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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (46308)	1/20/2014 7:13:41 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

I see on page two, 2.2 Extraterrestial climate stress. Fairbridge (1984) formulated the situation as follows: Extraterrestrial climate stress is applied to the planet Earth by four deterministic processes: 1. Planetary orbital motions, dominated by Jupiter and Saturn, transmit momentum by gravitational torques, causing changes in velocity and spin rate to successive planets and the Sun itself. On Earth, spin rate changes appear to trigger seismicity and volcanicity (and therefore dust veils). 2. The Sun accordingly develops its own mini-orbit around the systemic barycentre, with abrupt changes in its acceleration and turning angle that are expressed in the 11 and 22 yr solar cycle of sunspots, electromagnetic radiation of particles and particulate emission that reach the Earth and beyond as the “solar wind”. 3. The Earth’s geomagnetic field is modulated by the solar wind, which triggers geochemical reactions within the gases of the upper atmosphere. 4. Lunar tidal cycles, identified in many terrestrial climate series, develop standing waves in the atmosphere and help to trigger major seismic and volcanic events with contribution to the dust veil. The 18.6 yr nodal periodicity also corresponds to a nutation of the precession parameter and is commensurable in turn with the basic cycles of category 1.