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To: Red Badger

“As the Earth’s orbit slowly changed”

The earth’s orbit around the sun has not changed.


4 posted on 10/01/2018 9:24:05 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: MeganC

Actually, it has, several times

http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/14/earth-orbit-changes-were-key-to-antarctic-warming-that-ended-last-ice-age/


7 posted on 10/01/2018 9:28:58 AM PDT by ASOC (Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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To: MeganC

I think what the writer meant was Precession of teh Poles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession


8 posted on 10/01/2018 9:30:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: MeganC; All
“As the Earth’s orbit slowly changed” The earth’s orbit around the sun has not changed.

The Earth's orbit may not have changed, but the Earth's orbit around the sun does change in a periodic way, over thousands of years.

11 posted on 10/01/2018 9:34:21 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: MeganC

Look up Milankovitch cycles.


12 posted on 10/01/2018 9:34:25 AM PDT by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: MeganC

Yes it does, it Milankovitch cycles are well understood.


38 posted on 10/01/2018 11:02:11 AM PDT by fatez (Ya, well, you know, that's just your opinion man...)
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To: MeganC
The earth’s orbit around the sun has not changed.

Changed is the wrong word. It varies slightly over time.

41 posted on 10/01/2018 12:09:44 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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