Recently, the Northwest Observer had a brief discussion with Astrophysicist Gordon Fulks, an expert on weather and climate. He said January was warmer than February would be, seemingly a contradiction of the seasons. With February weather in the history books turned out he was right because the Earth has an elliptical orbit. The current earth orbit has the planet further from the sun in February 2023 than it was in January of 2023 -- something not correctable by an executive order or a cap and trade tax.

The chart below covers the last 800,000 years of climate data derived from ice core samples and the study of celestial movements.

From the chart you can see that:

1. Elliptical orbits, at the height of eccentricity, coincide with very cold ice ages.
2. We are in the Holocene Climate Optimum, a time of minimal orbit eccentricity. That is expected to continue for about another 10,000 years.
3. Periods of high CO2 follow periods of high volcanic activity as evidenced by volcanic dust detected in the ice core samples. Banning fossil fuels isn’t going to affect CO2 numbers.
4. The blue line on top shows that the amount of solar radiation experienced at the polar regions varies with differing levels of Sun activity and changing atmospheric conditions. Fretting about the amount of ice at either the North or South Pole won’t change a thing.

As the solar system moves within our galaxy and our galaxy along with trillions of other galaxies moves around within the Universe we need to sit back, enjoy the ride and just be grateful for this gift of life on Earth. It’s time to realize that human activity is a product of nature and will never be its master.


--Tom Hammer

Post Date: 2023-02-27 11:44:16

Last Update: 2023-02-27 20:33:53