by Darrin A Yarbrough

Created on: April 03, 2009

THE WOBBLE OF THE EARTH
Every 23,000 years planet Earth receives a new north star. This is due to the precession of the Earth's axis, which slowly rotates causing the Earth to wobble on its axis. This is why the Earth experiences seasons. Every 41,000 years the tilt of the Earth's axis changes from around 22 to 25 degrees. This also has a significant effect on our seasons.

Everything is linked together from the collective consciousness of the human race to the Universal consequences of things happening in space. Specifically, the effect of the Earth's rotational "wobble" has a significant effect on the severity of seasons. Right now, the Earth is going through a warming cycle making desert regions significantly drier and hotter than ordinarily experienced. Recognizing that 23,000 years seems a long time to human beings but is relatively short in terms of "deep time" (a concept difficult for most persons to fathom), the changes in climate occur relatively often and are also rather abrupt. Understanding this sheds some light on the fact that the climate most people are familiar with is very likely not as constant as they may think. The planet recently came out of a mini "ice-age" as recent as three hundred years ago.

Recognizing that the temperature and effects of climate are significantly affected by the Sun's radiant energy striking the surface of the Earth, it becomes relatively easy to see that the tilt of the Earth's axis affects how directly those rays of light strike the surface. Regions closer to the equator will also be several miles closer to the source than areas near the poles. In addition, the intensity is not only increased by the closer proximity but also by the angle of incidence in which the rays strike the surface. Rays striking the surface of the Earth nearly perpendicular to its surface will be far more intense than rays glancing off the surface at angles nearly parallel. Therefore, the heat is far less intense at the poles where the regions are most distant as well as receiving glancing blows from the Sun.

Both California and Argentina lie aligned with longitudinal congruence and also fall within similar latitudinal regions. This makes their respective summer periods rather similar in effects. Although when it is summer in the northern hemisphere it is winter in the south and vice versa, when the seasons alternate, the effects are mirrored equivalent to one and other based upon the seasonal circumnavigation of our planet through its annual cycle

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