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The BEST debate is still in its infancy. Steve McIntyre has now joined in - see http://climateaudit.org/2011/10/22/first-thoughts-on-best/ where he begins in a positive tone by

David Morrison, a NASA senior scientist, is well known as a sceptic of fringe science. In particular, he is disparaging of Velikovsky. As a result

Lots of noise is being generated in the media, desperate to keep the gravy train in place, following a press release concerning the BEST research

Donna Laframboise, a prominent Canadian sceptic and investigative journalist, scourge of the various IPCC reports, has set the wags alight on the blogosphere with her

Two Mexican astronomers have uploaded a paper onto the prepress server arXiv concerning objects passing in front of the Sun in 1883, surrounded by a

At www.physorg.com/print238220272.html a PNAS paper has shown that electricity lies at the root of blue flashes, a kind of bioluminescence, visible at night in various

At www.sciencedaily.com/release/2011/10/111017111610.htm ... we learn that cutting tools, long blades prised from worked flints, were being used as early as 400,000 years ago as a

At www.physorg.com/print238063656.html ... it seems that in recent years cosmologists have discovered the universe is flat - or purportedly so. This is in spite of

At http://research.aerology.com/natural-processes/solar-system-dynamics/ ... the effects on climate are expanded to include the solar system and the universe which are linked in what is called a

At www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/the-seaweed-trail-peop... there is a quite good overview of the currently acceptable alternative migration route into the Americas, the so called seaweed trail. A continuous

A beautiful piece with the title, 'Why Einstein was wrong about being wrong' is at www.physorg.com/print237818552.html and begins with the Theory of Relativity, a mathematical

The Thunderbolts World Conference on the Electric Universe: 2012 - you can now keep up to date at a web page devoted to what is

Two very interesting stories, one is geological and the other, physics. At www.physorg.com/print237552924.html - it seems that rocks and boulders rubbing against each other can

NASA has released further information about its DAWN mission to the asteroid Vesta - see www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-319&cid=release_2011-319 Vesta's surface has striking diversity in its composition, the

It seems cosmic alignments are still in vogue in Germany. They have not been stifled in the same manner as in the UK - or

It seems some scientists are worried the general public are not up to understanding what science is all about - and fearful of the way

Tony Hood is the author of a book, 'Kalopin's Legacy, 1811: A comet and a Quake' which is an interesting theory connecting the devastating 1811

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/10/ecoalert-nasa-see-fewer-big-astero... which is the same story post last week - with a twist. Elsewhere, at www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/10/06/comet-elenin-the-debate-that-never-h... brings us back to Comet Elenin - out

Two papers on clouds - make what you will. See http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/09/spencer-finds-the-big-picture-on-c... and on the same web site, a new post by Willis Eschenbach - http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/08/estimating-cloud-feedback-from-obs...

Leroy is a bit late to the plate. He is currently pushing the Ravindra Godbole web site www.themeaningofvedas.com, something that SIS did some months ago