists assembling the IPCC report go out of their way to revise items they see as

At http://phys.org/print300257242.html ... it is being suggested by astronomer Ignacius Ferrin that Comet ISON is beginning to disintegrate - and it has only in the

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/07/climate-change-is-dominated-by-the... .... is a simply put post that explains in easy terms for the layman why increasing levels of co2 are not actually causing

This story is at http://phys.org/print299837731.html ... this has been found on Ngaanyat jarra tribal territory by the Geological Survey of Western Australia and comprises 450

At http://phys.org/print299829375.html ... a site on the River Grande in New Mexico, now a dry and arid spot but one a lush wetland, in the

At http://phys.org/print299948694.html ... astronomers have detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang. It was spied fueling a distant

A guest post at Anthony's site - CAGW and the money involved - go to http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/05/crash-boom-bang/ which is supposed to tell us all how it

Frank Daivs, who contributed a lot of words and computer jiggling to the Tall Bloke's Talk Shop debate on the February Chelyabinsk meteor (over Russia)

At http://phys.org/print299425748.html ... news that a long 900 year temperature record for the eastern Mediterranean has been built, based on tree rings. It exhibits evidence

The BBC News over the weekend had one of those hushed thrall like monologues on the subject of supervolcanoes on Mars - in response to

The CAGW fraternity are not into admitting very much about the ice extent currently in the Arctic, concentrating instead on a big batch of walrus

Thousands of dinosaur tracks, of different size and shape, have been found along the rocky shore of the Yukon River - see http://westerndigs.org/thousands-of-dinosaur-tracks-discovered-along-ala... These are

Last year there were three posts on 1258 - two in August and one in September. This came about after archaeologists, trying to interpret mass

At http://phys.org/print299757749.html ... a new hypothesis on the nature of black holes, asks - do they have hair? The paper was published in Physical Review

Wow. Velikovsky is described as a crackpot for suggesting Venus was a late addition to the solar system, accused of cosmic billiards, among other things,

Dynamical processes in nature take place over a large range of time scales. In addition, subatomic particles decay over a time scale of billionths of

This story was in 'Down to Earth' 84, August 2013, a geological magazine that organises a lot of field trips, in Europe and further afield,