In the News

At http://notrickszone.com/2013/07/25/joe-bastardis-saturday-summary-on-jul... ... with a headline like that you wouldn't think the alarmists were associating July temperatures in central Europe and eastern N America with

An interesting story at http://phys.org/print293895074.html ... which is open to some conjecture - I think (bnut may be not). A paper in Nature tells us

Harvard scientists are now involved in the Younger Dryas Boundary Event controversy. A PNAS paper has reopened the case in a dramatic fashion and George

In the May/June issue of British Archaeology another Neolithic complex is explored - this one in Powys, in the Marches, the border land between Wales

We had a post in the winter from the blog of archaeologist Mike Pitts which showed the ditch around Silbury Hill filled with water following

At http://phys.org/print293793112.html ... there is some nice information on Titan, a moon of Saturn, and puzzles associated with it liquid constituents. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-231&cid=release_2013-231 ... we

One of the more recent scare stories circulated by environmentalists as an anti-fracking tactic, is the idea of humans causing earthquakes - a theme of

This is not climate related, as such, but a geological conumdrum - see www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351788/description/News_in_Brief_Mil... ... this happened in the Pliocene, which in geochronology directly precedes

The New Chronology Yahoo site has some emails circulating on Tell el Hammam,  a massive ancient city in the famous plain near the Dead Sea.

Looking at a well made stone axe one can appreciate the work and time involved in its construction - even a well made flint projectile

Andrew Neil's interview of Energy and Climate Secretary, Ed Davey, on July 14th, provoked a predictable backlash by outraged CAGW elements - accusing him of

This is a bit of a slapstick posting by Tim Cullen at http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/etch-a-sketch-ice-sheets/ ... but sometimes funny haha can be close to the knuckle. He

The BBC tonight have been telling us that thunderstorms are on the way and the jet stream is about to revert. At Piers Corbyn's web

At http://phys.org/print293169366.html ... Europe's first farmers, some 8000 years ago, used manure on their fields. It has always been assumed manure was not used until

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-226&cid=release_2013=226 ... there is a report on two papers concerning the atmosphere of Mars as collated by NASAs Curiosity Rover - taking samples and

At www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/one-europes-oldest-decorative-wood... ... informs us that archaeologists have recovered a decorative wood carving dating to 6000 years ago - on a hilside in the Valleys

At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/the-inflating-earth-sea-level/ ... Tim Cullen takes a look at sea levels in the context of the Inflating Earth hypothesis. What he says is interesting to

At http://heritageofjapan.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/stone-age-and-ancient-tu... ... which confirms people in northern Japan were in active contact with Korea, especially 20,000 years ago when the two lands were far

This is Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Luning, 'Die Kalte Sonne' (the cold Sun). It has now been published in English under the title 'The Neglected

At www.livescience.com/37977-underwater-cypress-forest-discovered.html ...the discovery of a primeval underwater forest off Alabama, buried under ocean sediments that were disturbed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, raises some