**Deferred** Ice Ages, Carbon and Climate

Speaker: Prof Andrew Fowler (MACSI, UL and University of Oxford)

Time: 2:15PM
Date: Thu 21st April 2011

Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room

Abstract
* This seminar deferred to later date *

We argue that, while Milankovitch variations in solar radiation undoubtedly have a major influence on the timing of the Quaternary ice ages, they are incidental to their underlying causes. Based on observations of the significance of CO2, we propose a simple energy balance type model which has the ability to explain the underlying oscillatory nature of ice ages.

(This talk is part of the Meteorology series.)