Category Archives: Ice Ages

Observation of a Lunar Signal in Solar Irradiation Data

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Clive Best

Late last Friday evening as I wasted a couple of hours trying in vain to buy 2 tickets from the London  Olympics website, I filled my time looking further at the SORCE TIM solar irradiation data [1]. The olympics website … Continue reading →

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Evidence of variations in solar irradiance with Earth’s orbit

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Clive Best

Presented here is evidence of variations in solar irradiation as the Earth follows it’s elliptical orbit around the sun. It is proposed that these variations are due to changes in the density of dust clouds lying between the Earth and … Continue reading →

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Part 2: The real cause of Ice Ages ? – Resonant dust clouds ?

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Clive Best

This post proposes that regular variations in interplanetary dust between the Earth and the Sun is the primary cause of  recent ice ages whose oscillations have been parameterised here. The Milankowitz theory of insolation is able to well explain the continuous … Continue reading →

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