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NASA to the rescue: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Milankovitch/ https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Milankovitch/ Basically it's not measur

by noiv 8y ago

NASA to the rescue: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Milankovitch/ https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Milankovitch/ Basically it's not measurable within a lifetime and the signal of human interaction with the climate is magnitudes higher.

mkempe 8y ago
It is extravagant and ludicrous to claim that the signal of human influence (CO2 ppm?) on the climate is magnitudes higher than that of the Milankovitch cycles -- which have been driving the regular glaciations and interglacials over the last 3 million years.
- lstroud 8y ago
  That said, we do use ice cores from periods that would cross multiple of these cycles. If these cycles change how we estimate those values, then the statistical models we’ve built based on them will need to adjust accordingly. So, it’s not that it doesn’t have an impact, just that the impact probably doesn’t change the trend line.
- noiv 8y ago
  Do the math...