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The intrepid Weather Eye in The Times has caught the 'volcanoes cause cold weather' bug - volcanoes causing bad weather here in the UK. A

The Dead Sea sediment core project is beginning to throw up some interesting data - see http://phys.org/print264850489.html ... or www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2012/researchers-study-dead... ... pollen analysis at different

We had the Big Bang - now we have the Big Wimper - see http://phys.org/print264654433.html

At http://phys.org/print264668408.html ... the archaeological record of Europe and Asia between 45,000 and 25,000 years ago shows a lot of changes - and movements. The

Another interesting forum going on atg Thunderbolts. Has plasma red shift been see in a laboratory? See what you think at www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6305 The argument is

It seems the Jet Stream was first discovered in the 1920s by a Japanese scientist. He sent weather balloons high into the atmosphere but found

Venice is built on a former lagoon. That means a lot of silt and mud which is why it is sinking. However, according to The

At http://phys.org/print264414605.html ... Dr Kareem Osman from Warwick University is looking at why solar wind is hotter than it should be - or why does

Looking around for some data as a note for some research I had a look through some old copies of Current Archaeology in my attic.

At https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/inqua/finalprogram/abstract_55300.html (or http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/great-famine-of-1315-vs-the-sun/) ... Herodotus recorded a frozen Bosphorus so it was not so unusual a happening. Since the modern era (AD) there have

At http://cosmictusk.com/kobres-on-16th-century-se-american-impacts/ ... Bob Kobres reports on some interesting events. For example, the town of Thunderbolt in Georgia was named from the translation of a

The journal Geology, August 2012, doi:10.1130/G33344.1 (see http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2012/07/31/G33344.1.abstract) ... over the last 5000 years, or since 3000BC, sea levels have been within 0.25m of its

Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Ruth Skaug, a space scientist, is hoping to find a link to weather on Earth, and the positioning

This is at http://phys.org/print264333845.html ... evidence of the end of Old Kingdom drought as recorded in the Ipuwer Papyrus (first intermediate period) has been found

At http://phys.org/print264350481.html ... we have a post on the shape of the Sun, and its roundness. . The Sun rotates every 28 days and therefore,

Excavations at Guvercinkaya in eastern Anatolia have uncovered the fossilised remians of animals such as lions and panthers, as well as two species of horses.

One paper comes out saying one thing and a few weeks later there is a paper demonstrating the opposite - and genetics has been a

It didn't take long for the consensus to shoot down in flames the idea that 4 per cent of Neanderthal genes have survived in modern

Dr Martin Hoerling of NOAA, not at all a sceptic organisation, has formulated an on the button response to recent doomsaying by James Hansen -

A marvellous forum debate going on at www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6369 ... lots of ideas floating around