In the TeHEP newsletter of 24th September 2021 [go to www.tallelhammam.com to sign up for the newletter] we learn from Stee Collins, the lead archaeologist on the project, that the article in Nature Scientific Reports [see yesterday News] on the Hammam airburst event, has not gone down too well in some quarters. The objection appears to revolve around the fact it is Biblical archaeology - and the discovery of the site of Sodom is definitely not welcome. Not wishing to name names but the biggest offender appears to be a very famous specialist in impact physics.

A post at Tall Bloke's talk shop - https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2021/09/20/earth-can-makes-its-own-auroras/ .. which is derived from https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/09/20/earth-can-makes-its-own-auroras/ ... earth can manufacture its own auroras, we are told, without any input from the solar wind. Admittedly, they are somewhat dim, like a pea soup without the ham, but an aurora of sorts none the less. They represent a bit of energy input into the upper atmosphere - at night.

At https://sciencenorway.no/geology-meteorites/when-a-several-hundred-metre... ... a crater at the bottom of the Barents Sea is 40 km in width. It is located between Svalbard and northern Norway and was churned out by a 1.6 km diameter meteor, it has been estimated. It took place around 142 million years ago on the geological column. A giant wave engulfed Norway and Greenland. The actual extent of the North Atlantic at this time is not mentioned but Greenland would have been a good deal closer than it is now.

At https://notrickszone.com/2021/09/09/scientists-increasingly-agree-the-la... ... scientists have been forced to accept that during the Late Glacial Maximum summers were several degrees warmer than in the modern world. These were endemic to Siberia and Alaska - north of the Arctic Circle. The old view that during the extent of the last Ice Age, or at least from 60,000 years ago onwards, to the beginning of the Holocene, a huge ice sheet covered the northern hemisphere from one end to the other, has been abandoned.