The Suns Influence of Global Warming

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 I truly believe that science and faith can be brought together but when I think of

global warming I am not sure how to bring them together. Ecclesiastes 1:9 made me think of

the ups and downs of global warming from previous times until now. The cooling and heating

of the earth. Though there is a vast increase of Carbon Dioxide, from the previous warming, I

believe we cannot change this but learn from it. The verse (Eccles. 1:9) states, “What has

been will be again (global warming), what has been done will be done again (changes we are

going through have happened before); there is nothing new under the sun (giving reference to

explain the change is not new)” (NIV).

 While I also looked at understanding biblically of global warming outside of human’s

active role of it, I also wanted to bring another thought to the table. So I wanted to look at

how global warming was seen a while back and compare it to what we may know now. In

2007, Ker Than, writer of Living Science, posted an article about the sun being seen as the

reason for global warming as well as other planets (worlds). Some scientists were thinking

that there was a commonality of what happens to other planets being the same as earth. Some

do not like the thought because that leaves earth experience as a phenomenon but Ker states,

”While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth,

and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and

astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically

sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess

created by our own species”

The debate of the heating and cooling of the earth is quite a deep rabbit hole of unexplained

ideas because there is no one found matter or reason to the effect that is happening. It simply

is happening and scientist give warnings of changes and alarm to the effects of what we are

doing to the earth.

In a more recent research, Brown University of Rhode Island has been doing research

showing that orbital distribution of earth can indeed have an effect from the sun with the sea

ice. They state, “Earth is currently in . . . an interglacial period, a warm pulse between long,

cold ice ages when glaciers dominate our planet’s higher latitudes” (B.U. 2017). With this

research of looking at the highs and low of global warming they explain what may be the

cause of the current warming outside of the carbon dioxide problem is a period called the

precision cycle in which deals with the direction the earths access is tilting-which is referred

to the 41,000-year cycle compels how much the axis tilts or called obliquity (B.U. 2017).

They state, “It’s at 23 degrees at the moment” (B.U. 2017). This main piece of the pie might

just be the answer as to why we are getting less ice to form due to the North and South pole

getting more sunlight and making it warmer (B.U. 2017). 

References

Lee, Aaron Shen, Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown University), Yi Ming of the Geophysical Fluid

Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The work was

supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF-1415464). Article - Earth’s orbital

variations and sea ice synch glacial periods, January 26, 2017 Retrieved on February 20,

2017 fromhttps://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/01/iceages

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Than, Ker. Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds - March 12, 2007 03:27am

ET Retrieved on February 20, 2017 from http://www.livescience.com/1349-sun-blamed-

warming-earth-worlds.html