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An electric plume - under Yellowstone
12 April 2011 > PhysicsAt www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110411083533.htm - a computer simulation has come up with an image based on variations in electrical conductivity in underground rock formations beneath Yellowstone. It
Comet Storm
11 April 2011 > CatastrophismOne man writing down what he thinks might have happened at the end of the Pleistocene - Dennis Cox, April 2011, at http://cometstorm.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/a-different-kind-of-climate-c... ... It
Luni-solar influences and the length of the day
11 April 2011 > AstronomyAt http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/10/solar-terrestrial-lunisolar-compon... by Paul Vaughn, M.Sc. It is about a French paper on solar cycles and the rate of change of the length of day,
Minoans in Canaan
11 April 2011 > Ancient historyAt http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/archaeologists-u... - this is a subject that reads like something right out of Ages in Chaos, and various SIS articles on similarities between Late
Ocean Circulation Systems
11 April 2011 > PhysicsAt http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/an-introduction-to-enso-amo-a... (there is a broken link here so if there is a problem go to site and look at archive on LH menu). This
A Climate Change Most Foul
10 April 2011 > Climate changeAt http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/09/the-pre-climategate-issue-that-is-... is Anthony Watts take on a piece of McIntyre sleuthing that can be view in full at http://climateaudit.org/2011/04/09/yamal-and-hide-the-decline/ which is the full disclosure
Earthquakes ... are they increasing?
9 April 2011 > PhysicsPiers Corbyn has attributed current earthquake activity to lunar and solar factors - and presumably the much smaller influences on earth by the planets. In
A Bronze Age dark age in Britain?
9 April 2011 > ArchaeologyAt www.bbc.co.uk/science-environment-12989605 - a large gap in prehistory, it seems, may indicate Britain underwent an economic slowdown between 800 and 500BC, where experts struggle to
Black Holes ... gamma ray bursts and things
9 April 2011 > PhysicsAt www.physorg.com/print221457830.html we have an interesting interpretation of an astronomical event - two neutron stars merge and within mill-seconds, it is said, form a black
Gary's updates
7 April 2011 > MythologyTwo new pages have been uploaded by Gary at www.gks.uk.com/Horus-Behdety-Winged-Disk/ and www.gks.uk.com/Re-Horakhty_Horus/ and as always he has some lovely images of genuine Egyptian statuary which
Charlatans
7 April 2011 > Climate changePiers Corbyn, on April 5th, said that during the period April 6-9th there was a threat of a major earthquake - and this duly happened,
Another close shave
7 April 2011 > AstronomyAt www.physorg.com/print221392528.html there is a report from Spaceweather.com that said two small asteroids came close to earth on April 6th - half the distance of
Ozone Hole
6 April 2011 > Climate changeThe ozone hole above the Arctic has got the doomsayers red around the ears. It is the subject of reports at www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/72206/title/Record_Arctic_ozone_mini... and www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110405102202.htm 'Record
Arctic Ocean Ponding
6 April 2011 > Climate changeAt www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/72214/title/Arctic_Ocean_hosts_wierd... which is caused by rivers emptying from Siberia into the Arctic Ocean in combination with the sea ice that accumulates there during the
Inuit Oil Barons to be ... cold weather in the 18th century
6 April 2011 > Climate changeAt www.physorg.com/print221195120.html ... it seems oil geologists are looking seriously at Greenland for untapped reserves of the black sticky substance. As can be expected the
Comet Wild2
6 April 2011 > AstronomyNASA and JPL Caltech say they have found the presence of liquid water in Comet Wild2 - but comets are supposed to be so cold
Climate papers ... early April
5 April 2011 > Climate changeAt http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/04/claim-nuclear-tests-stopped-global... - one of the bugbears to global warming theory is the fact the earth cooled from the 1940s to the late 1970s -
Chesil Beach
5 April 2011 > GeologyAt www.jurassiccoast.com/380/the-coast-uncovered-30/geo-highlights-226/ches... ... the Jurassic Coast was featured in BBC TVs Countrywise April 5th 2011 - and Chesil Beach was pictured and discussed. I had
Krypton ... and what it may mean
5 April 2011 > PhysicsAt http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=earth-atmosphere-format... December 2009 ... Krypton trapped in earth's mantle may not have been captured from the Sun - as models predict. It seems to
Giant Rabbits
2 April 2011 > BiologyAt www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/72081/title/Supersized_superbunny/ ... this is another example of Mediterranean islands becoming home to dwarfism and gigantism. See earlier posts on this subject - such as