Tag Archives: Ice Ages

The Moon’s eccentric orbit

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Clive Best

As far as I can tell no long term study of lunar eccentricity has been done, so  I decided to begin investigating this myself, even though I am a complete novice in astronomical calculations. The key resource for all planetary … 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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A challenge for climate models

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Clive Best

Should we bet the future of the world’s economy based on AR5 projections of future climate change? The earth’s climate has been dominated by a series of glaciations for the last 3 million years. For the last 800,000 years  brief … Continue reading →

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