Sentences with phrase «postulated different causes»
In 1964, the Norwegian climate researcher Jacob Bjerknes postulated different causes of climate variability on different time scales.
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Conclusion: for us to explain how a loving God could cause us to suffer as a test, we have to assume that God's knowledge is limited, we have to explain the apparently random selection of people to be tested, and we have to postulate a complicated system of rewards in the life to come in order for the different degrees of severity of the test to be appropriately rewarded.
The postulated and very likely cause of the ice ages are variations of the earths orbit around the sun, and variations of the inclination of the earth's axis in relation to this orbit, which cause variations of the sun's heating of different parts of the earth at different times of the year (mainly the northern hemisphere) over long periods of time (tens of thousands of years).
It seems to me, though, that the burden falls on those who predict a different outcome for the atmosphere to show why the differences obviate the need to postulate that a warmer system, upon further warming, will cause a cooler system to cool further.