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2018-05-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

In ancient rocks, scientists see a climate cycle working across deep time

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Posted by 746 2018-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 every 405,000 years, when orbital eccentricity is at its peak, seasonal differences caused by shorter cycles will become more intense; summers are hotter and winters colder; dry times drier, wet times wetter.

How will this affect Keith Richards?

Posted by Frank G 2018-05-09 07:24|| 2018-05-09 07:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Next big thing:

Man-made Elliptical Heating

AKA MEH

Posted by Grererong Bonaparte9840 2018-05-09 07:36|| 2018-05-09 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Scientists have for decades posited that Earth's orbit around the sun goes from nearly circular to about 5 percent elliptical,

5 percent of 93,000,000 million miles in a inverse square law universe, means you get a lot hotter and colder than anything man can do these days.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2018-05-09 07:46|| 2018-05-09 07:46|| Front Page Top

#4 this cycle doesn't match up with actual climate record as best we know it

Posted by lord garth 2018-05-09 08:08|| 2018-05-09 08:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Given the superpowers available to Kent and Olsen, including time travel, this theory has a lot of credibility.

Posted by Grunter 2018-05-09 08:39|| 2018-05-09 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 So it's all Lex Luthor's doing?

Posted by charger 2018-05-09 17:41|| 2018-05-09 17:41|| Front Page Top

#7 How will this affect Keith Richards?

Came up with the riff for Paint it Black last time; next go around bet he comes up with some badaszd shtuff.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-05-09 19:35|| 2018-05-09 19:35|| Front Page Top

#8 CO2 lags, doesn’t matter. But, he had to make obiesance.

“Kent points out that according to the Milankovitch theory, we should be at the peak of a 20,000-some year warming trend that ended the last glacial period; the Earth may eventually start cooling again over thousands of years, and possibly head for another glaciation.”

That’s the money quote. But, it’s not “may”, but “will”. And departures from the interglacial tend to be abrupt.

Posted by KBK 2018-05-09 22:47|| 2018-05-09 22:47|| Front Page Top

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