Climate change and the moon

[equestrian]

Climate change is global, it's reasonable, therefore, to look for causes that are global in nature. There are very few of these. Carbon emissions (while bad in general) do not fit the over encompassing global scheme

I'd like to suggest that a likely candidate is the moon. The moon orbits on the plane of the ecliptic, ~23.4 ( + / - ) degrees from the equator, and skewed some 5 degrees ( + / - ) from the ecliptic

It is this 5 degrees ( + / - ) from the ecliptic that could be of concern, because the moon is in a conservation of angular momentum agreement with the earth, and with each earthquake, the moon's orbit is caused to alter. The change is slight, but with over a million earthquakes a year, "slight" has to be multiplied by a million

But the big concern is this: What happens if stored stresses that have not been exchanged suddenly manifest themselves in a single large exchange.

Could the moon, under those circumstances over shoot a stable exchange and "hunt" for stability?

Could something of that nature be in process now and the effects relate to climate change?

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[Traveler]

Im not sure that this would be a cause to our climate changes but it is a result.

What I would really like to see is a solid measurement of the lunar surface temps from the time the first mission landed in 69 until now.

[equestrian]

traveler
What I would really like to see is a solid measurement of the lunar surface temps from the time the first mission landed in 69 until now.

eq) The moon doesn't have an atmosphere, so I'm not sure what a temperature profile would prove! Discovery since Apollo has shown it to have a small iron core, and surface rock contains remnant magnetism.

Prior to exchanges of angular momentum, the stresses within the earth have to build, as the exchanges are initiated from earth. It would seem reasonable that the stresses are not contained in a potential state, but have some active elements as well. There is no research on this that I know of, but NASA is monitoring the exchanges, so they must have some data that we've not seen

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[Ningishiddza]

eq) The moon doesn't have an atmosphere, so I'm not sure what a temperature profile would prove!
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And you taught physics for 30 years? Yeah, right, how about that.

Um, solar radiation heats the Moon's crust. Black-body radiation. Hello? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

Read and weep Mr. Wizard:

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html

The moon has no substantial atmosphere, but small amounts of certain gases are present above the lunar surface.

[equestrian]

Apollo was an extraordinary program and the ongoing experiments are alluring. The Apollo 11, 14 and 15 missions placed laser reflectors on the moon that are now being used in the Lunar Laser Ranging experiment to measure the moon's ever increasing orbit.

It is a program to watch, because exchanges of angular momentum are ongoing
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Apollo_AS11-40-5952HR.jpg/593px-Apollo_AS11-40-5952HR.jpg

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[Protostar]

Jumps of a planetary body certainly can occur during the "energy phase"
or an "addition of energy" to the orb.

I dont think the temperature of an "orb" has anything to do with the
changing climate as it all STARTS IN SPACE..,
Cycles of solar system and planets occur at their interactions with
gas and magnetic fields..

It is these interactions that cause a planet to glaciate or not.

the moon's gravitational field in conjunction with the earth and
the sun held in check by the interplanetary magnetic field is
really the "tie that binds" that angular momentum to earth's
rotational cycle. Isn't that so?

I agree that the moon's "tug" on earth and the "drag" that is
has on earth is crucial to our rotative state and the fact that the moon is being bombarded by cosmic materials could alter it's
"state" by IMPACT but alas, she is still on course and spirling
down the "spiral staircase" with the rest of our solar system!