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There are multiple cycles in that theory, not just one, so the influence on our climate depends on the periods of all these cycles, and involves potential ampli
by mkempe 8y ago
There are multiple cycles in that theory, not just one, so the influence on our climate depends on the periods of all these cycles, and involves potential amplification due to their harmonies. The largest observed signal in the geological record of the last 3 million years is a ~100k cycle of interglacials within an Ice Age.
Accordingly we should expect the current interglacial to end "soon" and enormously thick ice sheets shall grow again -- we're 12k years into the Holocene; the last interglacial lasted 15k years.