Space on MSN5 天
The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it
Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...
Nature7 年
Milankovitch Cycles, Paleoclimatic Change, and Hominin Evolution
External and internal forcings: External forcing mechanisms involve agents acting from outside the climate system (e.g., Milankovitch cycles). Internal mechanisms operate within the climate system ...
Space.com5 天
The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it
"This is important because it confirms the natural climate change cycles we observe ... Together, they are referred to as Milankovitch cycles, after the early 20th century Serbian physicist ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN15 天
Earth’s Next Ice Age Might Already Be on the Way—Here’s What Scientists Just Discovered
Earth’s climate has never been static. It shifts between warm interglacial periods and deep freezes, driven by complex interactions between the atmosphere, oceans, and even Earth’s orbit around the ...
ScienceAlert17 天
Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years
Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.
Nature7 个月
Factors Affecting Global Climate
and other climate forcing factors. Among the more predictable of these changes are cyclical changes in solar radiation reaching the poles. These cycles, first described by Milutin Milankovitch ...