Tag 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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Tidal variations

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Clive Best

Finally I have a working program which calculates the strength of tides based on the relative positions of the moon and the sun. This is based on the JPL ephemeris which is the most accurate available and is also used … Continue reading →

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