In the News

At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-203&cid=release_2011-203 we learn that Cassini has taken images and sounds of electrical storms on Saturn - and one of them has been raging since

This time, a paper in Nature July 7th (see www.physorg.com/print229175772.html ) that claims not just push and pull at plate boundaries are responsible for tectonic

Musings from the Chiefio, July 4th 2011 (http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/why-does-the-sea-floor-move-in-s... ... EM Smith looks at consensus theory on sea floor spreading, mainly in the Pacific as he

It seems we have two climate scientists with the monicker of Michael Mann (but with different middle names). This emerged with the publication of a

As Willie Soon and Sally Baliunas have again come in for some high octane criticism from the doomsaying community as alarmist quarters scratch around waving

At http://cosmictusk.com/a-personal-essay-from-vance-holliday-on-the-clovis... is another nail in the coffin of the comet impace theory at the beginning of the Younger Dryas. It looks more and more

Spiegel Online 7th January 2011 (see www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,771569,00.html ) reports on a Bronze Age burial mound at Leubingine where tree rings on wooden planks or beams

At www.physorg.com/print228659903.html we are told that zombie stars are the key to measuring dark energy. At www.physorg.com/print228643916.html we are informed there is a cosmic Axis

The July Maryland conference is being updated daily at the Thunderbolts web site - speakers and subjects are evolving and more information is forthcoming at

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/cygnus-x-1-a-black-hole-harvard-sm... is one of those posts where you wonder if the use of proof is a bit stretched, but never mind, apparently some people

At www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/nyu-fsh062811.php there is a report from PLoS One (online journal) on Homo erectus in Indonesia, widely regarded as a human ancestor as they resemble

At http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/06/did-australian-aborigines-... there is a report on a paper in Geophysical Research Letters that claims Aborigines burnt old vegetation from the landscape in the hot

A nice piece of humour in the form of a letter written to a prominent AGW journalist, here just named Fiona (a spoof or otherwise)

Proxy data known as the Tiljander series, named after the original researcher on lake varves in a Scandinavian body of water, pops up in the

At www.physorg.com/print228124344.html .... ideas to combat the rise in levels of co2 in the atmosphere and in the oceans are beginning to feature some Dr

Yes, a trillion bolts of lightning are being emitted from what is said to be an enormous black hole in a distant galaxy (see www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/universes-highest-electric-current...

At www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/-mercurys-messenger-reveals-surpri... (see earlier post a few days ago). This blog post is derived from information from the Carnegie Institute and it expands a little

An interesting post at http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/megaplumes-and-volcanic-gasses/ is a bit of typical sleuthing by EM Smith, wondering just how much co2 might be produced by under the

Bones found in Wasden cave, a few miles west of Idaho Falls (in the State of Idaho) (see www.idahopress.com/news/state/scientist-fights-for-research-at-e-idaho-c...). Archaeologists, or palaeontologists, have never explored

t www.physorg.com/print227957170.html ... a parcel of marine scientists, or rather, a collection of environmentalists, is warning us the world's oceans are at risk of entering