On Aug 7, 12:03*pm, "Curtis Croulet"
wrote:
This topic and the mere mention of the word "tilt" will elicit extended
essays of nonsense from certain parties in this forum. *You've been warned.

By "this forum" sci.astro.amateur is being referred to.

Incidentally, I saw this news item:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0806141512.htm

so astronomers, misled though they are by Newtonian empiricism, do
think they know what caused the Ice Ages now.

John Savard