The Wisconsin State Journal runs another filler piece about global warming today, once again reflecting the media’s uncritical acceptance of the false myth that human activity is endangering the biosphere. I am about to term the environmental alarmists short-sighted but upon fact checking, the phrase means failing to take the future into account. The problem with climate change propagandists is their failing to take the past into account, that is if you believe Earth is a very old planet.
Life waxes and wanes with bobbing of the Solar System: The solar system moves through the Milky Way rather like a child on a merry-go-round. It completes a circuit of the galaxy once every 100 million years or so but as it goes it bobs up and down through the dense galactic disc.University of Kansas Professor Mikhail Medvedev points out that episodes of multiple species extinction occur about every “62 million years for at least the past 542 million years”. This corresponds fairly well with the 64 million year cycle in which Earth completes its natural vertical transverse above and below the flattened disc of stars.
Most of Earth's biggest extinctions occurred when the solar system was at its most northerly point in its cycle, which stretches about 230 light years above the galactic plane. Medvedev says that more cosmic rays enter the Earth's atmosphere at that point, killing off species.When the Sun pulls Earth above the shielding mass of the stars between here and the center of the Milky Way, the cosmic radiation increases and the planet passes through massive hydrogen clouds lurking outside of the plane of stars. The “environment” of space changes for millions of years at a time and existing life either adapts or dies. Mother Nature has been trained by the cosmos to be resilient and life has endured much worse than a couple hundred years of the industrial revolution.
