Definition of Milankovitch theory

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Milankovitch theory

The term 'Milankovitch theory' as it applies to the area of carbon dioxide can be defined as ' An astronomical theory formulated by the Yugoslav mathematician Milutin Milankovitch that associates climate change with fluctuations in the seasonal and geographic distribution of insolation determined by periodic variations of the Earth's eccentricity and obliquity and the longitude of the perihelion'.

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