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Can moon cycles predict droughts, wet weather?
Quad-City Times, Davenport, IA ^
| Sunday, July 16, 2006
| Associated Press
Posted on 07/16/2006 10:14:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Louis Thompson says he's learned to keep quiet when Iowa's crops begin to wither. For decades, the retired soil scientist had been forming his moon theory to explain widespread drought every couple decades, but he says critics prefer to use other explanations... The statistics, after all, are eerily accurate. Thompson has studied weather and crop records for almost 50 years and his research at Iowa State University pointed him to an 18.6-year cycle of drought and rainy weather that coincides with the moon's path around the Earth. When the moon's orbit is at its northernmost track above the equator -- as it is now -- the Corn Belt is due for a drought, Thompson says... S. Elwynn Taylor, an Iowa State University Extension climatologist, says... [t]ree ring records going back 800 years in parts of the United States show the cycle has been amazingly consistent.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: artbell; callingartbell; catastrophism; climate; climatechange; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; weather
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Anyone here ever use the Old Farmer's Almanac? :')
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posted on
07/16/2006 10:14:43 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: Domestic Church; Ernest_at_the_Beach; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
Thanks Domestic Church for the link in FReepmail.
This is of interest because of the possible impact back into ancient and prehistoric times. Ernest, you might find this pingworthy.
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posted on
07/16/2006 10:16:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I bet Bush and Rove pushed the moon into a higher orbit to change the weather...
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posted on
07/16/2006 10:16:52 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: coconutt2000
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posted on
07/16/2006 10:18:56 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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ah, why not?
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posted on
07/16/2006 10:19:32 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
The name "Lewis Thompson" must be a pseudonym for Algore, he of the moon barking set.
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posted on
07/16/2006 11:33:05 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: SunkenCiv; All
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posted on
07/17/2006 12:09:24 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent)
To: SunkenCiv
LOL!
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posted on
07/17/2006 12:10:37 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent)
To: SunkenCiv
Reminds me of the Old Testament, seven years of fat, seven years of lean.
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posted on
07/17/2006 3:04:10 AM PDT
by
CobaltBlue
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
To: Salamander
Thanks. "Metonic cycle":
Google
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posted on
07/17/2006 3:58:09 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: CobaltBlue
:')
A seven-year regulation of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation 3,700 years ago
D.Qu, M. K. Gagan,
W.S.Hantoro, B.W. Suwargadi
The oxygen isotopic composition of coral aragonite offers a robust proxy of ENSO variability because it is sensitive to both the oceanic and atmospheric components of ENSO. Corals from the island of Sumba, Indonesia, are well situated to record the sea-surface cooling and droughts brought about by El Niño events... We have extended this approach to produce a high-resolution, 57-year-long coral d18O record of past ENSO variability from a fossil coral that grew within the fringing reef of Sumba 3,700 years ago... Our results suggest that El Niño events were less frequent and more regular 3,700 years ago, relative to the unpredictable 3-8 year periodicity for modern El Niño events. The seven-year regulation of El Niño is fascinating because it suggests that, under certain background climate states, El Niño events may be predicted years in advance.
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posted on
07/17/2006 4:01:58 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Rembrandt
The name "Lewis Thompson" must be a pseudonym for Algore, he of the moon barking set.
Not remotely -- Gore's part of the new Lysenkoism; Louis Thompson ascribes climate to natural rather than artificial causes.
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posted on
07/17/2006 4:03:01 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Salamander
Mock
yeah
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yeah
bird
yeah
yeah
yeah
Mock-ing-bird...
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posted on
07/17/2006 4:04:20 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Rembrandt
Don't be silly. Assuming that because the word "moon" appears only shows a lack of understanding. You don't have to be a new age fluff-bunny of an astrologer to work with lunar cycles. Great astronomers have done so for hundreds of years.
That said, there are also important sun-spot cycles that might play into drought cycles as well--I do know that some scientists (not moonbats, mind you) are concluding that the sun spot cycles are involved in the cycles of planet warming and cooling (sorry, Al, it doesn't seem to be about driving cars after all).
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posted on
07/17/2006 6:17:34 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: Salamander
It's not "impending doom." It's a cycle. That means that there are years of drought, and years of good rain, and this fellow might have a useable way to predict which is which. It helps in planning crops, water useage, and other activities. The nice thing about cycles is, just wait awhile, and it changes. It's not "doom."
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posted on
07/17/2006 6:20:13 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: Rembrandt
Some words disappeared from my post--it should have read:
"Assuming that because the word "moon" appears somewhere it means it's about airy-fairy stuff only shows a lack of understanding."
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posted on
07/17/2006 6:23:03 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: CobaltBlue
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posted on
07/17/2006 7:04:05 AM PDT
by
wyattearp
(Study! Study! Study! Or BONK, BONK, on the head!)
To: SunkenCiv
Moon cycles I saw the title and thought this was another nude biker thread.
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posted on
07/17/2006 7:06:38 AM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
To: MizSterious
*sigh*
That is a FR "running joke" graphic.
Perhaps if you'd read it in context of the post to which it was a *reply*, you'd have seen that.
If nothing else, my advice to Google 'metonic cycle' should've been a tipoff to the sarcasm, therein.
This guy is simply 'discovering' what's been known by "primitives" for a very long time.
Ancient cultures have been using the metonic cycle to "predict" agricultural trends for millennia.
For instance, part of the arrangement of Stonehenge keeps track of the metonic cycle.
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posted on
07/17/2006 8:43:25 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent)
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