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A professor of mathematics and physics, one Christopher Essex, has criticised some aspects of the last IPCC Report [ on the Canadian blog of Donna

Sent in by William. At https://www.yahoo.com/news/official-hottest-rock-ever-recorded-215246284.html ... a Canadian Space Agency funded project in Newfoundland and Labrador has been looking at the Mistastin Crater. This

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/scientists-found-evidence-earthquake-big-202400221.html ... a research paper in Science Advances says a newly discovered megaquake in Chile, around 3800 years ago, was

Marinus van der Sluijs, who has written some interesting articles for SIS journals, is in the science news this week. In collaboration with Hisashi Hayakawa

The comet seems to have a semi-major axis of around 16,000 AU, and a perihelion distance of around 10.9 AU. That is, beyond Saturn. A

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/16/seafloor-spreading-has-been-slowing-down/ ... which pertains to a research paper published by the American Geophysical Union. Sluggish rates of seafloor spreading 'could' mean a drop in

At https://notrickszone.com/2022/04/18/new-study-90-papers-were-published-on-the-hiatus-from-2009-2019-now-they-say-it-never-happened/ ... in late 2012, the IPCC had a problem. They've always got a problem but in this case, they were confronted by uncooperative

William sent in the link to https://www.yahoo.com/news/turns-megacomet-more-80-miles-192641117.html ... the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet, or C/2014UN271, was discovered by astronomers at the University of Pennsylvania, Gary Bernstein and

Two posts on climate change on the same day. Normally it is two posts in a month. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/13/epicentre-of-mass-coral-bleaching-still-so-beautiful-part-1/ ... the redoubtable Jennifer Marohasy over

At https://phys.org/news/2022-04-ice-caps-ocean-current.html ... some findings seem to upset the applecart, diluting the climate catastrophe scenario. In the piece climate scientists regard the Atlantic Meridional Overturning

William sent in another link on the asteroid strike. See https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/scientists-may-found-pieces-asteroid-233154265.html ... which is derived from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/science/asteroid-killed-dinosaurs-fossil-site.html ... scientists at the fossil site in North

Ancient sediments are usually dated via a uniformitarian lens but when the known history of a sediment bed is investigated it can lead to some

Sent in by William. Look at the image. The Interior Seaway is perfectly aligned with Chicxulub. At https://www.news.yahoo.com/tanis-first-dinosaur-fossils-linked-210028696.html ... the leg of a dinosaur, complete

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/mercury-has-magnetic-storms-similar-to-earth/ ... two research papers involving Chinese scientists, one in Nature Communications and the other in Science China Technological Sciences, have confirmed the planet

In Current World Archaeology 112, 'Climate Change and Ancient Civilisation' we are told that the Liangzhu culture of eastern China, at its peak between 3300

At https://phys.org/news/2022-03-source-super-fast-electron.html ... it seems Electric Universe ideas are catching on. Rather, they are being verified by research. UCLA scientists say they have discovered a

A paper on the seismic effects of the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor explosion in the atmosphere has been published in Seismological Research Letters volume 84 number

At https://heritagedaily.com/2022/03/archaeologists-identify-sacred-pool-aligned-with-the-stars/143075 ...  a sacred pool aligned to the stars - in the Phoenician city of Motya, located off the coast of Sicily. An excavated

At https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-early-israelite-curse-inscription-found-on-mt-ebal-1.10696926 ... inscribed on a tablet of Aegean lead, mined it would seem during the Mycenaean period. The curse is in proto-Canaanite script and

At https://phys.org/news/2022-03-dating-boulders-ice-free-corridor-beringia.html ... researchers have found evidence there was an ice free corridor between Beringia and the Great Plains, so it is said. The results