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The ~100,000-year cycles that pace #IceAge ❄️ transitions depend critically on #Mars 🔴. Earth's axial tilt also responds to Mars's gravitational influence.

Earth's #Milankovitch cycles* aren't just about Earth and the Sun. They're a product of our entire #planetary neighborhood https://www.sciencealert.com/mars-has-a-surprising-influence-on-earths-climate-scientists-discover

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles#Present_and_future_conditions

#Climate #variation

Mars Has a Surprising Influence on Earth's Climate, Scientists Discover

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's orbit and axial tilt.

ScienceAlert
Daniel FischerJan 14
The Dependence of Earth #Milankovitch Cycles on Martian Mass: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae2800 -> Tiny Mars’ big impact on Earth’s climate: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2026/01/12/tiny-mars-big-impact-earths-climate - study shows how red planet’s pull shapes ice ages.
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Bill MinarikSep 7, 2025

#Sanidine from the Fish Canyon Tuff is essential to understanding the pace of events in the #Cenozoic

High potassium, quickly erupted and cooled, and old enough to have accumulated sufficient 40Ar from radioactive decay. These crystals calibrate neutron flux for 40Ar/39Ar dating. The 28.2 Ma age of the FCT sanidine has been fine-tuned using #Milankovitch cycles of other ash beds in stable sedimentary basins.

photo from MinDat.org by Dan Polhemus

#MinCup25 #Geochronology #DeepTime #Colorado

Niels de WinterMar 10, 2025
Excellent paper by Thomas Westerhold @sciencemagazine and colleagues using precise dating of marine sediments using astronomical #Milankovitch cycles to tease out the timing of #volcanism and #meteorite #impact during the extinction of the non-avian #dinosaurs
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr8584
Niels de WinterAug 23, 2024

Cyclostratigraphy of late Cambrian marine sedimentary records and reconstruction of Earth-Moon system parameters

#cyclostratigraphy #astronomy #paleoclimate #Milankovitch #Moon

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018224004371

Cyclostratigraphy of late Cambrian marine sedimentary records and reconstruction of Earth-Moon system parameters

The Cambrian period is an important era in geological history, marked by numerous major geological and biological events. To better understand these e…

MegatronicThronBanksAug 2, 2024

I went looking for 'Earth orbital precession' and instead landed on this gem of a page.

If you stumble on a climate denier trying to splurge out some 'natural cycles' bilge, just send them here.

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/

#seasons #orbits #glaciers #iceages #milankovitch

Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate - NASA Science

Small cyclical variations in the shape of Earth's orbit, its wobble and the angle its axis is tilted play key roles in influencing Earth's climate over timespans of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.

Hari TulsidasAug 22, 2023
Scientific sources explain how Milankovitch cycles affect Earth’s climate over long time scales, but they cannot account for the unprecedented rise in global temperatures in the past century. Ignoring human activity could have dire consequences for our planet and future generations.#climate #factcheck #Milankovitch
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/08/17/no-milankovitch-cycles-dont-cause-modern-global-warming-fact-check/70471408007/
Greenhouse gases, not Milankovitch cycles, drive modern global warming | Fact check

Milankovitch Cycles and solar inertial motion don't explain modern climate change. CO2 does.

USA TODAY
Jim BoweringJun 28, 2023

Save The Coal
It is good that we are reducing coal-burning. It is important that we don't waste it because we are going to need it. Of course, there's the point of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to curtail warming. We certainly don't want to change the temperature of the atmosphere to the point where the climate reg
https://greencomet.org/2023/06/28/save-the-coal/

#astronomy #climate #iceages #milankovitch #science #seasons #space #weather

Save The Coal

It is good that we are reducing coal-burning. It is important that we don’t waste it because we are going to need it. Of course, there’s the point of reducing the amount of carbon dioxi…

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Show threadllewellyJun 22, 2023
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I've got to wonder what people who study #Milankovitch cycles think of this ...
Jim BoweringMar 27, 2023
Milutin Milankovitch
Milutin Milankovitch (Milankovic) was a Serbian scientist, born in 1879 in the village of Dalj, in present-day Croatia. It was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At 17 he took up Civil Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, going on t
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#astronomy #climate #milankovitch #science #seasons #weather
Milutin Milankovitch

Milutin Milankovitch (Milankovic) was a Serbian scientist, born in 1879 in the village of Dalj, in present-day Croatia. It was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At 17 he took up Civil Engin…

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