A new tropical age

The German language has two distinct periods: The “Ice Age” and the “Tropical Age”. In english it is just called glacial and interglacial.

People look at our current period as “global warming” and connect that with pollution and all kinds of sociological and economic events rather than looking into the mega cycles that happen in not too accurate but rather predictable cycles. We had many ice ages and many tropical ages or “interglacials” before.

The graph shows the huge swing in climate changes over the past 500,000 years

Now – when you look into it more carefully you find an interesting connection between the long range geological cycles and the time it takes for our solar system to circumnavigate the core of our galaxy. Like Earth has seasons when it travels around the sun (takes one year) our solar system has seasons circling around the core of the Milkyway. We are moving at an average velocity of 800,000 km/hr. But even at that high rate, it still takes us about 230 million years to make one complete orbit around the Milky Way! As we look closer we realize that Milkyway is a spiral galaxy that means we are moving closer and closer into the core of the galaxy which is today understood to be a black hole.

While we believe we have approximately 4 Billion years until our sun collapses to a supernova – we may have only 1 Billion years or 4 cycles around the galaxy core until we come so close to the Galaxy center that earth is no longer inhabitable.

In any case I would hope that our respective political and scientific leaders would look much closer into what our mother earth has in store and where it is going than simply accusing energy consumption for the climate change. Once we learn about all the implications, we will have a much better handler on our future :)

Axel

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