User talk:McFudd

McFudd 12:41, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Username created, McFudd replaces previous posts with IP only. McFudd 12:38, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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Orbital forcing
Hi. Please don't be silly about this. References to peer-reviewed literature don't merit comments about OR or VER. Quite why you're re-inserting the 120 kyr period when its well-known to be 100 kyr I don't know. Count them on the graph if you can't find Milankovitch cycles William M. Connolley 22:40, 9 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Hello, I appreciate your patience, I've only had a username for 2 days and have still got the training wheels attached.

I do not wish to be difficult, be we do not seem to be communicating effectivly. I do not doubt the factual accuracy of what you are saying, in fact, having viewed your online credetials I am quite sure that you are correct.

My first edit in this cycle was due to a clear contradiction within the article, the is/not 'particularly regular' point from my first message, and a desire to clean-up some unattractive wording. You were good enough to post a external link but I am unable to find any meaningful information there that would satisfy WP:VER, which link you also provided.

I have viewed the site several times and honestly I can make no sense of it. This is my best guess:


 * "Today's comparatively warm climate has been the exception more than the rule during the last 500,000 years or more. "

Today’s climate is relatively warm when viewed at the 500kyr level.
 * "If recent warm periods (or interglacials) are a guide, then we may soon slip into another glacial period."

If we look to historic cycles for a prediction, it looks like we’re headed for a relatively cold period.
 * "But Berger and Loutre argue in their Perspective that with or without human perturbations, the current warm climate may last another 50,000 years."

But the authors say don’t worry about it, whether or not humans have any affect on climate, we’ve still got 50kyr or so of the warm stuff.
 * "The reason is a minimum in the eccentricity of Earth's orbit around the Sun."

Because of a factor detailed in Wiki Orbital Forcing.

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You also made another edit in which you changed a numeric value (from 120 to 100) but didn't include a link or explanation. Again, I am quite sure that you are correct and the value should be 100. It is simply that the value was 120 when I got to the article, in fact it appears to have been there since Jan31, 2005, and without a verifiable link I thought best to revert it.

Do you think we could compromise? If you were to do a re-write the 2 pars in question, to clean up some of the awkward wording, make sure the factual information is accurate and post a link to a more easily verifiable website, we would have a Win/Win going here. You would be able to be sure of the information, and I would get a more attractive addition to an otherwise quite wonderful article.

Thank you. RW

ps, I won't insult someone of your experience by posting a ref to wp:ver, but I did read it and the burden of proof is explicitly on the posting editor.

McFudd 06:52, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Please don't throw WP:VER around; it won't do any good. As to the two paras: I'm not sure whats unclear. But in all events, please discuss this on the OF talk page not here William M. Connolley 10:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

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