A little acknowledged fact in the era of global climate change hysteria, the Earth's climate is known to be cyclical. Sometimes the Earth's climate warms. Sometimes it cools. Climate cycles of 40,000 years and 23,000 years have been identified and attributed to the tilting and wobbling of the Earth's axis.
Now, University of New Hampshire scientists who have studied Greenland's ice report that the Earth's climate may move in cycles as small as 11,100 years, 6,100 years and even 1,450 years.
The scientists hypothesize that the waxing and waning of the sun may in fact be responsible for this 1,450-year rhythm, which, incidentally, also shows up in carbon-14 tree-ring records.
Although no one has yet suggested that the Earth is currently in a thermal upswing from this 1,450-year rhythm, consider the opening lines from the Cascades' 1963 hit Rhythm of the Rain,
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain, Telling me just what a fool I've been...
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