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{{See also|Milankovitch cycles}}
Since orbital variations are predictable,<ref name="Varadi2003">{{cite journal|author1=F. Varadi |author2=B. Runnegar |author3=M. Ghil |author-link3=Michael Ghil |title=Successive Refinements in Long-Term Integrations of Planetary Orbits |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |volume=592 |issue=1 |year=2003 |pages=620–630 |url=http://astrobiology.ucla.edu/OTHER/SSO/SolarSysInt.pdf |doi=10.1086/375560 |bibcode=2003ApJ...592..620V |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128074218/http://astrobiology.ucla.edu/OTHER/SSO/SolarSysInt.pdf |archive-date=2007-11-28 |doi-access=free }}</ref> computer models that relate orbital variations to climate can predict future climate possibilities.
Work by [[André Berger|Berger]] and Loutre suggests that the current warm climate may last another 50,000 years.<ref name="Berger2002">{{cite journal |vauthors=Berger A, Loutre MF | title=Climate: An exceptionally long interglacial ahead? | journal=Science | volume=297 | issue=5585 | year=2002 | pages=1287–8 | doi=10.1126/science.1076120 | pmid=12193773| s2cid=128923481 }}</ref> The amount of heat trapping (greenhouse) gases being emitted into Earth's oceans and atmosphere may delay the next glacial period by an additional 50,000 years.<ref name="LiveScience2007">{{cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/1846-global-warming-good-news-ice-ages.html|title=Global Warming Good News: No More Ice Ages|year=2007|publisher=LiveScience}}</ref><ref name="PIK2016">{{cite web|url=https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/press-releases/human-made-climate-change-suppresses-the-next-ice-age|title=Human-made climate change suppresses the next ice age|year=2016|publisher=Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany}}</ref>
==See also==
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