CREATESPACE Ice Age

This is an amazing book that explain the orbital dynamics that lead to ice ages! All the stuff I should have learned in school but didn’t. Most interesting are the long forgotten characters that figured all of this stuff out. It’s a quick and enlightening read.

Recommended reading

One thing he mentions that earth has lived through phases in the past when both north and south poles had melted!! Does that mean global warming won’t matter to us much?!

Paying 13 eur for this quality is not at all reasonable and to add here that this was a 90 pages book.

The authors make it clear up front that they are not discussing Climate Change and related issues, and instead are focusing on the causal factors behind why full blown Ice Ages come and go. These factors include Precession (direction the Earth’s axis points rotates over time), Axial tilt (changes from its current 23.5 degrees over time), Eccentricity (how circular vs elliptical Earth’s orbit is), Sun’s cycles, and other unpredictables such as volcanic eruptions. Way too many people have obsessed on CO2 as the single factor as if control of that factor could give us control over climate. We have no control over the Sun, Precession, and Axial tilt, Eccentricity, and volcanic eruptions. Appreciating these other factors will leave the reader with a wiser, broader perspective on the climate issue and whether it is possible to 'control' climate, because just levering CO2 is unlikely to prevent shifts in climate which have been taking place long before we arrived and will likely continue long after we've left the scene.