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| | ScienceDaily: 100,000-Year Climate Pattern Linked To Sun's Magnetic Cycles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Mukul Sharma, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences at Dartmouth, examined existing sets of geophysical data and noticed something remarkable: the sun's magnetic activity is varying in 100,000-year cycles, a much longer time span than previously thought, and this solar activity, in turn, may likely cause the 100,000-year climate cycles on earth. |
 | | Sharma's calculations suggest that when the sun is magnetically more active, the earth experiences a warmer climate, and vice versa, when the sun is magnetically less active, there is a glacial period. |
 | | Sharma notes that more analysis is needed to test his theory. |
| www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/06/020607073439.htm (0 words) |
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