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Cosmic rays set climate change on Earth, expert says -
Scientist challenges greenhouse-gas theory
Edmonton Journal via canada.com ^
| March 16, 2006
| Tom Spears
Posted on 03/20/2006 11:45:53 AM PST by Daralundy
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Well this is interesting. I don't know if there is anything in it, but it is worth considering.
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posted on
03/20/2006 11:45:56 AM PST
by
Daralundy
To: Daralundy
I just love when scientists fight.
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posted on
03/20/2006 11:50:42 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: Daralundy
OK, we make this really really big umbrella and shhot it up in to space....
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posted on
03/20/2006 11:52:08 AM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Jack Bauer: "By the time I'm finished with you you're going to wish you felt this good again".)
To: isthisnickcool
Any one told ex vice President gore? He will have to re write his book..
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posted on
03/20/2006 11:56:58 AM PST
by
JoanneSD
To: Daralundy
I prefer to think that it's caused by precession of the poles and wobble of the earth on it's axis...........
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posted on
03/20/2006 11:57:11 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: mlc9852
Its like a slap fight between 10 year olds on the playground.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:02:20 PM PST
by
Holicheese
(Hey whitey, wheres your hat?)
To: Holicheese
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:05:36 PM PST
by
mlc9852
To: Daralundy
If Wafah Sultan had been a scientist...
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:07:49 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(The best stuff happens just before the thread snaps.)
To: Daralundy
Guess we'll have to build a giant bubble around the Earth so We can control the temperature and protect ourselves from galactic forces.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:07:58 PM PST
by
wolfcreek
To: Red Badger; Daralundy
I prefer to think that it's caused by precession of the poles and wobble of the earth on it's axis...........
Hmm that that has a 27,000 yr period, unfortunately it does not fit the data.
Now the 100kyr wobble in earths orbital plain with respect to the solar system mean plane is a different matter:
http://newton.ex.ac.uk/aip/physnews.252.html#1
INTERPLANETARY DUST PARTICLES (IDPs) are deposited on the Earth at the rate of about 10,000 tons per year. Does this have any effect on climate? Scientists at Caltech have found that ancient samples of helium-3 (coming mostly from IDPs) in oceanic sediments exhibit a 100,000-year periodicity. The researchers assert that their data, taken along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, support a recently enunciated idea that Earth's orbital inclination varies with a 100-kyr period; this notion in turn had been broached as an explanation for a similar periodicity in the succession of ice ages. (K.A. Farley and D.B. Patterson, Nature, 7 December 1995.)
Farley & Patterson 1998, http://www.elsevier.com/gej-ng/10/20/36/33/37/32/abstract.html
Farley http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~farley/
Farley http://www.elsevier.nl/gej-ng/10/18/23/54/21/49/abstract.html
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr96/dec96/noaa96-78.html
ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE DURING LAST GLACIAL PERIOD COULD BE TIED TO DUST-INDUCED REGIONAL WARMING
Preliminary new evidence suggests that periodic increases in atmospheric dust concentrations during the glacial periods of the last 100,000 years may have resulted in significant regional warming, and that this warming may have triggered the abrupt climatic changes observed in paleoclimate records, according to a scientist at the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Current scientific thinking is that the dust concentrations contributed to global cooling.
Spectrum of 100-kyr glacial cycle: Orbital inclination, not eccentricity Richard A. Muller* and Gordon J. MacDonald Origin of the 100 kyr Glacial Cycle by Richard A. Muller
Figure 2. Spectral fingerprints in the vicinity of the 100 kyr peak: (a) for data from Site 607; (b) for data of the SPECMAP stack; (c) for a model with linear response to eccentricity, calculated from the results of Quinn et al. (ref 6); (d) for the nonlinear ice-sheet model of Imbrie and Imbrie (ref 22); and (e) for a model with linear response to the inclination of the Earth's orbit (measured with respect to the invariable plane). All calculations are for the period 0-600 ka. The 100 kyr peak in the data in (a) and (b) do not fit the fingerprints from the theories (c) and (d), but are a good match to the prediction from inclination in (e). return to beginning
![](http://home.earthlink.net/~a_geezer/Climate/fig2.gif)
Far more important to our present analysis, however, is the fact that the predicted 100 kyr "eccentricity line" is actually split into 95 and 125 kyr components, in serious conflict with the single narrow line seen in the climate data. The splitting of this peak into a doublet is well known theoretically (see, e.g., ref 5), but in comparisons with data the two peaks in the eccentricity were merged into a single broad peak by the poor resolution of the Blackman-Tukey algorithm (as was done, for example, in ref 8). The single narrow peak in the climate data was likewise broadened, and it appeared to match the broad eccentricity feature. *** Figure 3. Variations of the inclination vector of the Earth's orbit. The inclination i is the angle between this vector and the vector of the reference frame; Omega is the azimuthal angle = the angle of the ascending node (in astronomical jargon).. In (A), (B), and (C) the measurements are made with respect to the zodiacal (or ecliptic) frame, i.e. the frame of the current orbit of the Earth. In (D), (E), and (F) the motion has been trasformed to the invariable frame, i.e. the frame of the total angular momentum of the solar system. Note that the primary period of oscillation in the zodiacal frame (A) is 70 kyr, but in the invariable plane (D) it is 100 kyr.
![](http://home.earthlink.net/~a_geezer/Climate/fig3.gif)
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:09:59 PM PST
by
ancient_geezer
(Don't reform it, Replace it.)
To: Daralundy
To: Daralundy
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:23:50 PM PST
by
chaosagent
(Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
To: Daralundy
Yet, for years he held back on his climate doubts. "I was scared," he says Scared - of what ? Ridicule from other, politically indoctrinated scientists ?
That's why we can't trust what scientists tell us - there is far too much agenda in science research.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:28:02 PM PST
by
cinives
(On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
To: DaveLoneRanger
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:29:00 PM PST
by
FOG724
(http://nationalgrange.org/legislation/phpBB2/index.php)
To: Daralundy
Great, this means we can go back to r-12 for air conditioning.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:31:07 PM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Daralundy
Geez- all those squiggly lines make my eyes glaze over.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:38:53 PM PST
by
ArtyFO
(I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire.)
To: Daralundy
Stars, not greenhouse gases, are heating up the Earth.
So says prominent University of Ottawa science professor Jan Veizer.
What the heck is going on up there?
First y'all elect a Conservative guvmint.
Then I read about increased interest in joining the Canadian military
forces, even with the losses in Afghanistan.
And there's even public admissions about the problems (not just the promises)
of socialized medicine.
Now, even your university professors are talking sense.
OK, I'm joking a good bit. And hoping I can someday get away to visit
relatives in Sherwood Park/Edmondton and Jasper/Banff.
But something seems to be in the water recently.
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posted on
03/20/2006 12:46:27 PM PST
by
VOA
To: Daralundy; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Great Dane; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; ...
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posted on
03/20/2006 1:00:41 PM PST
by
fanfan
( "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" - Ayn Rand)
To: Daralundy
......it certainly sounds more plausible than cow farts and automobile emissions.
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posted on
03/20/2006 1:01:47 PM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: KevinDavis; blam
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posted on
03/20/2006 1:02:38 PM PST
by
fanfan
( "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" - Ayn Rand)
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