In the News

I suppose I should comment on the Richard III DNA results that were hyped by press release and treated with emotive glee by the BBC,

Over at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/02/06/well-worth-a-read-self-damning-wor... ... we have the wise words of CAGW adherents; mainly Malthusians, politicians and environmentalists - and the good chappie Sir John Houghton

A paper a few weeks ago has rattled the troughers as George the Man and fellow sharp cronies have funded a sharp rebuke - not

Magnetic loop structures on the Sun seen in action by NASAs Solar Dynamic Observatory. How to unlock the mystery of why the outer edge of

George Howard has responded to the Mark Boslough press release - see posting a couple of days ago (Feb 2nd), and more or less enscapulates

C Warren Hunt, of http://eearthk.com fame, has a book that you can buy at www.polarpublishing.com, 'The Environment of Violence: readings of cataclysms cast in stone'

Alfred Wegener, looking around for some process in order to move the continents, thought drift was perhaps due to tidal forces from the Moon -

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/makarieva-et-al-finally-get-th... and http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/makarieva-et-al-make-the-headl... which is being presented on sceptic sites as another blow to CAGW science - and see also www.thegwpf.org/research-blows-climate-science-wide-open/ and http://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/douglas-sheil.jpg Where

At http://phys.org/print278935705.html ... an experiment is described that involves firing a rocket into the sky above Alaska in order to study auroral wind - a

Two posts on a German blog today are interesting. In the first we have a Swedish climate scientist say that global warming has been so

Over at archaeologist Mike Pitts blog are some impressive pictures of Silbury Hill taken recently after excessive rain and overloaded water tables - go to

At http://eearthk.com/Articles03.html ... Charles Warren Hunt takes a swipe at the Plate Tectonics consensus theory. He describes it as a hypothesis based on not well

At http://phys.org/print278861188.html ... apparently, ozone levels influence the southern hemisphere jet stream - but not the northern hemisphere jet stream. This rather strange finding is

Coming hot on the heels of the news that Lucy lived in the trees is another spike in the hide of the consensus hymn sheet.

In Parker-Pearson's recent book on Stonehenge he described how snails were able to give a clue about the Neolithic environment on Salisbury Plain - open

At www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ice-Age-iLion-Mani-is-worlds-earliest-f... ... straying back on to yesterday's Ice Age art theme we learn here that a piece of mammoth ivory carved into the shape

Scientists from Royal Holloway College (part of London University) in association with Sandia National Laboratory in the US, and 13 other universities in N America

This is an intersting exhibition running between February 7th and the 26th May 2013 - see www.britishmuseum.org ... If you wondered where Henry Moore might

Fresh from his stint at last year's Electic Universe conference Robert Schoch has a fascinating article in the current issue of Current World Archaeology 57

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2013/01/the-moon-was-once-powered-by-a-dyn... ... it seems scientists have found evidence that rocks on the moon were magnetised millions of years ago. This discovery has led to