Earth's history is a roller-coaster of climate fluctuations, of relative warmth giving way to frozen periods of glaciation before rising up again to the more temperate climes we experience today.

after the early 20th century Serbian physicist Milutin Milankovitch. The key players in these cycles are Earth's obliquity, ...

External and internal forcings: External forcing mechanisms involve agents acting from outside the climate system (e.g., Milankovitch cycles). Internal mechanisms operate within the climate system ...

However, due to imprecise age constraints concerning the timing of glacial cycles, researchers have struggled to disentangle the specific influences of precession, obliquity, and eccentricity on ...