TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GALACTIC SPIRAL ARM TRANSIT Export

@article{citeulike:6074724, abstract = {We re-examine past suggestions of a close link between terrestrial climate change and the Sun's transit of spiral arms in its path through the Milky Way galaxy. These links produced concrete fits, deriving the unknown spiral pattern speed from terrestrial climate correlations. We test these fits against new data on spiral structure based on CO data that do not make simplifying assumptions about symmetry and circular rotation. If we compare the times of these transits with changes in the climate of Earth, the claimed correlations not only disappear, but we also find that they cannot be resurrected for any reasonable pattern speed.}, author = {Overholt, Andrew C. and Melott, Adrian L. and Pohl, Martin}, citeulike-article-id = {6074724}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/705/2/L101}, doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/705/2/L101}, journal = {The Astrophysical Journal Letters}, keywords = {astronomy, attribution, climate, correlation, cosmic, paleoclimate, solar}, number = {2}, pages = {L101--L103}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 15:23:02}, priority = {2}, title = {TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GALACTIC SPIRAL ARM TRANSIT}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/705/2/L101}, volume = {705}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6074724 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6074724 N2 - We re-examine past suggestions of a close link between terrestrial climate change and the Sun's transit of spiral arms in its path through the Milky Way galaxy. These links produced concrete fits, deriving the unknown spiral pattern speed from terrestrial climate correlations. We test these fits against new data on spiral structure based on CO data that do not make simplifying assumptions about symmetry and circular rotation. If we compare the times of these transits with changes in the climate of Earth, the claimed correlations not only disappear, but we also find that they cannot be resurrected for any reasonable pattern speed. IS - 2 JF - The Astrophysical Journal Letters EP - L103 TI - TESTING THE LINK BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GALACTIC SPIRAL ARM TRANSIT VL - 705 SP - L101 KW - astronomy KW - attribution KW - climate KW - correlation KW - cosmic KW - paleoclimate KW - solar AU - Overholt, Andrew AU - Melott, Adrian AU - Pohl, Martin PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/705/2/L101 ER -