Orbital Variations Main Cause Of Climate Change

by JASmius



Aside from the time scale being enormously exaggerated, this makes perfect scientific sense, and leaves the climate change hoaxters with another inconvenient question to answer: Just how does the mere existence of modern capitalist civilization increase the eccentricity of our planet's orbit?:

Global warming theorists have taken yet another hit with a new study out of Denmark which demonstrates that variations in Earth's orbit are the primary causes of climate change, and have been for at least the last 1.4 billion years.

Scientists from the University of Southern Denmark and the China National Petroleum Corporation investigated marine sediment from the Xiamaling Formation in China and determined that the sediment shows evidence that "the same orbital forcing that caused the climate to change 1.4 billion years ago is the underlying force behind global warming today," the Daily Caller reports.

The research, published in PNAS, states: "There is a wealth of evidence pointing to dramatic short-term climate change on Earth over the last few million years. Much of this climate change is driven by variations of Earth's orbit around [Sol] with characteristic frequencies known as Milankovitch cycles."

Milankovitch cycles are fluctuations which occur in Earth's orbit every 20,000, 40,000 and 100,000 years, which bring about an ice age every 100,000 years or so. Currently, Earth is in the middle of a warming period, and has been for the last 11,000 years, Dr. Donald Canfield, professor at the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution at the university and one of the principle researchers, said, the Daily Caller reported.

"This research will also help us understand how Milankovitch cyclicity ultimately controls climate change on Earth," Canfield said in a statement.

"The way our planet revolves around the sun is the ultimate control knob over the climate," the Daily Caller commented.

Really?  That big yellow (well, actually, it only looks yellow when seen through the atmosphere, it's actually white, but I digress....) ball in the sky has greater influence over the planet's climate than little, puny, speck-like mankind?  Who'd have guessed that?

For all that greenstremists accuse capitalists of being "arrogant" in our "treatment of the planet," it's the arrogance of the global warming premise that has always struck me.  That the mere existence of modern civilization, utilizing our planet's rich energy resources in an ongoing explosion of technological development that will eventually, yes, carry us beyond fossil fuels to nuclear fusion and matter-anti-matter reactors and even quantum zero-point energy at some point, could be thought capable of upsetting the balance of a hyper-fragile global climate inflates man's power ludicrously.  In reality, we're not nearly that powerful, and Earth's climate isn't nearly that sensitive.

But it is sensitive to solar sunspot cycles and cosmic dust clouds and orbital fluctuations - or, in other words, major astronomical phenomena.  Earth's inhabitants are not exempt for such things, and such things cannot be prevented by a tiny portion of said inhabitants enslaving the remainder on such risibly false pretenses.

I'm still waiting for Al Gore's declaration of war on the sun.  Which would actually be a more coherent and rational thing to say than anything he's said or done for the past almost thirty years.