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Report: A returned chunk of Stonehenge solves long-standing monument mystery

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From a Live Science report:

More than 60 years ago, a worker at Stonehenge kept a drilled-out cylinder from one of the monument's massive upright stones during a restoration project, and last year, on the eve of his 90th birthday, returned the stone. A new analysis of it has now helped solve the mystery of where the giant stones were quarried.

Stonehenge as it appears today

Chemical analysis has shown that the drilled-out stone — along with almost all of Stonehenge's most massive stones — came from West Woods in Wiltshire, just 15 miles (25 kilometers) from the Neolithic monument, said University of Brighton geoscientist David Nash, who led the study.

While many of the smaller "bluestones" that surround Stonehenge were cut in the Preseli Hills in the west of Wales, more than 140 miles (230 km) away, little was known before about the large sandstone boulders at Stonehenge, which are known as "sarsens."

Full report here.

Report: New PragerU video “Bacteria to Beethoven" shows 2 scientific reasons to doubt evolution

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Climate flashback: In 1978 Mr. Spock warned us another Ice Age would be here by now.

Below is a a one minute Ice Age Scare video narrated by Leonard Nimoy in 1979 when ‘global cooling’ fit the liberal scientific narrative.

Nimoy, who was Star Trek’s Mr. Spock, was hired by climate alamists to do the video 69 years ago.

They have long since stopped trying to scare us with global cooling. Now it’s non-stop global warming.

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Report: 500 Scientists write to U.N.: ‘There is NO climate emergency’

More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a “European Climate Declaration” to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.

The scientists underscored the importance of not rushing into enormously expensive climate action before fully ascertaining the facts.

It has not been that long since the ‘coming ice age’ scare that was politically rather then scientifically driven and was proven to be blatantly false.

Of course we need to protect the planet but must we panic when politicians and pseudo scientists fly around in carbon belching jets telling us to stop using plastic straws and cut down on toilet paper or the world will end in 12 years?

How long before left-wing politicians demand that Detroit build cars that run on carrot juice?

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A child shall lead them...

Rare full moon will light up Friday the 13th for the first time in years

This week, the spooky date gets a spooky night sky to go with it.

Friday the 13th will be extra spooky this week. The date associated with bad luck, haunted houses and that 1980s summer-camp slasher film series will get a full moon for the first time in years.

According to the Farmers' Almanac, those living in the Pacific, Central and Mountain time zones will get to gaze on the full moon before midnight on Friday, Sept. 13, but those living in the Eastern time zone will have to fudge a little. Their full moon will happen just after midnight, at 12:33 a.m., pushing it to the much-less-spooky date of Saturday, Sept. 14.

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Unexplained 'gel like' substance found on dark side of the Moon

From a report at the link below:

Yutu-2, the autonomous rover launched from China's Chang’e-4, has sent back photographs of a bizarre ‘gel like’ substance on the surface of the Moon during its exploration of the rarely-photographed far side.

The discovery was made on July 28, but details are only now beginning to emerge from the Beijing Aerospace Control Center.

The Chang'e-4 team was preparing to power down the robot rover as part of a regular ‘nap’ to protect its electronics from the harsh radiation and high temperatures while the Sun was directly overhead.

As they did so, one of the supervising scientists spotted a small crater that seemed to have a strangely shiny appearance.

So far, mission scientists haven't been able to determine what the substance is. All the information that has so far been released says that it is "gel-like" and has an "unusual colour".

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No U.S. warming since 2005 - sorry Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

From a report at the link below:

One of the problems in assessing global climate is that the surface temperature record is terrible. There are very few weather stations world-wide, and fewer all the time. Seventy per cent of the world is ocean, and therefore hard or impossible to measure accurately. Most temperatures that go into calculations of a global average are not even measured: they are interpolated, assumed temperatures based on records at other stations.

The graphic above shows an icy downtown Chicago created to frighten 'non-believers’

The graphics below are driving the global warming advocates nuts whether they are serious about warming or just hoaxters.

Unless you are determined to follow Al Gore off a cliff come hell or hot water (pun intended), read the full report found at the link at the end of this report.

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Why Everything They Say About The Amazon, Including That It's The 'Lungs Of The World,' Is Wrong!

They are breathlessly stoking the fires (pardon the pun) of the Brazil rain forest panic.

From a report at the link below:

The increase in fires burning in Brazil set off a storm of international outrage last week. Celebrities, environmentalists, and political leaders blame Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, for destroying the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, which they say is the “lungs of the world.”

Singers and actors including Madonna and Jaden Smith shared photos on social media that were seen by tens of millions of people. “The lungs of the Earth are in flames,” said actor Leonardo DiCaprio. “The Amazon Rainforest produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen,” tweeted soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. “The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire,” tweeted French President Emanuel Macron.

And yet the photos weren’t actually of the fires and many weren’t even of the Amazon. The photo Ronaldo shared was taken in southern Brazil, far from the Amazon, in 2013. The photo that DiCaprio and Macron shared is over 20 years old. The photo Madonna and Smith shared is over 30. Some celebrities shared photos from Montana, India, and Sweden.

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To their credit, CNN and New York Times debunked the photos and other misinformation about the fires. “Deforestation is neither new nor limited to one nation,” explained CNN. “These fires were not caused by climate change,” noted The Times. however both publications

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However, both publications repeated the claim that the Amazon is the “lungs” of the world.

“The Amazon remains a net source of oxygen today,” said CNN. “The Amazon is often referred to as Earth’s ‘lungs,’ because its vast forests release oxygen and store carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas that is a major cause of global warming,” claimed The New York Times.

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One of the world’s leading Amazon forest experts, Dan Nepstad, had this to say about the “lungs” claim.

“It’s bullshit,” he said. “There’s no science behind that. The Amazon produces a lot of oxygen but it uses the same amount of oxygen through respiration so it’s a wash.”

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A New York Times reporter interrogates an astronaut