8 Global Warming and its possible impacts on Essex Figure 1 A. Variation in the eccentricity, obliquity and precessional indices for the last 0.8 million years and their calculated cumulative impact. B. Variation in the O61" signal from deep sea cores, for comparison with the calculated cumulative impact. (Derived from Lowe and Walker, 1997) Essex Naturalist (New Series) 17 (2000)