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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 10 December 2012 06:30:58AM *  2 points [-]

The lag is a phenomenon of the ice age cycle, which is caused by orbital shifts but amplified by emission or absorption of carbon dioxide by the ocean. It takes the ocean about a thousand years to respond to changed atmospheric temperature.