2002/08/23 by A. Berger, Marie‐France Loutre · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Marine and environmental studies #Planetary Science and Exploration
paper · doi:10.1126/science.1076120
openalex publication_date 2002/08/23 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Today9s comparatively warm climate has been the exception more than the rule during the last 500,000 years or more. If recent warm periods (or interglacials) are a guide, then we may soon slip into another glacial period. But Berger and Loutre argue in their Perspective that with or without human perturbations, the current warm climate may last another 50,000 years. The reason is a minimum in the eccentricity of Earth9s orbit around the Sun.