In the News

At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-el-nino-early-big-sloppy.html ... as the media gots overheated at the prospect of an upcoming El Nino event we might like to ponder on why it

At https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2023/06/06/how-big-was-carringtons-sunspot/ ... the story starts off by having a joke at the expense of the so called fact cherckers. Ask Chat GPT how big

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-x-ray-emissions-black-hole-jets.html ... added this in order to keep abreadst of rapidly incoming new research on black holes. Black hole jets emit X-rays, we are

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-experimental-microbes-powered-electricity.html ... we've heard about this sort of thing at Electric Universe talks, and videos, all very cutting edge and speculative. Now we seem

Seems like another well established consensus theory might not be up to scratch. Mountain building. At https://phys.org/news/2023-06-uncover-rethink-mountains-built.html ... but just how do mountains form? This

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-webb-telescope-towering-plume-saturn.html ... astronomers using the James Webb telescope have spotted a towering plume of water vapour estimated to be 6000 miles in length. It

Tony Haynes, a former chairman of SIS, was keen on fusion technology and the prospect of cheap power. At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-small-fusion-temperatures-hotter-sun.html ... we are told that

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-antarctic-dry-valleys-havent.html ... the high elevation McMurdo dry valleys of interior Antarctica - this time, the bigger part of Antarctica, the actual coninental chunk and

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/rocks-beneath-antarctic-ice-sheet-reveal-surprising-past-i-e-natural-variation/ ... natural cycles are well documented in earth history. One only needs to think of the Roman warm period or the Mid Holocene

An interesting story at https://phys.org/news/2023-05-overfishing-linked-rapid-evolution-codfish.html ... cod fishing in the North Atlantic has been going on for centuries, with people fishing on the Newfoundland Banks

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-spinosaur-britain-multiple-species-roamed.html ... analysis of spinosaur teeth at Southampton University are evidence of several distinct species of the creature. All the fossils were collected from

William sent in the interesting link to https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/tunguska-event-biggest-asteroid-impact-150047293.html ... in a way it is a peculiar story as the absence of an impact crater would

A nomadic empire that arose on the Mongolian steppes - 1500 years prior to Genghis Khan's Mongol empire. The Xoingnu traded with the Roman empire

At https://phys.org/news/2023-05-meteoritic-volcanic-particles-life-reactions.html ... precursors of the molecules needed for the origin of life may have been generated by chemical reactions presented by iron rich particles

At https://spaceweather.com [May 29th 2023] ... J Cobain of Northern Ireland saw some interesting transient phenomena around the Sun - and quickly started clicking away

The climate change people generally ignore the actuality of catastrophic events in the past, eager to interpret all data from a climate angle. The idea

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