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Global warming could change Earth's tilt
New Scientist ^ | August 20, 2009 | Rachel Courtland

Posted on 08/25/2009 3:50:05 PM PDT by ForegoneAlternative

Warming oceans could cause Earth's axis to tilt in the coming century, a new study suggests. The effect was previously thought to be negligible, but researchers now say the shift will be large enough that it should be taken into account when interpreting how the Earth wobbles.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; globalwarming; gobaloney; moonbattery; pseudoscience
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Gimmie a break? Please?
1 posted on 08/25/2009 3:50:08 PM PDT by ForegoneAlternative
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To: ForegoneAlternative

WHAT Global warming? The slight changes in climate that are far less dramatic than many in Earth’s history long before man become “industrialized”?


2 posted on 08/25/2009 3:51:59 PM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country...)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

I believe the moon has a far greater effect on regulating the tilt of the earth.


3 posted on 08/25/2009 3:52:14 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

OMG! OMG!


4 posted on 08/25/2009 3:52:18 PM PDT by Hang'emAll
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To: ForegoneAlternative

This HAS to be a Jerky Boys routine or an episode of Punk’d. No sane person could seriously believe this.


5 posted on 08/25/2009 3:52:24 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

Mr. Newton disagrees.


6 posted on 08/25/2009 3:52:53 PM PDT by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

Except that...the oceans are not warming.


7 posted on 08/25/2009 3:53:30 PM PDT by Busywhiskers ("Every normal man must be tempted at times to hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats" -Henr)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

The purple blotter is bad acid, man!


8 posted on 08/25/2009 3:53:44 PM PDT by EricT. ("Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government." -George Washington)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

She was dreaming when she wrote that so forgive her if it goes astray.


9 posted on 08/25/2009 3:55:10 PM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

Riiiiight.../roll eyes


10 posted on 08/25/2009 3:56:27 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
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11 posted on 08/25/2009 3:57:03 PM PDT by org.whodat (Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
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Global warming is the ultimate boogieman. It causes everything.
12 posted on 08/25/2009 3:57:15 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: ForegoneAlternative

Sounds like some brains are a bit wobbly.


13 posted on 08/25/2009 3:57:15 PM PDT by LiberConservative (OneBigAssMistakeAmerica)
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To: EricT.

Actually it’s the brown acid...stay away from the brown acid


14 posted on 08/25/2009 3:57:30 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

Then I’ll buy a bigger boat.


15 posted on 08/25/2009 3:57:55 PM PDT by Gator113 (It's about stupidity, stupid. IMPEACH HERE, IMPEACH NOW.)
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To: ForegoneAlternative
Was the end of the Ice Age caused by man-made global warming? Are you suggesting that Mastodon farts put so much methane in the air so as to cause the formation of the continents as we know them (ya know, glacial recession and all)? Doesn't seem likely to me.
16 posted on 08/25/2009 3:58:22 PM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

LMAO .. the sky is falling the sky is falling.
What a bunch of idiots.


17 posted on 08/25/2009 3:59:14 PM PDT by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

In other news, the stupidity of democrats may cause the earth’s rotation to slow. The reason: stupid objects radiate morons and other sub-elementary (pre-school) particles; they carry momentum away and reduce that of earth.


18 posted on 08/25/2009 3:59:23 PM PDT by Tax Government
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XXXX could cause YYYY to ZZZZ

Can I play too?

Global Warming could cause the universe's time to change direction and return us to the BIG BANG.

I want a grant to study this theory.

19 posted on 08/25/2009 3:59:25 PM PDT by C210N (A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
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To: ForegoneAlternative

We’re doomed. We’ll never make it.


20 posted on 08/25/2009 3:59:28 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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