In the News

At ftp://ftp2.space.dtu.dk/pub/Svensmark/MNRAS_Svensmark2012.pdf 'Evidence of nearby supernovae affecting life on earth' can be found at various sites including Benny Peiser's CCNet, via www.thegwpf.org and at www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/219-news-2012/2117-did-exploding-stars-hel...

At http://phys.org/print254405062.html ... when did the desertification as a result of the uplift of the Tibetan plateau happen. Geologists are divided. One view is that

At http://phys.org/print254421869.html ... a new study, by the US Geological Survey, claims it has found evidence that elevated levels or iridium, magnetic spherules and titanomagnetic

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-111&cid=releases_2012-111 images from the Cassini spacecraft show strange half mile wide objects pushing through Saturn's F ring with glittering trails following them (composed of

At http://phys.org/print254201605.html ... a paper in Physical Review Letters asks the question, can light bend into an arc? The answer it appears is in Maxwell's

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus ... in order to make a little more sense of yesterday's post on what is due to come about in June, Wikipedia describes

At www.livescience.com/19747-stonehenge-ales-stenar-astronomical-calendar.html ... Scandinavians dragged 59 boulders to a cliff top overlooking the Baltic Sea and arranged the megaliths in the outline of a 220

At http://enthusiasmscepticismscience.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/madrid-1995-... .. Peter Warlow's bogeyman features heavily in this post on where might the focus have shifted from proper science to political hype -

At http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/tim-cullen-the-secret-astronom... ... is a post by Tim Cullen, The Secret Astronomers Other Ball, April 20th. On the 5th and 6th of June this year

At www.space.com/15255-comet-massacre-fomalhaut-star.html  is a bit of speculation after the observation of a young star, Fomalhaut, with at least one planet in orbit around it, that

At www.physorg.com/print253968343.html it is a serious blow to dark matter theories. At www.world-science.net/120417_darkmatter.html the question is - where is the dark matter? not here, befuddled

Part of the answer may lie in a post at http://judithcurry.com/2012/04/19/the-righteous-mind/ and the focus is a couple of reviews of a book, Jonathan Hailt, The

At http://notrickszone.com/2012/04/18/more-reconstructions-show-climate-is-... is taken from Germany's Die Kalt Sonne website which has suddenly become widely read by the general public following the success of the

In Pleistocene Coalition News 4:2 April, 2012, George Howard has a piece on the Carolina Bays and the YDB event. The Bays consist of tens

At www.pleistocenecoalition.com, a piece from the latest Pleistocene Coalition News by Richard Dullum on a 'Forbidden Archaeology' item, the 900 page book that is a

At http://www-personal.umich.edu/~feliks/graphics-of-bilzingsleben/ is an interesting story that seems to be further evidence of science dogma in action, in which a consensus theory is applied to

At http://cosmictusk.com/elevated-iridium-at-younger-dryas-in-england/ is from a paper delivered at the iNQUA congress at Bern in June 2011 and concerns a geological layer from Bodmin Moor in

Piers Corbyn at www.weatheraction.com is a commercial business but doesn't really give much away about his methodology. Richard Holle appears to follow a similar method

This post can be found at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/12/trigger-for-little-ice-age-a-half-... is taken from the blog of Roger Pielke Sr and refers to a paper in the Geophysical Review

Tall Bloke's Talkshop 'Some Toughts about the solar system barycentre' is a subject periodically aired on this web site and has attracted some interested commenters