Milankovitch cycles
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Who is Milankovitch?
→ In 1930s
→ a mathematician called Milankovitch argued that climate change was linked to the way that the Earth orbits the sun, how it wobbles and how it tilts.
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DIFFERENT BITS OF THE CYCLE
Obliquity:
Changes in how Earth tilts on its axis.
Precession:
The amount Earth wobbles on its axis.
Eccentricity (orbit):
Changes in the shape of Earth’s orbit.
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