Meteorologists and climatologists have theorized for nearly 100 years that certain gravitational cycles of the moon strongly affect certain weather and climate cycles. However, research in this little known field has been met with some criticism, skepticism and even disbelief by some in the community that do not understand the moon’s gravitation cycles. Because of this, most of the recent research concerning global warming and other climate changes have been centered on mainstream thinking, with very slow progress.
This chapter will take the results of the mainstream research, incorporate some earlier, largely overlooked non mainstream research by Bryson (1948), include new research, tie them together, and put forth a new and very credible hypothesis for the major causes related to Global Warming and global cooling cycles.
Figure 17: It takes approximately 4.6 years to reach the next peak syzygy lunar declination. It also shows that the highest declinations occur every 5th cycle, thus acting like goalposts with 3 smaller cycles sandwiched between the 2 large 18.5 year cycles. (click image to enlarge)
Let’s look at specific PFM cycles, and then determine what happens to the climate as certain recurring cycles of the moon’s declination cycles exerts enough gravitational force to cause cyclical higher than mean tides in the earth’s oceans and atmosphere.
As seen in Figure 17, the moon reaches strong syzygy declinations either above or below the equator approximately every 4.5 years. However, the maximum or minimum declinations reach 18 degrees every 18.5 years, and as high as 28 degrees with respect to the equator 9-years later as shown in Figures 16 and 17.
Because of the monthly and yearly oscillating cycles of the moon’s elliptical orbit, the position and timing of the perigees, apogees and the apparent declinations (elevation in the sky in respect to the earth’s equator) are always changing.
Although perigee-syzygys occur every month during the time of full or new moon phase, the most important strong perigee-syzygy earth-moon-sun alignments occur on consecutive months, approximately every 6 months. This provides a total of 4 per year, and about 74 over the course of an entire 18.5-year cycle. Because these syzygys declinations produce the strongest gravitational forces and changes on the earth and oceans, only the declination cycles with strong gravitation cycles will be noted and examined in this research.
To correlate the proper PFM data and cycles, daily cycles of the moon’s distance from earth, height in the sky in relation to the earth’s equator, monthly perigees and other variables were computed and analyzed for this research. Literally millions of pieces of data were needed for the computations for the period 950 AD to 2125 AD.
The actual graphs used for comparisons are shown later within this section, and are correlated with global warming cycles from present day back to 425,000 to 460,000 years before the present.