Axial spin?

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how can the precession of the Earth’s axial spin (“precession of the equinox”) drive the Earth’s climate into a state of major glaciation, or drive it out of that state into the warmer climate of the interglacial.

2006-11-28 02:10:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space

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The earth's axis is tilted so that we experience winter when our hemisphere is tiled away from the sun, and summer when tilted towards the sun. But I don't think the axis had to do with the ice age...it was more of a cyclicle phenomenon of our climate.

2006-11-28 02:44:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

It can't. A change in axial tilt could, but not a change in the direction of the tilt.

2006-11-28 10:13:36 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋