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1-11-2009 2:12 PM
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Elements of the astronomical theory of Ice Age causation were first presented by the French mathematician Joseph Adhemar in 1842, it was developed further by the English prodigy Joseph Croll in 1875, and the theory was established in its present form by the Czech mathematician Milutin Milankovich in the 1920s and 30s. In 1976 the prestigious journal “Science” published a landmark paper by John Imbrie, James Hays, and Nicholas Shackleton entitled “Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” which described the correlation which the trio of scientist/authors had found between the climate data obtained from ocean sediment cores and the patterns of the astronomical Milankovich cycles. Since the late 1970s, the Milankovich theory has remained the predominant theory to account for Ice Age causation among climate scientists, and hence the Milankovich theory is always described in textbooks of climatology and in encyclopaedia articles about the Ice Ages.
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1-11-2009 11:09 PM
tanyamm
Earth is on the brink of an ice age, so that's why we call it global warming. Yup makes sense now.
Global warming=ice age.
1-12-2009 2:16 PM
ColoradoRight
everything is man's fault. The Great and Powerful Algore has spoken!

P.S. might want to fix the spelling on this clip name
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