In the News

The forthcoming IPCC AR5 report, it is being suggested, will not look at the Sun as the main driver of the climate, and has omitted

At www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/02/2012/aztec-carvings-tell-stor... ... the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan in Mexico has carvings depicting Aztec myths including the birth of the god of war Huitzilopochtli. There

In the 'Sunday Times Book of the Countryside' (1983) there is a very nice diagram of the SW peninsular (Cornwall and Devon). It seems that

This post is informative ... see www.esd.ornl.gov/projects/qen/transit.html 'Sudden Climate transitions during the Quaternary' ... and is about a whole series of rapid climate transitions over

Over at http://cosmictusk.com/alaska-big-wave-at-12900/ there is the claim of a huge tsunami wave at the YD boundary - or thereabouts, with some nice Native American artwork

There has been some speculation on sailing ships traversing the Arctic Ocean in the late 18th/early 19th centuries - see http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/the-arctic-voyages-of-william-... which is a stir

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120215143001.htm .. anthropologists have said the cradle of language could, or it that 'should', be traced back to Africa. A recent paper that received

At www.physorg.com/print248597825.html ... we learn that a paper in Nature claims the extraordinarily high energy emissions at the heart of the Crab Nebula come not

At www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-english-hampshire-17046338/ ... there is a video of the stone age boatyard found on the bottom of the Solent - since flooded by rising sea

It seems too recent but it was only in 1976 that JA Eddy had an article published in Science 192 (no 4245) that established the

At www.physorg.com/print248347427.html ... tells us that a NASA JPL research team in league with French scientists have written a paper for the Geophysical Review Letters

At www.newgeology.us/presentation36.html there is an article by a scientists who has worked at the US Geological Survey for over 40 years and is the author

At www.physorg.com/print248086305.html ... clams have been found at hydro-thermal vents in the deep ocean - in the Mariana Trench. This is located in the western

At  http://en.wikipedi.org/w/index.php?title=Solar_cycle&oIdid=476364656 the Wikipedia entry on the solar cycle is interesting - it looks at the history of the subject and notes that as long

One suspects that many things have been factored into the uniformitarian scientific model not because they are inherently more likely than alternative ideas that are

An unusual story can be found at www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEM0TLSXXXG_index_0.html (hat tipped towards member Gary Gilligan) from the European Space Agency web site, 10th February 2012. ESAs

A new paper has suggested the Siberian Traps caused a long drawn out mass extinction at the Permian/Triassic boundary - described as a 'mass dying

This story is at www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120208133039.htm and apparently the giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy may be devouring asteroids and comets, or anything

There is surprisingly a lot a sites out there that picked up on Richard Mackey's article in 2007. For instance, at http://climatechange.thinkaboutit.eu/think4/post/climate_change_caused_b... ... it seems

In the grander picture the galaxy rotates at a roughly constant velocity and relative to this the Sun and its planetary system move around the