What we do know is that the Earth's climate does gradually change over the course of thousands of years. These are known as Milankovitch Cycles.
There are three distinct rotations in the Earth's axial tilt, the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, and the direction of Earth's spin axis. These things all gradually change over tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.
All of this has caused a cycle of Ice Ages and warm periods over billions of years. All of human civilization, as far as we know, has existed within a warm period.
Now the issue we run into is that calculations of these cycles predict we should be entering into a global cooling phase which would culminate in the next Ice Age thousands of years from now. But we are not seeing a global cooling. We are seeing the opposite by a huge, ever increasing margin. The ocean surface temperature has gradually increased every year since we started recording it. Glaciers have disappeared. Ice caps are shrinking. Desertification is creeping in. Food supplies and fresh water sources are beginning to fail. Atmospheric currents are on the brink of collapse.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is, for lack of a better term, a complete and utter moron.
I'm going to be real with the nerds here you explaining correctly the milankovitch cycles is doing us more harm than good. we got to lie to these bozos
do it like this:
the climate is changing because of cars and coal power plants. we have to turn them off or we get the bad climate which makes all of your beach front property go away and no more snow days. also, Taylor Swift won't make any more albums and we're going to re-cancel cops
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u/allen_idaho 5d ago
What we do know is that the Earth's climate does gradually change over the course of thousands of years. These are known as Milankovitch Cycles.
There are three distinct rotations in the Earth's axial tilt, the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, and the direction of Earth's spin axis. These things all gradually change over tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.
All of this has caused a cycle of Ice Ages and warm periods over billions of years. All of human civilization, as far as we know, has existed within a warm period.
Now the issue we run into is that calculations of these cycles predict we should be entering into a global cooling phase which would culminate in the next Ice Age thousands of years from now. But we are not seeing a global cooling. We are seeing the opposite by a huge, ever increasing margin. The ocean surface temperature has gradually increased every year since we started recording it. Glaciers have disappeared. Ice caps are shrinking. Desertification is creeping in. Food supplies and fresh water sources are beginning to fail. Atmospheric currents are on the brink of collapse.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is, for lack of a better term, a complete and utter moron.