Earth Tipped on Its Side 84 Million Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests
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Diagram showing solid-body rotation of the Earth with respect to a stationary spin axis due to true polar wander. [Credit: Wikipedia] The researchers say their finding ‘challenges the notion that the spin axis has been largely stable over the past 100 million years.’
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We know that true polar wander (TPW) can occasionally tilt whole planets and moons relative to their axes, but it’s not entirely clear just how often this has happened to Earth, says ScienceAlert.
Now a new study presents evidence of one such tilting event that occurred around 84 million years ago – when dinosaurs still walked the Earth.
Researchers analyzed limestone samples from Italy, dating back to the Late Cretaceous period (100.5 to 65.5 million years ago), looking for evidence of shifts in the magnetic record that would point towards an occurrence of TPW.
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Happy 73rd Birthday to HRH The Prince of Wales
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Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born November 14, 1948), is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II.
Charles was born in Buckingham Palace on November 14, 1948, during the reign of his maternal grandfather King George VI, as the first child of Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was baptised there by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, on December 15, 1948.
The death of his grandfather and the accession of his mother as Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 made Charles the heir apparent. As the monarch’s eldest son, he automatically inherited the titles Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland. Charles attended his mother’s coronation at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953.
Prince Charles was created Prince…
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Goodbye Glasgow – Hello Energy Poverty: The Staggering True Cost of Wind & Solar
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If the Climate Industrial Complex gets its way, kiss goodbye to reliable and affordable energy. The apparent answer all our woes is more of the same: endless subsidies to hopelessly chaotic wind and solar, with even greater subsidies to pie-in-the-sky ‘green’ hydrogen and insanely expensive giant lithium batteries.
If you’re not already suffering the consequences of policies that favour meaningless weather-dependent wind and solar over meaningful coal, gas and nuclear power generation systems, you soon will be. Brits, Germans, Californians and South Australians already know what it is to suffer crippling power prices and unreliable supplies.
After the climate cult jamboree in Glasgow, crony capitalists and rent-seekers have zeroed in on net-zero emissions targets as the next great opportunity for government-mandated racketeering.
Which means this is as good as time as any to get a grip on what net-zero madness will cost us all.
Aynsley Kellow is Professor Emeritus of…
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