Natural Climate Cycles and Global Warming by David Rieck
Natural Climate Cycles and Global Warming The question often comes up whether the changes in climate of the last few decades are due to human caused ‘global warming’, or whether they are just part of nature taking its own course. To help answer this, we need to understand natural climate change. There are different kinds of climate cycles, with different causes. The biggest cycles are driven by tilts in in the Earth’s rotation axis and interaction of Earth’s orbit with Jupiter and Saturn. If you want to know more, look up Milankovitch Cycles and dig in. These are the cause of the ice age cycles, and can be considered constant during a human lifetime. While these astronomical cycles initiate the changes from ice age to temperate and back, they are not the full story. Carbon dioxide, like all gases, is less soluble in warm water than cold water. It is also strongly held by permafrost. The so...