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Last time we talked about the evident hijacking of the PalArch Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. No-one seemed to know what had happened or how. I managed to track down Andre J. Veldmeijer, who was involved with the PalArch journals a while back. [...]
This is one fundamental thing that the weather people get wrong. They ignore ocean currents. There is extreme turbulence at the meeting of two major currents, and nobody measures it. The warm water [...]
Just went out. It was a nice morning, and now I needed a heavy jacket, with cold rain and drizzle. Sort of like the UK all
The cold is getting boring. I said a long time ago that the fun would be in how they are convincing us that everything is getting warmer, when it is getting colder. PredictionsThey have to find another excuse [...]
This is so neat. I have never seen this in our so-called summer. It is formed when cold air goes over warm water, and forms precipitation. Only by chance, this is rain, this time. We see this all the [...]
The 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society was an event I eagerly anticipated, and it didn’t disappoint. Hosted at the Palace of the Academies in Brussels, Belgium, the conference spanned from July 28th to August 2nd, offering a week … [...]
The world is full of wonderful animals, both extant and extinct, and they all have names. As a result, it’s fairly common for newly named animals to be given names already in use — as for example with the giant Miocene sperm whale [...]
The new ELI (published a few weeks ago) was 'Magnetic Manchester; measuring changes in magnetic declination to investigate the Earth’s core'.The Earth’s changing magnetic declination, recorded at the world’s airports, canbe used as evidence [...]
This is funny. The Pacific plumes are going north and hitting Northern Canada first and then coming down to Toronto to freeze us. What is going on? Is it climate change, or another semantics change in the [...]
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