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This story is at http://spaceweather.com (30th April 2019) which could also have the title - how to look for sprites ... ... a large hole

A couple of links sent in by Jovan - go to www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190429111826.htm ... and www.newscientist.com/article/2200961-titan-has-a-belt-of-ice-6300-kilome... ... Titan is coming up with all kinds of surprises

AGW has thrown up some crazy ideas and scaremongering but this one takes the biscuit, you might say. Are the lizards shedding their clothing. At

It seems that not only has Velikovsky recently come under fire in SIS journals, particularly by one author who has a copy of Bob Forrest

Jovan sent in this link - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-a-meteor-from-another-sta... ... did a meteor from another star strike the Earth's atmosphere back in 2014? Stars and planets routinely

We learnt last week that Titan's lakes are full of methane rather than water. We also have lots of methane on Earth. Landfill sites, for

William Thompson's 'Cosmic Catastrophism affecting the Earth - Bibliography and Handbook' is now available to access at https://www.third-millennium.co.uk/features ... this is the web site of

Bakc in 2003 Nature journal published a short piece in volume 423 (5th June) 'Ice Age steppe vegetation in Alaska and Yukon' ... . The

At https://cataclysmiccontinentalshift.blogspot.com/2018/05/mammoths-in-tun... ... this appears to be a site that does not much favour the mainstream view on mammoths in the tundra. It begins thus,

At https://sites.ualberta.ca/~areyes/BertoPage/Publications_files/GSAToday_... ... (or alternatively, https://www.academia.edu/2907699/The_Klondike_goldfields_and_Pleistocene... ... published in GSA Today, 19:8 August 2009. This is a remarkable piece of research which opens up all

The location of the tree line is largely controlled by summer temperatures and growing season length. However, conifer trees have 'not yet recolonised many areas

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411101735.htm ... driving a wedge into historic gaps in climate science. In this instance, Hokkaidu University in Japan has found the Beaufort Sea, on

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190411101824.htm ... ancient Texas was a Serengeti savannah with animals such as elephant, rhinoceros and alligators etc. During the 1930s unemployed Texans were recruited

William has sent in a link to Thunderbolts - on the black hole image. Thunderbolts reply and claim the ring of lighyt with a dark

Paul Reich has only just had his paperback version of up to the minute genetics published and he is already out of date it would

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7369 (April 2019) ... new observations indicate auroras on Jupiter are heating the planet's atmosphere - and that it is a rapid response to

Not sure if this is worth posting as it amounts to some angst. I don't for one moment think most people take diagrams of fracking

At https://astronomynow.com/2019/04/10/virtual-telescope-captures-first-dir... ... we are told that after years of observation and data analysis an international team of astronomers have capture images of a massive

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/ru-bmt032019.php ... bacteria may travel thousands of miles through the air, globally. Press release from Rutgers University on a study published in the Philosophical

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news/php ... a few days ago (see also www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190328170639.htm ... and https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/cassini ...). NASAs Cassini mission has found Saturn's rings coat tiny moons -