Cosmic Weather Fronts

When cold air meets warm air, we get turbulence. In meteorology, such intersections between two different types of air are known as weather fronts. This is where we get precipitation, wind and instability.

Inside the two air masses, things are generally stable. It is at the intersection that everything happens.

This is true for all sorts of systems, not just weather. It's called fluid dynamics. It happens at the microscopic as well as the macro level.

In this respect, it's interesting to note that it appears from historic records that the onset and demise of glaciation periods have been accompanied by severe weather as well as severe geological events.

While the glaciation periods as well as the warm periods have been relatively stable, the changes from one period to another have been both quick and violent.

When we take into account Henrik Svensmark's work on climate changes, all of this comes together to form a simple picture. In his work, he points out that our solar system moves through distinct regions of space on its way around the center of our galaxy. Sometimes, we are in regions with a lot of cosmic dust. Other times we are in regions with little cosmic dust.

Our solar system is in other words regularly transitioning from one cosmic environment to another.

These transitions correspond to the onset and demise of glaciation periods.

It appears then that the violent climate and geological events we find evidence of in geological samples and ice core measurements correspond to cosmic weather fronts through which we transition from time to time.

Dangerous shelf cloud

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