So there i was driving to work today and a thought crossed my mind as I sat in the ultra fast lane going 10 over and getting passed and tailgated like i was the little old lady from Pasadena. Anyhow here was my thought... everyone these days is talking about global warming and the threat that it poses to the world. Where are the facts? Rush was talking a couple of day ago about how in the alps, abandoned silver mines have been found as some glaciers have retreated? Anyhow we all know that the earth wobbles about its polar axis. Is it possible that the earth wobbles in its yearly progression / orbit around the sun? The third rock gets a little closer to that star we call the "sun" on some laps and further on others? After all gravity is not just an earth thing, it is a whole universe thing... If momma does wobble like a drunken sailor in Thailand in the big orbit, could this effect the global temperature more then man could possibly even consider possible by automobile exhaust and burning the Amazonian jungles? Just a thought... I am still waiting for an answer as to what caused the last ice age to go away... you know the one that created the great lakes! I think uncle sugar needs to spend a few billion to launch a probe to measure the wobble...
Nutz
2 comments:
AFAIK, orbits aren't going to wobble unless another mass passes nearby enough to disrupt the orbit. Orbits might be eliptical or circular in nature. Irregular orbits might be found when asteroids circle each other, but the shape of these things tend to be all kinds of crazy anyway.
The fabric of space has been described like a taught bed sheet. When you place a marble on that bed sheet, it creates a depression around it as it rolls around. That's the visual for a gravitational field. Unless something else rolls into that depression, the marble isn't going to be disturbed.
The best quote about global warming I heard was this. "It's like standing on the road with a big truck coming right at you. Are you going to argue with yourself whether or not this is a dream, or just get out of the way"
This explains a lot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Ages#Causes_of_ice_ages
Be sure to click the link to Milankovitch cycles which speaks about the rotation of earth's eliptical orbit around the sun, the tilt of earth's axis, and a few other combinations.
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