Milanković cycles on the test bench: Does the Earth's orbit affect the climate?

Karl tells in the »AstroGeo« podcast how the Milankovic theory was first celebrated during the ice ages, but then doubted.

For AstroGeo we regularly research a whole story. Only if you support us financially, the podcast will remain free of charge. Thank you! Why have there been ice ages in the history of the Earth? With this question the Serbian mathematician, engineer and geoscientist Milutin Milankovíc had intensively occupied himself and published his theory from 1920. Thus, fluctuations in the Earth's orbit and its rotation axis influence over several tens of t…