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The CAGW fraternity are not into admitting very much about the ice extent currently in the Arctic, concentrating instead on a big batch of walrus

Thousands of dinosaur tracks, of different size and shape, have been found along the rocky shore of the Yukon River - see http://westerndigs.org/thousands-of-dinosaur-tracks-discovered-along-ala... These are

Last year there were three posts on 1258 - two in August and one in September. This came about after archaeologists, trying to interpret mass

At http://phys.org/print299757749.html ... a new hypothesis on the nature of black holes, asks - do they have hair? The paper was published in Physical Review

Wow. Velikovsky is described as a crackpot for suggesting Venus was a late addition to the solar system, accused of cosmic billiards, among other things,

Dynamical processes in nature take place over a large range of time scales. In addition, subatomic particles decay over a time scale of billionths of

This story was in 'Down to Earth' 84, August 2013, a geological magazine that organises a lot of field trips, in Europe and further afield,

One day out from the publication of the full IPCC Fifth Report and the stitches are being undone on the blogosphere. The benders of facts

At http://phys.org/print299760553.html ... conclusive evidence of an ice cap in the Arctic Ocean has been foudn - on the continental shelf system of NE Siberia.

Comet ISON has gone green - see http://phys.org/print299762513.html A circular green coma has developed as the comet gets closer to Mars and and a dust

All is quiet on the blogosphere. People are busy reading and dissecting what the IPCC 5th Report actually says. We've had the political statement -

This story came out last week, or the week before, and entails the effects of solar wind on thunderstorms and lightning. Stephen Smith has taken

If anybody is interested in reading the sceptic response to the IPCC report they can't go far wrong by going to www.judithcurry.com/2013/09/28/ipcc-diagnosis-permanent-paradigm-paralysis/ ... as it

At http://notrickszone.com/2013/09/26/bastardis-jungs-initial-winter-specul... ... which illustrates how bad news spreads rapidly. In this instance, a forecast of another cold winter. However, out there in mobile phone

While the politicos have been obsessed with CAGW and combing roof tops of the well to do with solar panels, quietly, and in the background,

At http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/ancient-egyptian-f... ... a few arrowheads and a single spearpoint. Other artifacts were also found but the interesting thing is that this might have been

Well, we know from UK geology that the climate during the Jurassic, in central England, was akin to the modern climate of Florida and the

This is one of those questions we might not really think about, and accept the usual IPCC meme that co2 accumulates in the atmosphere and

We've had Bayesian statistics applied to C14 methodology - providing an average date to get a more reliable fix on a situation for the archaeological

The 'Bad Astronomer' Phil Plait, critical of Velikovsky and the people that take him either seriously or with a grain of salt, seems to have