OT:Global Warming and Junk Science

[Harold F]

Hi,

 From some books:

 From “Einstein’s Universe,” written by Nigel Calder in 1972, updated in
1982.  Page 63.

“The reckoning of planetary motions is a venerable science.  Nowadays it
tells us, for example , how gravity causes the ice to advance or retreat on
the Earth during the ice ages.  The gravity of the Moon and (to a lesser
extent) of the Sun makes the Earth’s axis swivel around like a tilted
spinning top.  Other planets of the Solar System, especially Jupiter, Mars
and Venus, influence the Earth’s tilt and the shape of its orbit, in a
more-or-less cyclic fashion, with significant effects on the intensity of
sunshine falling on different regions of the Earth during the various
seasons.  Every so often a fortunate attitude and orbit of the Earth
combine to drench the ice sheets in sunshine–as at the end of the most
recent ice age, about ten thousand years ago.  But now our relatively
benign interglacial is coming to an end, as gravity continues to toy with
our planet.”

 From “The Discoverers,” written by Daniel J. Boorstin in 1985, Page 210.

“In about 980AD, when Eric had sailed only about five hundred miles 
westward, he discovered to his delight that the rumors had substance. 
Finding a vast subcontinent, he sailed down Greenland’s east coast to Cape 
Farewell.  From there Eric reached up its western coast where he found 
inviting grassy slopes, impressive fjords, and headlands reminiscent of his 
native Norway.  During the three years of his banishment Eric and his crew 
laid out sites for farms and homesteads.  The grass was green the year round.

After Eric’s banishment period, he went back to Norway, where he loaded 
four hundred fifty immigrants in twenty five ships and carried them back to 
the land he called Greenland.

The warm weather continued until about 1200AD, when the ice started moving 
down.

Harold