GGG Ping.
More speculation... one heck of a job if you can get it. Make up stuff and get paid.
Bush's fault
Are they talking about Ice Ages or the cycles of glaciation within an Ice Age? IIRC we are now in an Ice Age but the glaciers have retreated for moment.
This is all junk science hogwash.
Anybody with half a brain knows that it's Bush's fault.
Ever hear of Kyoto?
That's quite a statement, and what happens in the intermediary time when the seasons are shifting?
Maybe if we could get Michael Moore to move to South America, it would straighten the earth back up again?
"What we have here is a great laboratory for seeing how climate changes naturally," he said. "But this is a 100,000-year cycle, whereas global warming is happening a thousand times faster.”
These guys just don't seem to realize that they are destroying their credibility on serious, important science.
I thought is was caused by Uncle Teddy.
Lie the wobbling of a drunken singer.
Seems this fact of earth's geological history is an inconvenient reality for the Kyoto mad lefties.
Are they serial?
These guys are reporting these facts like they are some kind of major breakthrough revelation.
This has been scientific fact for decades now but for some reason the climatologists know nothing about it.
"The last major glacial thaw was 10,000 years ago, which means that the Earth is scheduled to head into another ice age. Whether human influences could reverse this, Huybers was hesitant to speculate. Other researchers have found evidence that the process of climate warming can set up conditions that create a global chill."
Try telling Algore that.
Yes, but was the earth always on a tilt?
Women and minorities hardest hit...
Think about a scenario where there was no tilt at all of the earth's axis.
There would be no seasons anywhere on the planet (a slight change in our summer since the earth is slightly farther from the sun.)
But at the poles, it would just be constant sunset all the time, 24 hours a day every day. With the thicker atmosphere that the little amount of sunlight has to go through, it would be 40, 50 degrees below zero all the time, 24 hours a day, day in day out.
There would be no melting of any snow that falls at the poles. Massive glacial sheets would build up, flow south (and north) and the top third and bottom third of the planet would be just one big glacial sheet.
Just the tilt moving from 24 degrees to 22.5 degrees can leave an effect which could be similar (when combined with other cycles.)
Just having a continent over the poles like Antarctic and Greenland/Baffin Island can cause glaciers to build up. 600 million years ago, most of the continents were locked up together over the south pole and nearly the entire planet froze over (even the oceans.)
Like I said, none of this has ever been taught to any climatologist.
>>>In the past million years, the Earth experienced a major ice age about every 100,000 years.<<<
Reminds me of a time when a frantic lady called into a talk show and asked the guest, Carl Sagan, "When did you say the sun would expand and engulf the earth?"
"In about 10 billion years," Sagan replied.
"Thank God," said the caller. "I thought you said 10 million!"
Or it could be be some intelligent design so that life could be supported on the planet . . . .