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Friday, November 16, 2018

Milankovitch Cycles and the Greenhouse Effect

No one can rationally say that the world’s average temperatures have NOT demonstrably begun to increase. Some believe this warming is caused by the Milankovitch cycle — however, the scientist, Milankovitch, had predicted global cooling. His peers pointed out that this is what might have occurred under normal conditions, but that increasing CO2 levels would overwhelmingly counteract such gradual cooling changes. And, indeed, if it weren’t for the Milankovitch cycle dampening the rate of temperature increase, we would be experiencing a much more dramatic warming.

So, instead of employing denial as a psychological defense mechanism against the terror called global warming, we all need to both intelligently adapt to our changing world AND to address the source of the problem (our unsequestration of carbon to fuel our machinery).

Note: If we don’t change our direction, we’ll wind up exactly where we’re headed. 

Milankovitch Cycle: 
https://www.universetoday.com/39012/milankovitch-cycle/

Global cooling vs warming:
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/giss_temperature2.php

Milankovitch and Physical Science
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2001/jun/28/physicalsciences.highereducation

Mann’s hockey stick was too short: