My question is:What is the difference of the earth wobbling during orbit and the effects of global warming?

Question

I have gone to the Illinois state museum, and i saw a diagram of the earth wobbles, and it said something about the earth having an ice period, and a warming period. It said something about happening every so many million years or so. I was just thinking that maybe its just a natural thing that's happening today, just that maybe there's two situations in one. Or that we just dont notice that this might be happening.

Answer 1

Global warming is a natural cycle.  We are currently coming out of an Ice age or ice period which isn't really millions of years but rather thousands.  This explains why we uneducated humans are saying Global Worming as Opposed to Global Climate Fluctuation.

The earths wobble actually is what causes the seasons.  Global Climate Change, or whatever it is, is un related.

By definition we are still in an ice age ( and you probably thought that everyone would be frozen during one of those) because there is ice on both poles.

Global warming is in my opinion a load of propaganda.  It has actually been disproven but those who have disproven have not been noticed or publshed by the media (strange...).

Answer 2

Funny thing...I also posted a question about Global Warming a few hours ago. First off, I don't think "wobbling" causes the earth's seasons--the earth's seasons are caused by its tilt in relation to its orbit around the sun (when the N hemisphere is tilted to the sun, we have summer; when the S hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, we have winter).

I stumbled across a video about how the "facts" about Global Warming is skewed. For example, the video mentioned that in Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvenient Truth", data was manipulated in various ways to support Global Warming (i.e. removed data about the most recent warming during the Vikings era; how samples of CO2 taken from ice caps years ago were compared to samples of CO2 taken from a mountain in Hawaii--of course, when linked together, would show that there is a dramatic increase in CO2 levels).

Nowadays, it's so hard to even believe in an idea because there will always be arguments against arguments against arguments. Is the idea driven by political means or by personal means?

I think the bottom line is that we will believe whatever we want to believe. But, one thing is certain: no matter how much CO2 accounts for the greenhouse effect/global warming, our increased production of it does harm the planet in some way, shape or form. However big or small of an action we take today to help the environment, collectively, will help.

Answer 3

This is called a Milankovitch cycle (there are several) and they certainly do lead to changes in global temperatures, but not in the sense that you are thinking of. As the wobble increases in size then winter months become colder (the closer to the poles you are) and summer months warmer (the closer to the poles you are).

Other cycles cause the Earths orbit to become more or less eccentric and drive temperature changes more dramatically.

These are natural cycles that we can do nothing about, but even these cycles cannot account for the current rate at which global temperatures are rising.

Check out wikipedia. You can click on the graphs to get better a clearer view.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitc...