In the News

At http://phys.org/print279440535.html ... volcanoes may be a key to the Ice Ages, is being suggested in a new paper in the journal Geosphere. Actually, they

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/2012-da14-a-week-17200-miles/ .... EM Smith is having a look at asteroid 2012DA14 which is due to whizz past the Earth on 15th February - inside

At www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0042213 ... cylindrical objects of fired clay found in various parts of the Near East over the years, and going back to the early

This is an interesting scenario and is used by Pierre Gosselin at http://notrickszone.com/2013/02/07/monsoons-in-china-fluctuate-in-sync-w... ... as a discovery disputing co2 influenced warming - yet it is

At http://m.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10212660.Remarkable_new_finds_below_York-M... ... is a story that the Guardian briefly toyed with so we may assume a press release and an announcement regarding the discovery

At www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/When-Did-Humans-Come-to-the-Americ... ... after the discovery of a carved mastadon tusk and stone flakes in a sinkhole of the Aucilla River in northern Florida, some

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/nasa-balloon-mission-detects-5... ... the balloon mission over the Antarctic has discovered large numbers of cosmic rays according to a press release - some 50 million

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