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At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-eruption-tonga-underwater-volcano-disrupt.html ... it's good that scientists have been able to study the effects of the Tonga underwater volcano, producing reams of fascinating information. We

To keep me on my toes Robert sent in five links. Here they are ... https://phys.org/news/2023-05-scientists-polar-cyclone-uranus.html ... https://phys.org/news/2023-05-juno-lightning-jupiter-pulses-ways.html .... and https://phys.org/news/2023-05-mystery-jupiter-stunning.html ... https://phys.org/news/2023-05-james-webb-massive-galaxies.html ... as

As we come to the end of May there is a surfeit of interesting, as well as the whacky, papers published in the academic press.

This is interesting  from a catastrophist point of view - at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/study-warm-ice-age-changed-climate-cycles/ ... this gets to the nitty gritty of a strange consensus idea, the

Another confusion created by uniformitarian dating of sediments laid down at extinction events - this time at the end of the Ordovician. We are told

Sharks are known to have been swimming in the oceans for at least 180 million years - on the geological column. At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-jaw-shark-species-evolution-driven.html ... The

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/radiation-belt-seen-beyond-solar-114246887.html ... a radiation belt, outside the solar system, has been spotted, high energy particles trapped by a magnetic field.

Robert sent in two links - https://www.iflscience.com/new-volcano-has-been-found-flinging-debris-from earths-insides-68952 ... and https://en.uit.no/news/article?p_document_id=811821 ... with the comment, is this evidence for Thomas Gold's deep earth gas theory,

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-years-outflow-mediterranean-atlantic-ocean.html ... we are told  that at the start of the Yonger Dryas episode, around 13,000 years ago, global temperatures plummeted. This appears to

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-evidence-ice-age-human-migrations.html ... mitochondrial DNA, via the female lineage, has shown that migrations from northern coastal China, reached the Americas - courtesy of the Chinese

Tall Bloke has an interesting post at https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/solar-flares-and-the-origin-of-life/ ... which derives from research at https://mdpi.com/2075-1729/13/5/1103 ... [April, 2023]. See also https://spaceweather.com/2023/05/13/solar-flares-and-the-origin-of-life/ ... which tells us

William also sent in another internet link - https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/scientists-discover-secret-symmetries-protect-211500136.html .... scientists discover 'symmetries' that protect the earth from chaos. Apparently, these have nothing to do

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/wind-solar-power-myth-finally-094338655.html ... the wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed, says the headline. Governments in the western world

William sent in the link to a catastrophist story at https://news.yahoo.com/astronomers-detect-largest-cosmic-explosion-103840130.html ... astronomers detect the largest cosmic 'explosion' ever seen. The caveat is that telescopes

Robert sent in the link to https://ukcolumn.org/video/david-rohl-challenging-the-established-view-of-ancient-history .... the video is an interview of David Rohl, author of several books and films on ancient history.

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-x-ray-telescope-dark-energy-uniformly.html ... Edwin Hubble, in the 1920s, discovered the universe is expanding. In 1998, observations of supernovae seemed to show the universe had begun

The story begins at https://www.netzerowatch.com/rapid-ocean-temperature-rise-puzzles-scientists/  ... rapid ocean temperature changes are on the way as the planet moves from a persistant La Nina position into

At https://phys.org/news/2023-04-fossilized-soot-charcoal-reconstruct-history.html ... an  intriguing new dating technique - in caves. It is being dubbed, 'smoke archaeology' but is in fact more complicated than that

In the UK, the month of May is the subject of a campaign by the charity, Plant Life. One of their cohorts actually sells wild

William sent in the link https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-despite-claims-old-215243519.html .. which is a rather unusual post as the authors appear to lack critical analasis skills. It starts off