blame something else!
What is causing our planet to
heat up too much? Well, it is our sun.
Our earth moves around the
sun in a weird way. Depending on how close we get to the
sun, the hotter it gets, simple as that.
A guy named Milutin
Milankovic stated that because the earth moves around the
sun in this weird and complicated ways, we will have hot
and cold cycles, depending on where we are relative to
Right now we are in a hot
period end, and heading into a cold period (not that cold
mind you, the whole world won't get covered by ice).
So, everything moves in
cycles. Day and night (in hours), summer and winter
(in months), hot and cold periods (in thousands of
Ok, so we have hot
and cold cycles, but why do we have an increase in carbon
Many people think that carbon
dioxide causes global warming (read our section
Blame the Humans!), but according
studies, it is quite the opposite. Put it simply, earth
sometimes get too close to the sun (Milonkovitch cycles)
and heats up a little and this heating is causing the
levels of carbon dioxide to increase. Read more
proof on cause and effect of increased carbon dioxide
BBC News: What happened to global warming?
October 9, 2009
wikipedia - Earth Movements. -
how our earth moves around the sun
wikipedia - Milankovitch Cycles
- hot and cold cycles explained in detail
Cause and effect of Carbon Dioxide - does carbon
dioxide cause more heat on earth, or does more heat on
earth cause more carbon dioxide?