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    Explore how Earth's natural climate rhythms—from Milankovitch cycles to solar variations—have shaped our planet's history, and discover why today's climate change breaks the pattern of these ancient cosmic dances.

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    The warming we've seen in just the past 150 years would normally take thousands of years under natural conditions. Current warming has the fingerprint of greenhouse gases written all over it; it's global, it's happening at all times of year, and it's warming the surface while cooling the upper atmosphere.

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