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At https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/inqua/finalprogram/abstract_55300.html (or http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/great-famine-of-1315-vs-the-sun/) ... Herodotus recorded a frozen Bosphorus so it was not so unusual a happening. Since the modern era (AD) there have

At http://cosmictusk.com/kobres-on-16th-century-se-american-impacts/ ... Bob Kobres reports on some interesting events. For example, the town of Thunderbolt in Georgia was named from the translation of a

The journal Geology, August 2012, doi:10.1130/G33344.1 (see http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2012/07/31/G33344.1.abstract) ... over the last 5000 years, or since 3000BC, sea levels have been within 0.25m of its

Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Ruth Skaug, a space scientist, is hoping to find a link to weather on Earth, and the positioning

This is at http://phys.org/print264333845.html ... evidence of the end of Old Kingdom drought as recorded in the Ipuwer Papyrus (first intermediate period) has been found

At http://phys.org/print264350481.html ... we have a post on the shape of the Sun, and its roundness. . The Sun rotates every 28 days and therefore,

Excavations at Guvercinkaya in eastern Anatolia have uncovered the fossilised remians of animals such as lions and panthers, as well as two species of horses.

One paper comes out saying one thing and a few weeks later there is a paper demonstrating the opposite - and genetics has been a

It didn't take long for the consensus to shoot down in flames the idea that 4 per cent of Neanderthal genes have survived in modern

Dr Martin Hoerling of NOAA, not at all a sceptic organisation, has formulated an on the button response to recent doomsaying by James Hansen -

A marvellous forum debate going on at www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6369 ... lots of ideas floating around

This is a story which will run - see www.phenomenica.com/2012/08/plate-tectonics-like-on-earth-also-exist-on-... ... a Chinese scientists, An Yin, analysing images from the THEMIS spacecraft and the HIRISE

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/15-million-years-of... ... in spite of the claim one wonders if it is really the right title. It begins on the assumption the consensus model

At http://phys.org/print263800587.html ... an underwater volcano 600 miles offshore of New Zealand has erupted and there is a huge cluster of white pumice floating on

Greenpeace founder, or one of them, Patrick Moore, was interviewed by the Washington Times recently - see www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/8/11/moore-realist.html ... and had some interesting things to

What wiped out the Neanderthals continues to fascinate anthropologists and others but unfortunately they do not wish to embrace the idea of catastrophism - in

This story is at various places and in various newspapers, such as The Guardian and at http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mass-grave-in-londo... ... but has an ultimate origin in an

At http://phys.org/print263543815.html ... where there is an image of a huge solar filament across the face of the Sun (early August) that is estimated to

Incredibly, it seems that 'castle scholars' or historians that study castles in England (Scotland and Wales are not implicated) have in the main  rejected the

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/mountains-seaway-tr... ... have a look at the two maps here and see what you think. Large parts of North America was underwater - as