Climate Change==Earth tilt

[tau_iota_mu_c]

I was given a new explanation for climate change yesterday. A couple of guys had heard from the old timers (read, senile old fools) that the sun used to set in a different location when they were kids living in the same house, so the Earth must be tilting. When I explained that astronomers can pick up unexpected changes at the level of about 1/

Comments

[athiela]

So move to Sydney. You know you secretly want to.

[mmcirvin]

The great thing about this conspiracy theory is that in principle it's one that anyone can check by themselves with no equipment more complicated than a protractor and an old encyclopedia. If one is not an idiot.

[mmcirvin]

Though, come to think of it, living in the hemisphere without a bright pole star does make it marginally harder.

[eb_oesch]

I'm not sure I believe you, you tool of the conspiracy. (May I call you "The Man" for brevity's sake

[mmcirvin]

I've seen the handsome hardcover asserting that, with foreword by the author's Congressman friend attesting to his excellent character.