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New Ice Age Theory
amigoro writes "Most believe that the ice ages are the result of subtle changes in Earth's orbit, known as the Milankovitch cycles. According to one scientist, that is not the case. Robert Ehrlich of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, has developed a model which hypothesizes a dimmer switch inside the sun that causes its brightness to rise and fall on timescales of around 100,000 or 41,000 years, exactly the same period as between ice ages on Earth. The main problem with Milankovitch cycles is that they can't explain how the ice ages go from 100,000 year cycle to 41,000 year cycle. The cycles predicted by Ehlrich's model line up with the observations."
No one tries the old venerable "Frost Post"
This guy's theories are all wrong. Obviously people are causing the 100,000 - 41,000 year cycles. Someone should take away his meterology license...
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
So the new model is heliocentric instead of geocentric. I thought we made this switch centuries ago.
See, I learned something in all those science experiment classes.
OTOH the check word says the "contrary". Maybe the author should use this system to find the solution.
the article doesnt say that, and every ice age so far predates the industrial revolution.... if you read the article that is... you are the one who is the one who is retarded!
bring bak the ponies!!
If most scientists believe that the Milankovitch cycles cause Ice Ages, then it must be true. This is just like the consensus on Global Warming. If this guy doesn't believe that the Milankovitch cycles are the cause, then he's obviously being paid off by some corporation for some reason. Milankovitch cycles are SETTLED SCIENCE. This guy needs to stop being a skeptic and start researching how we can stop these cycles!
there's a Home Depot just an a.u. down the road - we should ve able to swap that out with a longer cycle dimmer and all will be well.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Obviously mans careless use of the environment on earth is the root cause of this heliocentric dimming phenomenon. I call for an immediate halt to deforestation and burning of fossil fuels that initiate the anti-dimming process via subatomic sympathetic astrological particles (SSAP)!!
God was my co-pilot, but then we crashed and I was forced to eat him.
natural global cooling? with scientific backing? this sounds like a global warming denier. he should lose his licence and prosecuted in nuremberg style war crimes courts! quick, someone tell al gore!
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Oh for Christ's sake, really, those mountains HAVE to be less than 6,000 years old. Don't you know anything?
They must be. They're the cause of everything wrong in the world.
Milankovitch, Milankovitch, Milankovitch, Milankovitch, Milankovitch, Milankovitch (Drops onto New Jersey Turnpike)
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One competing viewpoint with this theory is that these events were caused by a solar "Clapper" which flipped the sun when bombarded with echoes and reverberations from the big bang. This non-viewpoint is endorsed by non-dimmer switch oriented non-scientists but these non-scientist find it more plausible...in lots of ways.
Nope, it is caused by Suburbans, HMVs and Expeditions. Obviously even the dinosaurs had SUVs - the ice ages prove it.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
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Oh! Thanks! Who knew winter is actually caused by Santa's exhuast fumes?
Damn, if we could clean that atomosphere up then we wouldn't need to be bothered by seasonal weather!!!11!one!
I knew all along that slight tilt of the earth couldn't affect the weather!
I saw an episode of "Andromeda" where the system's sun would go out every hundred years or so...life imitates TV? (anyone know which epi it wuz?)
That was CNN covering the Bagdad power grid.
Table-ized A.I.
This probably is a precursor for the Second Coming. Unlike the first kid who dropped out of carpentry class, the next kid wants to go to college and he needs to save up.
Engineering is the art of compromise.
. . . that damn annoying hum.
>> a model which hypothesizes a dimmer switch inside the sun
No, seriously? That must be how they get it to be all dark and stuff at night.
You know you labelled yourself a douche bag. Not that I've ever seen or even know what a douche bag is. Something from the feminine persuation I will suppose, and that you are a member of the he-man women hater club.
Most believe that the ice ages are the result of subtle changes in Earth's orbit, known as the Milankovitch cycles.
Whereas I believe that the ice ages are the result of subtle changes in John Malkovich's moods, known as the Malkovich cycles.
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The sun causes the Ice Age, but doesn't have any significant effect when Global warming is involved, only human can warm the earth... mostly conservitive humans.. :)
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit!
Dear Earth,
Which one of you apes put the sponge in the cosmic microwave?
- God