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Did you know that global warming is happening not only on Earth but all of the planets in our solar system simultaneously?

LiteStyle0o: Still think it's man made?

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2 years ago

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  • Parasyte
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HAH!

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If you can comprehend more than one thing at a time try answering the first then maybe try for the second. I know it might be tough but they're both part of the same question.

& felix that's not an answer. Quit posting answers unless you have actually have some input.

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The warming is not occurring on all planets simultaneously, and even on those planets where warming is occurring, their is no pattern of temperature increase that would lead to the conclusion that all warming is due to one source of effect.

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Please- if you wouldn't mind -explain to us why you often answer your own questions. Wouldn't a comment suffice?

  • Parasyte
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What is causing them all to get hotter?

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Scientific opinion & what I believe is that our solar system is approaching a dense region in the galaxy which it passes through every 26,000 years causing the temperature to rise leading up to the Earths poles reversing.

But I guess we can never know for sure until it happens...

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Temperatures are not the direct cause of pole reversal, or even an indirect cause. In fact, pole reversal is so rare in our solar system, it is known to have occurred only twice in the past four billion years, and not to Earth at all. If it was, and we did indeed regularly pass through a dense galactic region resulting in increased temperature, the poles would reverse every 26,000 years. This has never happened.

Geo-magnetic poles do reverse. The last such reversal was over 780,000 years ago, though, and is not predicted to occur again for several thousand years.

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If pole reversal is so rare how can it happen to our sun every 11 years?

Then you say it never happened to earth at all but it happened 780,000 years ago? The "geo-magnetic" poles are what flip. There is no actual metal axis like you'd find on a globe, what other poles are there? The ice caps? They are a result of the magnetic poles.

And yes I know temperature rising is not the cause, it is the effect of the cyclic nature of the universe, global warming co2 rising, it has all happened before.

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There are the geographic poles, based on the Earth's axis, and there are the magnetic poles. The magnetic or geo-magnetic poles on Earth last flipped 780,000 years ago and and may not flip again until another million years or so have passed. The geographic poles on the Earth have never flipped. The geo-magnetic flipping is a common occurrence in the solar system.

When Amundsen and Scott raced for the South Pole, their goal was the geographic pole. Planting a flag on the magnetic pole is a less noteworthy goal, as it moves around so much that a new flag would have to be planted every few years or sooner.

It is the Sun's magnetic poles that switch places every 11 years. The sun has never flipped over physically in its entire existence.

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  • Guest
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Felixthecat, its clear that LiteStyle0o was referring to the magnetic pole reversal when you look at the numbers he references, as opposed to the geographical pole reversal.
As for your statement about Geographical Pole reversal having "never happened" though. It seems true that the geographical poles have not rotated the full 180 degrees that Hugh Auchincloss Brown had suggested in 1948, but there has been vary little research in that regard.
However, there is at least evidence that the geographically relative poles have wandered an excess of 50 degrees in a geographically short period of time.
I site http://gsabulletin.gsapubs.org/content/118/9-10/1099.abstract as evidence.

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It is not at all clear. What is clear that he was unaware that geographical poles exist, but at the same time he is unsure what geo-magnetic poles really are.

Have the Earth's geographic poles ever reversed position? The evidence overwhelmingly says no. Have they ever shifted? Perhaps, but the paper that you cite is preliminary, and only offers n hypothesis that needs further testing. The nascent earth was no doubt heavily bombarded by debris, and that may account for any polar shifts.

I cannot recall a time when anyone suggested that global warming is created by man. That which was suggested is that man has accelerated the process. This seems highly likely provided the evidence.

  • Guest
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Man-made global warming is what you read in the media. From my point of view the carbon tax is just another way to accelerate the rate at which the money is concentrated in the hands of the few.
If pollution was really a problem, it would just take a bit of regulation of aviation and military businesses to drastically reduce the output. Instead of that, all we hear about is a wonderful new tax... Woopy!

 

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