Sound Politics Public Blog: Alert Mayor Nickels, the Earth Moved, the Climate Changed

October 11, 2006

Alert Mayor Nickels, the Earth Moved, the Climate Changed

Published online: 11 October 2006;

Spanish rodents lived and died by changes in our orbit.

By: Heidi Ledford

Mayor if you'd just stop hopping up and down the earth may hold still.

Just another item in the "climate change is outside mans' control" line of reasoning.

The Earth is well known to fluctuate in a number of defined ways: its axis wobbles about; its tilt with respect to the Sun changes; and the degree to which its orbit isn't circular varies too. These astronomical forces, known collectively as Milankovitch oscillations, can affect the climate on Earth by altering the amount of sunlight received by different regions of the globe.

Seriously, the amount Mayor Nickels' program in Seattle to reduce warming is overwhelmed on orders of magnitude by the Earth's own rotational variations.

Just a few of the Solar, Orbital, Geological variations that affect climate, none of which Mayor Nickels can effect no matter how many times he clicks his heels together.

Sunspot 11 year cycle
Solar Variations
Solar 1100 year cycle
Milankovitch 21,000 year cycle
Orbital influences
The Maunder Minimum
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation
El Nino Southern Oscillation
North Atlantic Oscillation
Volcanic cycles

Posted by jcmount at October 11, 2006 03:40 PM | Email This

Comments

1. Stay tune, soon you will hear that the sky is falling, and that is reason enough to spend 10 Billion + on the Seattle Big Dig! It will soon be dual duty as a fallout shelter.

Posted by: GS on October 11, 2006 04:39 PM

2. Can anyone point out how Nickels plan to reduce Seattle's emissions will work if unenlightend cities around Seattle don't follow suit at the same time?

Posted by: SouthernRoots on October 11, 2006 04:57 PM

3. GS, add another $10 B so the tunnel will survive the rise in the sea level.

SouthernRoots, I am much more worried about the Mayor's and the Council's emissions. It usually costs me me taxes.

Posted by: JCM on October 11, 2006 05:02 PM

4. This won't catch on because it is based in science, not politics. True scientists attempt to understand the world around themselves. Political scientists, such as those hired by Al Gore, attempt to manipulate the evidence and reporting to create an alternate world , with said politician at its center.

Posted by: Wally on October 12, 2006 09:27 AM

5. Are you a global warming denier? You could be hung:

Nuremberg-style trials proposed for trials for global warming skeptics

Posted by: Obi-Wan on October 12, 2006 11:42 AM

6. Claiming that we are causing unprecedented global warming makes as much sense as saying that Iraq never had WMD's. Ask the dead Kurds if Saddam had chemical weapons. Ask a global warming alarmist how all the fossil fuel got under the ice. Did the plants and animals burrow under the ice to die? My guess is that sometime in the past it was much warmer up there. Oh, crap I've blasphemed myself.
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Posted by: Wally on October 12, 2006 01:36 PM

7. Obi,

Absolutely!!! Indicted my a**!!!

The Al Gore Scare Global warming thesis is utter Barbara Streisand.

However my point is climate is cyclical, driven by multiple cycles of varying periods.

We barely understand these cycles. When the maximum of several cycles coincide climate warms.

How can we possible know if a increase of CO2 315ppm to 358ppm in 50 years, has comparable impact of increasing solar output and orbital variations. The CO2 question is complicated by the biofeedback loop. More CO2 means more algae in the ocean fixing the CO2.

To say human are the cause is simplistic as hell and irresponsible.

I say trails for those pushing junk science.

Posted by: JCM on October 12, 2006 02:51 PM