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Originally Posted by Dove
One serious consequence of this is the inability to understand the cause of the Ice - ages.
Alan D.
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Except we
do understand the cause of ice ages. We've known about it for a long time - quite subtle changes in peak insolation at higher northern latitudes (driven by physically understood periidic eccentricity, precession and tilt variations), magnified by attendant changes in CO2 that provides sufficient alteration in Earth's energy balance to make these oscillations global, visible in the glacier and ice sheet palaeoclimate, and ocean sediments around the world. Or perhaps you think the oxygen atoms in the ice cores conspired to produce that same pattern, that glaciers conspired to advance and retreat at these times? Good grief, crack open some basic textbooks Alan! This thread has managed denial of: orbital mechanics, climate physics, evolution and relativity, an impressive list. It's implying grand conspiracies of scientists around thrthe world. So I'm definitely out of here now. We need to build our understanding on reason, logic and reality. Not seeing that in this thread!