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Summer Solstice 2011
Let’s all pause for a moment (and my apologies for the late posting!) The precise time of the summer solstice today is 17.16 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UTC). Our sun, giver of life In terms of local...
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Next ice age?
Uh, thought the great issue was global warming! So just a day after the 2011 Summer Solstice, the sun is again a topic on this Blog. Last Saturday’s issue of The Economist had amongst it’s leaders, a...
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Sceptical voices, part two
More musings about determining the truth. Those who read yesterday’s part one will undoubtedly have seen the added comment from long-time friend of Learning from Dogs, Patrice Ayme. Yesterday, I...
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Just a small, white dot!
Does rather serve to remind us of our place in the scheme of things. This stunning image was taken by the Cassini-Huygens probe. Many of the images taken by NASA are available for download from the...
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AGW certainty, Part Two
Continuing the examination of two views on AGW. Readers will recall that this post opened yesterday. That Part One closed with Martin writing this: Martin Lack Much of what Oakwood writes is an attack...
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Summer solstice
As old as time itself! The point at which the sun reaches its farthest point north of the equator is the Summer Solstice, well it is for the Northern Hemisphere. This occurs annually on June 20 or June...
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Summer solstice 2020.
As old as time itself! The point at which the sun reaches its farthest point north of the equator is the Summer Solstice, well it is for the Northern Hemisphere. This occurs annually on June 20 or June...
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The Winter solstice
Today, we celebrate the shortest daylight! (In the Northern Hemisphere). From WikiPedia: The winter solstice, also called the hiemal solstice, hibernal solstice, and brumal solstice, occurs when...
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