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"Much of what has been presented in this manuscript is common knowledge to not only geo-physicists but to the lay person that view televisions excellent educational channels such as the National Geographic and Discovery channels. In many cases, there are more than one theory (or even many) such as the origin and details of the Moon becoming part of Earth's system around the Sun. In these cases, we have presented what we believe to be the most probable scenarios and present them as ""probable"". There are many proxies with respect to Earth's past climate, present status and supportive evidence for Earth's climate future. We have relied heavily on the ice core data because we believe they provide the most accurate and consistent for our past climate. As we pointed out, the ice core data for CO2 are technically not proxy data (i.e. representative agent for CO2) but, as shown in the Figure 55, tiny bubbles provides direct samples of CO2 from the ancient past. There are three primary sources of ice core uncertainties, timescale, diffusion, and sampling. Altogether, these are estimated to be resolvable to within 3% standard deviation (Steig 2005). We are re-assured by NOAA's extensive support of the many American and world-wide groups engaged in ice core data collection, analysis and journal support for publication. Our work is as a result of work by others such as Siegenthaler et al (2005), Petit et al (1999), Siddall et al (2003), Soon et al (2007), Pagani et al (2005, 2006), Indermuhle et al (2000), Dahl-Jensen et al (2012) and many, many more. With complete confidence in the Antarctica, Greenland, deep ocean and other data, we show indisputable evidence that airborne carbon dioxide concentrations has not in the past, does not now dominate our Global Climate and in particular does not dominate Global Surface Air Temperature. Further, that all periods of the Glacial-to-Interglacial- back to-Glacial global climate behavior is dominated by extraterrestrial forces, and indisputably the current Holocene and past Interglacial Periods. In Figures 44 and 45, we show that most probably the three astronomical forces, even in the interglacial periods vary significantly and are far from being understood. Thus, we must accept that we do not understand the mechanisms of our past, present and future Global Climate. But this work does prove that the astronomical forces dominate our global climate and carbon dioxide plays only a small secondary role."

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Dr. Leonard, after leaving the US Air Force following the Korean War, returned to North Carolina State University and received his MS and PhD in Nuclear Engineering. His PhD there was in neutron propagation in the atmosphere from neutron bursts and hence was able to do his post-graduate work, nuclear weapons related research, at the DOD Armed Forces Radio-biology Research institute. At Catholic University of America he taught courses in radiobiology and radiology and later provided consulting at nuclear power plants in radiation safety and radiation protection. He has developed analytical models for radiation cellular DNA damage and repair. These models have provided biophysical insight into the dynamics of cellular damage and repair from ionizing radiation and he has published over 50 papers in this area through the Radiation Research Society, the Health Physics Society, the American Nuclear Society and the International Journal of Radiation Biology. Arthur Lucas was educated in physics starting in 1949 and has spent a life working in the development of instrumentation for the measurement of radiation from x-ray generators, particle accelerators, nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. His work has spread across the many facets of the protection of workers in the radiation environs, working in large corporate, military and governmental organizations. He is now in retirement working as an adjunct professor of physics at the Oklahoma State University. In that position he has become active in both observational astronomy and astromechanics, as well as continuing his activity in radiation safety and medical physics.

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