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Many comets had undoubtedly visited the System; until the Earth conditions were correct, they would merely have gone into shortperiod orbits around the sun and waited, boiling off some of their ice at each perihelion passage until they were consumed.
The Nitrogen Fix Clement, Hal, 1922- 1980
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Our records do not go back that far -- not, that is, of furnished or shortperiod lets.
Sleeping Murder Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1976
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As the earth climate acts as a low pass filter, the ice age sensitivity doesn’t say anyting about sensitivity to shortperiod centuries fluctuations.
Christopher Monckton: Apocalypse Cancelled « Climate Audit 2006
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