Originally Posted by
Mark E. Hurling
So it's cold, 7F and -10F wind chill here near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio. We have 7" of snow having fallen TODAY(!) on top of over an inch already from the last couple of days. Record cold to boot. Someone pissed off Elsa of Frozen and needs to make nicey so she'll relent.
All that said, it might be useful to have the astronomically inclined to see what the axial tilt of the Earth is along with checking where in it's elliptical orbit around the Sun is. Could be our "climate change" is the result of the combination of being at the far end of the ellipse and a more extreme tilt than usual.
It's one theory put forth as to why we had ice ages. I learned that on a vacation trip when we looked in at a museum in Wisconsin some 30+ years ago. It put paid, for me at least, to the politicized science of climate change.