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Science 22 February 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5559, pp. 1473 - 1474
DOI: 10.1126/science.1069617
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Perspectives

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PALEOCLIMATE:
Enhanced: Cycles, Cycles Everywhere

Thomas J. Crowley

A recent symposium celebrated the publication, 25 years ago, of the first reliable paleoclimatic evidence for Milankovitch's theory that regular changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun drive climate cycles on Earth. As Crowley discusses in his Perspective, Milankovitch cycles are now widely recognized in paleoclimatology and beyond, but the mechanisms of this forcing remain incompletely understood.

The author is in the Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. E-mail: tcrowley{at}duke.edu

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