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Milankovitch Cycles Impact Climate Change

By , About.com GuideOctober 13, 2006

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The regular wobbling of the earth known as Milankovitch Cycles have been found to impact climate change, extinction, and evolutionary growth spurts. National Geographic reports about the study in Nature.

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February 25, 2010 at 9:04 am
(1) John says:

Matt, the Benthoc Forams and Vostok Ice Cores appear to have a natural rhythmic pattern with cycles about 90,000 ~ 100,000 years, close to the Milankovitch cycle’s longest cycle (about 95,000 years). The other cycles within are like epicycles — sometimes in phase (reinforcing) and sometimes out of phase (mitigating) . Couldn’t a good computer programmer show how these cycles forced global warming and cooling in the past?

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