[MadIvan]

My sister bought into the global warming nonsense until I brought up the actual geological record of the earth. The world goes through massive and subtle changes, as you rightly say - stasis in weather patterns has never happened. Never. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

Regards, Ivan

[SauronOfMordor]

There was a science fiction story ("Fallen Angels", by Niven & Pournelle), what posited that we were overdue for an Ice Age, and the only thing holding it off had been global warming. So when the enviro-weenies finally won ...

[Red Badger]

...global warming nonsense until I brought up the actual geological record...

Plus, the earth gains weight/mass every day with meteorites and the like, so our gravitational persona in the solar system changes, albeit slight. We move stuff all over the planet from its original place in the ground, so the wobble itself can be affected (I would imagine there is a huge shift in weight to where the US is). The sun's output varies in very small quantities and every now and then a comet come thru to stir up the mix, sometimes hitting the earth..........