In the News

At https://phys.org/print458809784.html ... looks like at least one country, Japan, is prepared to seriously consider a connection between the solar wind/ earth's magnetic field connection

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/14/ipcc-achieves-net-zero-credibility/ ... is a guest essay by Barry Brill. We are told that between 2032 and 2050 there will be species extinctions, weather extremes,

At http://spaceweather.com, October 14th 2018, we learn that a burst of meteors seen over Europe was just the edge of a much bigger stream of

Apparently, there is a cosmological lithium problem - see https://phys.org/print458379012.html .... and it is one of the unresolved issues of the Big Bang theory. Nuclear

At https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/ipcc-sr15-report-lacks-cost-b... ... the 2018 IPCC Report lacks cost analysis according to Bjorn Lomborg. He says the costs involved are not worth it - a

Not much to say about this one as it will be ignored by the great and the good, our masters. At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/07/bombshell-audit-of-global-warming... ... John McLean,

At https://gizmodo.com/new-experiment-reveals-secret-behind-200-000-year-ol... ... experiment reveals the secret behind Neanderthal glue. Most human societies used glue in one form or another to fix bone and stone

At https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/10/05/the-problem-with-puffins/ ... we have an article on the decline of the puffins. In a nutshell we have a fine example of how alarmism works.

At https://phys.org/print457947412.html ... results from Cassini's final mission phase show protons of extreme energies between the planet and its rings. A series of 6 article

At https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7252 ... the Voyager 2 spacecraft probe has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system - which suggests it

In this story humans are not the environmental bad guys it would seem. The preaching bit takes a back seat as they are exonerated of

At https://phys.org/print457686574.html ... a new very distant object found in the hunt for Planet X, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Full details are available

At https://phys.org/print457252479.html ... did building blocks for life arrive on earth from space (from comets and meteorites, it is suggested). This article is published in

Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish chemist (they didn't have climate scientists in his day) and he investigated the effect of doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide and

The recent McKitrick and Christy paper on measuring warming in the atmosphere via weather balloon data (over 60 years) in comparison to the results from

At www.spaceweather.com (september 22nd 2018) we learn that the Sun has just crossed the equator and is heading south and changing seasons. This event seems

At https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/caos-cts091718.php ... we have an interesting headline - Chinese led team (from the Chinese Academy of Sciences) shows mass extinction happened in a geological

Evidence of people living in western Australia 50,000 years ago has been discovered in the remote Carnavon Ranges. They lived in the region during a

At https://andymaypetrophysicist.com/2018/09/19/how-constant-is-the-solar-c... ... the IPCC lowered their estimate of the impact of solar variability on the Earth's climate from the already low value of 0.12

At https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uop-sr091418.php ... propelling spaceships without fuel. Mike McCulloch of Plymouth University first came up with the idea of quantised inertia (QI) in 2007. This