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Orbital forcings:

  1. Eccenticity in the Earth's orbit - 21k year cycle
  2. Obliquity (tilt of Earth's axis) - 41k year cycle
  3. Precession (The time at which Earth is closest and farthest from the sun) - 100k year cycle
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