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BBC News April 19th was full of it - our Iron Age ancestors were really bloodthirsty brutes and a finger was pointed at the discovery

At www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/04/rising-above-acropolis-constellat... some computer retrocalculation software of the sky at night has shown that the constellation Draco, the dragon, would have been above the acropolis

NASA is saying solar cycle 24 is finally on (see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/15/watched-solar-cmes-never-boil/ ). In 2008 sun spots disappeared and flares subsided and there was lots of

Some people say that C02 does not cause warming - recent rising temperatures are due to natural factors such as solar cycles. Others think there

This sounds like the sort of thing advocated by Steve Mitchell in the pages of SIS but the story is at www.physorg.com/print221727791.html and derives from

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110411083533.htm - a computer simulation has come up with an image based on variations in electrical conductivity in underground rock formations beneath Yellowstone. It

One man writing down what he thinks might have happened at the end of the Pleistocene - Dennis Cox, April 2011, at http://cometstorm.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/a-different-kind-of-climate-c... ... It

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/10/solar-terrestrial-lunisolar-compon... by Paul Vaughn, M.Sc. It is about a French paper on solar cycles and the rate of change of the length of day,

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/archaeologists-u... - this is a subject that reads like something right out of Ages in Chaos, and various SIS articles on similarities between Late

At http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/an-introduction-to-enso-amo-a... (there is a broken link here so if there is a problem go to site and look at archive on LH menu). This

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/09/the-pre-climategate-issue-that-is-... is Anthony Watts take on a piece of McIntyre sleuthing that can be view in full at http://climateaudit.org/2011/04/09/yamal-and-hide-the-decline/ which is the full disclosure

Piers Corbyn has attributed current earthquake activity to lunar and solar factors - and presumably the much smaller influences on earth by the planets. In

At www.bbc.co.uk/science-environment-12989605 - a large gap in prehistory, it seems, may indicate Britain underwent an economic slowdown between 800 and 500BC, where experts struggle to

At www.physorg.com/print221457830.html we have an interesting interpretation of an astronomical event - two neutron stars merge and within mill-seconds, it is said, form a black

Two new pages have been uploaded by Gary at www.gks.uk.com/Horus-Behdety-Winged-Disk/ and www.gks.uk.com/Re-Horakhty_Horus/ and as always he has some lovely images of genuine Egyptian statuary which

Piers Corbyn, on April 5th, said that during the period April 6-9th there was a threat of a major earthquake - and this duly happened,

At www.physorg.com/print221392528.html there is a report from Spaceweather.com that said two small asteroids came close to earth on April 6th - half the distance of

The ozone hole above the Arctic has got the doomsayers red around the ears. It is the subject of reports at www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/72206/title/Record_Arctic_ozone_mini... and www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405102202.htm 'Record

At www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/72214/title/Arctic_Ocean_hosts_wierd... which is caused by rivers emptying from Siberia into the Arctic Ocean in combination with the sea ice that accumulates there during the

At www.physorg.com/print221195120.html ... it seems oil geologists are looking seriously at Greenland for untapped reserves of the black sticky substance. As can be expected the