The Earth was its furthest distance from the Sun for 2007 on Saturday, July 7.
During the next decade the Earth will always be closest to the Sun in early January and farthest from it in early July.
3 thoughts on “In case you missed it”
Comments are closed.
complications! So our northern summers will be cooler than the south’s, and our winters warmer. But they have less land! And pollution! data skew … data skew …
Which can be skeptic fodder.
I realize solar influence is an RMS function, squaring the distance rapidly diminishes the influence, so a small change looms larger ( 101 squared is 2% larger than 100 squared). My point is that all these details are tools for deception. The right-wing says that the warming is from solar cycles, while saying that a cooling cycle is coming. See how it can get to where any idea can be refused? This works for the right-wing. Dumb is a tool.
We have to be so careful. I believe one of the best things a progressive “little person” could do to promote our side, is to create wonderful resonant short phrases that are optimistic and/or sharply targeted.
Richard wrote that we should “create wonderful resonant short phrases that are optimistic and/or sharply targeted” to help influence climate naysayers.
I suppose “The relation between perihelion, aphelion and the Earth’s seasons changes over a 21,000 year cycle,” isn’t quite what you have in mind, eh Richard?
How about “Don’t be stupid”?