In the News

For those interested the discovery of cold plasma in the upper atmosphere has sparked a debate on the internet - see for example http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/01/28/warm-plasma-cold-plasma-purr-pur... and

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120125113147.htm there is a report on research off the coast of Spain near Gibraltar and in the Gulf of Cadiz where sediment cores were

At www.physorg.com/print246867025.html ... a paper in Science (Jan 27th, 2012) claims the Moon once had a molten, convecting core of liquid metal that generated a

At www.physorg.com/print246626517.html we learn that new research by the University of Reading and the Met Office admit that solar output is in decline - and

'Low energy ions: a previously hidden solar system particle population' is the title of a paper in Geophysical Research Letters - see www.physorg.com/print246632486.html. Cold plasma

NASAs Dawn spacecraft has produced a close up study of the asteroid, Vesta - see www.physorg.com/print246526715.html. Vesta has a diameter of around 330 miles but

SIS member William Thompson suggested I look at this story - a huge pool of Arctic fresh water could cool Europe (see also www.physorg.com/print246526036.html). The

At www.alphagalileo.org/PrintView.aspx?ItemId=116263&CultureCode=en (and also at the Daily Mail, online, but the comments are so bad, stay away) ... anthropologists at the University of Kent have

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120123152528.htm ... various studies and attempts to trace the origin of the domestic dog by DNA have been aired over recent years, tending to

The Oxford clay geological layer forms a bed that runs from Weymouth to East Anglia - usually well below the surface. It was found to

Sir Henry James in an article in a journal called The Athenaeum, in 1860, explained Ice Ages by the migration of the axis of rotation.

At www.physorg.com/print246274195.html there is a report on research in Japan and a paper in Physical Review Letters on problems associated with rotation of the Earth,

At http://aegyptologie.unibas.ch/forschung/projekte/university-of-basel-kin... news of the discovery of an 18th dynasty tomb not far from KV40. The entrance was blocked up but at a later stage

We might all be interested in what the Electric Universe theory people might say about this but the post, and a video, can be found

At www.physorg.com/print245921695.html details of a modelling experiment has been written up in the December issue of Human Ecology - with some interesting results. Modelling is

Another gem at http://chiefio.wordpress.com January 19th 2012, 'Stratopause Emissions' following close on the heels of his investigation of water vapour in the atmosphere. In this

This is meant to be tongue in cheek as it seems those dratted windmills don't like it too windy. Generally, they are switched off when

Contrary to some reports in the media the situation regards the bluestones is not cut and dried as far as human transportation is concerned. This

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120110114434.htm there is a piece on deep sea vents in the Caribbean - with a difference (published in Nature Communications, January 10th). The vents,

A post at http://chiefio.wordpress.com January 15th 'Outgoing vs Land vs Water Vapour' makes you wonder if it is all a hall of mirrors and the