In the News

The New York Times at www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/science/oldest-known-pottery-found-in-china.html ... comes several days after others have reported the same thing, and even then they got it wrong and

The big news is the 'near' discovery of the Higgs Bosun particle by scientists at CERN. More will come through the grape vine over the

At the New Chronology Yahoo group C14 dating at Tell el-Dab'a is being discussed this past week. A 2010 story was that it was consistently

At www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5735/tornadoes-magnetism-may-superheat-sun's... ... this is another paper in Nature this week, headed by a Norwegian scientist. It suggests the Sun's outer atmosphere may be heated

At www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/5725/the-long-hunt-australian-din... ... dinosaur remains have been found on every continent and it is known they dominated the planet around 140 million years ago, and

At http://blog.mysciencework.com/en/2012/06/19/new-evidence-for-climate-cha... .... is an overview of the YDB event hypothesis and its detractors - and the nature of the dispute between those who favour

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-187&cid=release_2012-187 ... astronomers using the Hubble Space Telscope have discovered an arc of light behind a very large cluster of galaxies 10 billion light

Jennifer Marohasy (see http://jennifermarohasy.com) reports on Rio and says the West and Western science was largely ignored at the United Nations talkfest in Rio -

At www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/5152/mammoths ... did you know there were mammoths in North Africa - and they evolved to live in warm tropical forests? The Columbian mammoth

The C14 anomaly at Nineveh is being discussed at the New Chronology forum - NewChronology [at] yahoo [dot] groups [dot] com ... and it seems

A press release from the National Science Foundation - remote Siberian lake has clues on climate change at the Poles. A preliminary analysis of a

Chemical analysis has shown that humans in the Sahara were milking cows some 7000 years ago - see www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/5708/early-saharan-africans-used-milk-7000-y... ... according to research done at

At http://judithcurry.com/2012/06/22/science-held-hostage-in-climate-debate/ is something for those sitting on the fence in the climate debate. Which side is scientific and which side is not so. An

At http://elpub.wdcb.ru/journals/rjes/v09/2007ES000250/2.shtml ...The Russian Journal of Earth Sciences (2007) had an article, 'Long term solar activity variations in the Pleistocene and their connection with abrupt

At http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/19/the-intriguing-problem-of-the-youn... ... there is an excellent posting by Don Easterbrook, a geologist from Western Washington University, on the Younger Dryas event, the periods preceding

At www.phenomenica.com/2012/06/mammoth-graveyard-uncovered-in-serbia/ is just the latest report on the discovery of mammoth remains from around the northern hemisphere - this time in Serbia. They are

Ocean acidification is another environmentalist manufactured scare story. There is extremely little likelihood the ocean could possibly become acidified - or ever has, and yet

At www.livescience.com/21029-cosmic-background-radiation-big-bang.html ... are echoes of the Big Bang misinterpreted? Gerrit Verschuur, author and radio astronomer, has proposed that some of the the fine structures

David Whitehouse has a pop at climate modelling at GWPF (where Benny Peiser and Nigel Lawson are the stars) - see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/17/the-very-model-of-a-modern-major-p... but the really

At www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6069 ... there is a post by an Electric Universe enthusiast who has experienced problems in converting others. He can't get his side of