Italian cave makes sense of the change in Earth’s ice age rhythm

About a million years ago, ice ages got much longer—what changed?

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But rather than look at two overlapping piles of spaghetti, they mixed the effects of tilt and precession into a single curve, laying that up against the full climate record.

Assuming (and please correct me if I'm wrong) that the statement above implies that there was some mingling of data; isn't that what gets all of the deniers screaming "See, it's a HOAX!...the data was cherry picked"?
Can we please get more details about how they were mixed and why it was OK to do so in this instance?


P. S. (When in fact typically it's the deniers doing the fruit harvesting).

Presenting the data in terms for the lowest common denominator not only mutes some of the impact of the findings, it's playing to their game. These people have not approached climate research from a reasonable position. Expecting simplified information to change the minds of the ideologically entrenched is a disservice to the research. These folks are locked in and no new data aside from a palm tree sprouting in their yard in MN (which they would contort into a good thing) will change their view. They aren't interested in the science. They're worried about the costs, full stop