Posted on 06/28/2016 5:00:32 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage
CO2 is only a bit-player in the drama of world climate, while the main characters are ice, dust and albedo....Ice age cycles have something to do with precession: the slow wobble of the axis of the Earth. The ancient Egyptians and Greeks knew of precession and called it the Great Year, because it gives warm and cool seasons over its approximate 23,000-year cycle. But there is a problem with invoking the Great Year as the regulator of ice ages, because we should really get an interglacial warming every 23,000 years or so. And we don’t – they only happen every fourth or fifth Great Year....A new peer-reviewed theory by an independent researcher may have unlocked this perennial conundrum of paleoclimatology.
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Because of your replies in “Farming Invented Twice In Middle East, Genomes Study Reveals”, thought you might like to see this one.
Great discussion thanks! Plant life distress at CO2 levels is a fascinating hypothesis. Could you add me to your ping lists?
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