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See also: carbon cycle, carbon dioxide (CO2), climate change feedback, global warming, global warming potential, marine impacts, methane (CH4).
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The Milankovich cycles refer to changes in the earth’s orbit around and orientation toward the sun and have an important bearing on long-term changes in the earth’s climate. They are named after the Serbian astronomer, Milutan Milankovich, who published the “Canon of Insolation of the Ice Age Problem” in 1941.1 In this work, he identified three principle cycles in the earth’s orbit and orientation toward the sun that influenced climate over time and particularly the cyclical recurrence of cold periods (ice ages).
