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Milankovitch Cycles – Eccentricity

Posted on 2017-01-21 by arjaybe

In the post on Milutin Milankovitch I said I would be discussing the Milankovitch cycles and their impact on Earth’s climate. There are three main cycles in Earth’s relationship to the Sun that have been shown to have an effect … Continue reading →

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Milutin Milankovitch

Posted on 2017-01-10 by arjaybe

Milutin Milankovitch (Milankovic) was a Serbian scientist, born in 1879 in the village of Dalj, in present-day Croatia. It was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At 17 he took up Civil Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, going … Continue reading →

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Evolution – Part One

Posted on 2016-12-04 by arjaybe

Evolution: A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. The Free Dictionary, definition 1(a). Some years ago I published a series of articles about evolution in my local newspaper. It generated … Continue reading →

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