Sunday, March 15, 2020

Weird Climatic Science

Instapundit links to a scientific study concerning what brought about the ends of various ice ages. By inference, it may also shed light on why they start.
New University of Melbourne research has revealed that ice ages over the last million years ended when the tilt angle of the Earth's axis was approaching higher values.

During these times, longer and stronger summers melted the large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, propelling the Earth's climate into a warm 'interglacial' state, like the one we've experienced over the last 11,000 years.
It’s hard to imagine the humans who existed at the time had anything to do with ice ages ending. It seems our sun and our planet’s orientation towards it drives climate variations.

Poor Greta will be so sad, buy her a lolly.