After observing the
temperature changes in the recent past as compared to seasons in my childhood I
developed an interesting hypothesis that led me into believing that the climatic
change in the world may be a universal phenomenon resulting from the
change in axis of a heavenly body or its land mass. I developed this hypothesis
a year ago and discussed it with a couple of my friends starting with Manas
Bhaskar but very soon resumed my efforts in other thought experiments I was conducting at
the time. Recently in view of the more drastic changes in Delhi's climate I
have been forced to contemplate on the hypothesis to analyze what kind of
implications it will entail. In assuming so the following implications may come
out directly from the hypothesis which I have not tested yet and is only a
product of a thought experiment.
Due
to the shift in the Earth's axis the polar regions maybe moving away from the
axial focus resulting in the change in the heat received from the sun. If
assuming that the region around the northern axis are moving towards the
southern axis and the regions around the southern axis are moving up towards
the Northern axis in a cyclical rotation, it can be contemplated how this
change in the axis of the earth will affect the climate of the planet. North
Pole regions due to their movement towards the south of the axis due to the
shift would start to receive more sunlight and hence would start to melt the
polar ice caps. Similar conditions would prevail in around the South Pole where
due to the northern movement of the regions around the south pole, these
regions would start receiving more sunlight and therefore melting the polar
icecaps in the south as well. Now due to the axial shift similar type of
movement will be seen in other parts of the world. India will become more
equatorial and start receiving more heat and thus the climate in India will
become much warmer. Throughout this winter we have experience this kind of
effect. There have been short and less cold winters in this and previous years.
Even if land mass
reorganization due to the movement in Earth's tectonic is considered, a similar
hypothesis can be developed where the reach of the Sun's heat changes in
intensity in the affected regions and thus causing a fair change in the
climatic conditions of the planet. But if ever such a hypothesis is considered,
the industrialists would start questioning the very effort that the
environmentalists have made in the past few decades in strengthening their
argument for Global Warming. They would argue that the green house gases
emission is not the reason for the melting of the polar ice cap and thus the
rise in the ocean's water level. To that I would say that Global Warming would
still play a decisive role in the
climatic conditions of the Earth in the future. This is because the
regions of land that will replace the polar region in the future and are
already replacing in the present are the regions of human habitation where the
emission of green house gasses is considerably high. Hence the regions that
will be and are replacing the polar regions will experience the green house
effect and thus making it difficult for the polar regions to be replaced with
the equally polar regions. These new regions will be warmer and thus although
the old ice would be melting, there will not be the formation of older ice.
This kind of theory
would also fit on how ten thousand year ago there was ice age on the land mass.
This maybe because at that time the Earth's axis was centered around the main
land mass and thus freezing it. Also this will also help in predicting the future
weather conditions through a larger scale of time, and even on other heavenly
bodies. Although I realize that such a hypothesis may be empirically absurd but
it most certainly defines a distinct and alternate perspective in which the
problem of climatic change may be observed, analyzed and evaluated. Also I have
not in any way researched about such axial shifts.
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