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Originally Posted by Sunfish
Sure his writing is a bit furry. It is as much anthropology. But these are not “conclusions” and he accepts that I think and says so often. Just trying to correct a few misconceptions from the past if you read it and have read those. Then relating the story from the people themselves who still tell these night sky stories and use an astronomical calendar of sorts based on their one location , rather than through others that are second hand. He is simply tying ideas from different cultures and observations together. It is not a complicated theory of any kind to trying to prove anything, or a theory at all , other than that people wherever you find them, know quite a bit about the movements of astronomical objects where they depend on life outside.
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Duane lost me when started banging on about "Aunty Fran's" deep knowledge (cited in 2003) suggesting there was correlation between drought and auroral activity.
Notably NASA scientists have "not been able to find convincing evidence that the 11-yr cycle is mirrored in any aspects of the climate beyond the stratosphere – such as surface temperature, rainfall or wind patterns"