A simple search on the internet would of brought you to wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Milankovitch_cycles

The ice core drilling and ocean floor core samples make it abundantly clear that over the last million years there have been 10 cycles.

That has more foundation than all the computer models in the world.  It is based on the facts not supposition, hockey sticks or wags.

Don't waste your vote, vote Green or Independent in the next election.

by mcamelyne on 03/21/2010 03:57:08 AM EST

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Did you bother to read about Milankovitch Theory?  It has only to do with changes in the Earth's orbit and axial tilt relative to the sun.  It says nothing about the massive increases in greenhouse gasses, some of which do not occur naturally, not to mention the unnatural mixture of those gasses, and which is caused entirely by human beings.

Go ahead.   Keep denying it.  But you're children won't be able to, and they'll blame you for their problems, as they'll be right to do so.

by EveningStarNM on 03/21/2010 05:43:32 AM EST

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For Milankovitch Theory to have any bearing on this issue, the Earth's tilt would have to have changed dramatically in just a few decades.

Has it?

This is why so many of us think you deniers are idiots.

by EveningStarNM on 03/21/2010 05:46:04 AM EST

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If we can agree that the earth changes orbit and tilt and that in turn causes heating and cooling cycles of the earth as well as solar radiation then we have a place to start from.

Heating of the earth's core as a result of  these changes increases the amount of precipitation which increases the amount of snow and reflected light which in turn creates cooling temperatures and brings on an ice age.

Greenhouse gases also increase the water vapor, increasing the snow, triggering an ice age.  Like I said before, its cyclical, maybe we sped up the cycle a few decades.  In the galactic scale its a non-event.

Either way we better start building bio-spheres with fusion energy reactors.

Don't waste your vote, vote Green or Independent in the next election.

by mcamelyne on 03/21/2010 11:09:14 AM EST

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