Category Archives: Ice Ages

The straw that broke the camel’s back

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Clive Best

One of the great mysteries of climate science is the origin of the 100,000 year glacial cycles on Earth which have occurred  over the last million years.  These are interspersed with regular “short” interglacial periods coincident  with a maximum in … Continue reading →

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Lunar madness

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Clive Best

I had  hoped to calculate from the JPL ephemeris how the regular 100,000 and 400,000 cycle  in the eccentricity of the earth-moon orbit around the sun  would also effect the moon-earth orbital eccentricity. Such variations could dramatically change the tidal … Continue reading →

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Does the Moon trigger interglacials?

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Clive Best

Why did the last 8 glacial periods only end when the earth’s orbit around the sun reached maximum eccentricity ? This is the real unsolved mystery of the Ice Ages as discussed in previous posts and recently on scienceofdoom. Phenomenology of … Continue reading →

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