In the News

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-162 ... a fresh meteor crater has been studied by NASA and some conclusions have been reached. It first appeared in March 2012 and

Gary forwarded this link at http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/05/the-mysterious-skeleton-lake-of-th... ... which concerns a glacial lake in Uttarakhand State in northern India, high in the Himalayas. It is situated

No. I'm not talking about climate change or global weirding - or even the elusive global warming. At http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/carbon-14-cookbook/ ... Tim Cullen is digging holes

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/discovering-artists... ... dating back between 7000 and 6000 years ago, during the Mid Holocene Warm Period, even earlier than the Pre-dynastic era, is a

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-incredible-daoh... ... we have evidence the Arctic was subtropical in the Jurassic and western Europe also had a pleasant enough and warm climate -

This is the catastrophe Velikovsky chose to identify as a Persian invasion of Egypt many hundreds of years later. Gaston Maspero, in the 1860s, came

A web site that might fire up some people - go to www.illustris-project.org

The sceptic IPCC Wikia web site is getting better by the day - go to http://ipcc.wikia.com/wiki/IPCC_Wiki

Michael Mann came to prominence in the climate science world with his notorious hockey stick graph that did away with the medieval warm period and

Tim Cullen continues with part two of his critique of C14 dating - go to http://malagabay.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/carbon-14-libbys-ring/ ... which is something of an eye opener in

This topic is back in the news - go to www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140512155025.htm .... but it doesn't really tell us anything that wasn't known before. Drugs and

This has been going on for some time but exactly why the shrinkage should become of concern to mainstream media at this point is possibly

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-05/ps-dad_1051214.php ... this short piece discloses how a skeleton found in a cave, now 130 feet below sea level, was dated to the Late

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130612173326.htm ... the teeth of kangaroos (caron isotope ratios) and other marsupials of SE Queensland who the area, now arid, was formerly much wetter

Gary Gilligan has been looking at sand once again - adding a bit of arithmetic. The Nubian Sandstone geology underlies a great part of NE

At http://phys.org/print319261859.html ... we have news of another supercomputer simulation - one which shows two neutron stars colliding, merging, and forming a black hole. A

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/link-found-between-solar-winds... ... provides a direct link between the Sun and weather on the Earth. Bassically, some scientists have found that when the speed and

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/big-bang-gravitational-waves-c... ... bigins, 'an orchestrated media blitz to push claims that spectacular evidence of cosmic inflation had been detected could be turning sour only

At http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/respect-lies-and-power-politics/ ... EM Smith tries to untangle the different ways of thinking about CAGW - and how those differences might arise. Its a nice,

Axel Heiberg Island is just to the left of Ellesmere Island and has a similar geological record of forests buried beneath layers of sediment -