Milutin Milanković
Serbian mathematician and astronomerWikipedia
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Sep 21, 2026
Alex McColganHOST
Broadly speaking, these variables have stabilized into cycles.
Alex McColganHOST
These cycles were first described effectively by Serbian geophysicist and astronomer Milutin Milankovitch in 1920, and thus were called Milankovitch cycles.
Alex McColganHOST
The first such cycle I want to look at is the changing shape of our orbit.
Alex McColganHOST
Over the course of a 100,000-year period, the Earth's orbit around the Sun becomes more and then less elliptical.
Alex McColganHOST
In the Southern Hemisphere, the reverse is true.
Alex McColganHOST
Because they're experiencing summer during this warmer phase, their summers become even warmer, winters become colder.
Alex McColganHOST
And that's just at this stage of the 100,000 year Milankovitch cycle.
Alex McColganHOST
As the Earth's orbit becomes more elliptical, that 7% sunlight difference turns into a 23% difference.
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Ice ages would come and go in cycles lasting about 41,000 years.
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These cycles were driven by wobbles in Earth's orbit and tilt, what scientists call Milankovitch cycles.
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every forty-one thousand years the planet would cool down ice sheets would expand from the poles sea levels would drop then things would warm up again ice would retreat and life would return to the newly exposed lands your ancestors has been dealing with these cycles for hundreds of thousands of years They knew how to read the signs.
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When the climate started cooling, they'd migrate to warmer refuges.
AndrewPANELIST
Typically, I don't want to roster a center back who's a clearance merchant, but he's scoring.
AndrewPANELIST
Is Milankovic
ScruffyPANELIST
injured? Yeah, yeah.
ScruffyPANELIST
All right.
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ScruffyPANELIST
All right, back to the streamers.
ScruffyPANELIST
Diamande versus Coventry.
ScruffyPANELIST
Milankovic apparently has an injury, so Diamande should certainly be in there.
ScruffyPANELIST
Most likely available in most leagues.
Tas WalkerGUEST
And so it's not based on counting layers.
Tas WalkerGUEST
It's based on to do with what's called the Milankovitch cycles to estimate the core for the rest of the way down.
Tas WalkerGUEST
So 800,000 is a lot of core that's there, a lot of age which is applied to that core.
Tas WalkerGUEST
And it's quite different from the ones in the northern hemisphere.
Tas WalkerGUEST
the precipitation which occurred after Noah's flood.
Tas WalkerGUEST
Now, there's some very powerful model from within a biblical perspective as to the causes of this.
Tas WalkerGUEST
It's not Milankovitch cycles, but it's to do with the evaporation of the ocean, which was warmer after the flood.
Tas WalkerGUEST
And so what is supposedly 800,000 years due to variations in astronomical movements of the Earth is actually due to very rapid precipitation which built these ice cores up.
Steve KeenGUEST
So the fact we developed a civilization relies upon what you might call Goldilocks conditions that applied across this particular peak.
Steve KeenGUEST
These are all called Milankovitch cycles, by the way.
Steve KeenGUEST
These are cycles caused by the change in the rotation of the earth around the sun.
Steve KeenGUEST
Now, if you look at this, taking a longer look, this is the last 20,000 years.
ReissHOST
That's not to say all of a sudden I don't rate him, because I do.
ReissHOST
He's been superb for us, Milankovic.
ReissHOST
But he was kind of one of them players in the side who you thought would never get taken out.
ReissHOST
And maybe a little bit of, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh, God.
John MalkinsHOST
All life on the planet is affected by this.
John MalkinsHOST
And I have friends even now who will tell me that global warming is natural and it's all about the Milankovitch cycles or something like that.
John MalkinsHOST
And I'm just stunned to hear that from people who I think basically have a rational mind.
John MalkinsHOST
They kind of see what's going on.
James ShurtHOST
Although the committed warming we've talked about may delay this significantly.
James ShurtHOST
A long-term cooling trend began on Earth around six thousand years ago, resulting from changes to Earth's tilt, orbit shape and wobble, also known as the Milankovitch cycles.
James ShurtHOST
However, human-driven emissions have now overwhelmed much of this natural cooling trend.
James ShurtHOST
So with no fresh human emissions being pumped into the atmosphere, these cycles would probably reassert their cooling effects far sooner than they would have otherwise.
Frits Byron SoepyanGUEST
And so the fact that we have cooling periods in the temperatures despite the increasing atmospheric state of conservation suggests that CO2, while it does affect the temperature while playing a minuscule role, but it's not the only factor that affects Earth's temperature.
Frits Byron SoepyanGUEST
There are a lot of other factors that affect Earth's temperature, including the tilt of Earth, the Milankovitch cycle, including how the Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical, the tilt of Earth's axis, and how the Earth spins around the Sun, as well as solar activities, which, again, are beyond our control.
Frits Byron SoepyanGUEST
And as well as there are other activities also, which I will talk later on in this podcast, which is El Niño and La Niña cycles, for example, oceanic currents and oceanic cycles that also affects our temperatures.
Frits Byron SoepyanGUEST
So if we were to look at a longer temperature record, so instead of just the past 100 years or so, we look at the past 400 years or so.
Alexis KnightHOST
It's almost like the very slow wobble of a spinning top, if you can picture that.
Alexis KnightHOST
Collectively, those are known as Milankovitch cycles, named for the Serbian scientist Milutin, who worked out how these changes affect the amount and distribution of sunlight that reaches Earth.
Alexis KnightHOST
We're talking about cycles operating over tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years, so this is not something you're gonna notice, you know, 'cause winter was just weird one year.
Alexis KnightHOST
The Earth is playing the very, very, very, very long game, if you will.
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Alexis KnightHOST
Rain can make your basement wet, but if a pipe bursts in your basement on a sunny afternoon, the fact that rain can cause water damage doesn't explain the water currently pouring out of your ceiling.
Alexis KnightHOST
Earth's orbit works the same way.
Alexis KnightHOST
Remember we talked about those Milankovitch cycles? Earth's orbit changes shape over long periods of time.
Alexis KnightHOST
Its tilt changes.
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