Concern has been expressed by the National Science Foundation that possible alterations of Jupiter's orbit, following successive major cometary impacts, may affect the earth's orbit – slightly, but still decisively – and so change the annual patterns of our planetary weather.
Associated Press, May 16, 2006
Article in Bloomington Times-Tribune
Bloomington, Indiana, May 17, 2006
Had this latest – and most severe – ice-age taken an age to arrive, instead of only decades, enough preparation might have been possible to spare those hundreds of millions who froze in the north… those hundreds of millions who starved in the south. Might have spared us, as well, four – now almost five – barbaric centuries, with what remains of civilization learned, like our language, from those relatively few books surviving.
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