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Old September 18th 11, 11:28 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default OT ICE AGES:Here's a Serious Question

Now we have some vry bright minds using this group so here's a
question for them

If the accepted cause of the ice age which kicked of in earnest
around several million years ago is seen to be the Milankovitch theory
of earths orbital forcings causing, procession, tilt and wobble
(sounds like a double act that). Well we now know we are at the end of
a very short warm intermission called the interglacial so has there
been any evidence to date of the mechanism that Milankovitch
postulated, happening now?
I note wiki talks of another 50,000 years befor we should see these
changes but that really is guess work, others have said we could start
anytime soon . But I repeat shouldn't we be see evidence first of
orbital forcing?