Changes in the amount of solar energy reaching Earth account for certain climate cycles at high and low latitudes. Surprisingly, the effects of a high-latitude cycle evidently reached into the tropics.
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Billups, K. Low-down on a rhythmic high. Nature 427, 686–687 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/427686a
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