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One day out from the publication of the full IPCC Fifth Report and the stitches are being undone on the blogosphere. The benders of facts

At http://phys.org/print299760553.html ... conclusive evidence of an ice cap in the Arctic Ocean has been foudn - on the continental shelf system of NE Siberia.

Comet ISON has gone green - see http://phys.org/print299762513.html A circular green coma has developed as the comet gets closer to Mars and and a dust

All is quiet on the blogosphere. People are busy reading and dissecting what the IPCC 5th Report actually says. We've had the political statement -

This story came out last week, or the week before, and entails the effects of solar wind on thunderstorms and lightning. Stephen Smith has taken

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