Episode 27
Ultima Thule (Episode 12) - Forgotten Seasons (Parts 4 - 6)
In the last episode we discussed the origins of climate science and how it came to give us insight into the climate of Earth's deep past. The climate trends discovered through science actually confirmed a mathematical theory of climate by a man who dedicated his life to the subject decades before climate science existed. Milutin Milankovitch had predicted the impact of the deep seasons of Earth - the precession, obliquity, and eccentricity - which together are now called the Milankovitch Cycles. He did this by studying the impact the Sun would have on the Earth based on its tilt, wobble, and position around the Sun. It was only after he died that Milankovitch's theory was vindicated by core and rock samples collected around the world proving his life's work was not in vain. But how was it that Milankovitch saw what no one else around the world could? In order to begin to get an idea we have to see the Earth and our place in it from a completely different perspective... (12/29)
