Wednesday, June 24, 2020

How Ice Ages Happen: The Milankovitch Cycles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA788usYNWA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milutin_Milankovi%C4%87 (1879-1958)

Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term is named for Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milanković. In the 1920s, he hypothesized that variations in eccentricityaxial tilt, and precession resulted in cyclical variation in the solar radiation reaching the Earth, and that this orbital forcing strongly influenced climatic patterns on Earth.