Tag: Paleoclimate
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Earth: 360 Million – 250 Years Ago
At the end of the last discussion, we established the hot, flourishing world of the Devonian period. During that time, we saw life completely transform. I also mentioned that there was an event that brought the world out of this hotter period, which allowed for yet another extinction event. During this post, we will start off…
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Earth’s Early Atmosphere
As I discussed in my previous post, the Earth’s climate is not only changing today, but it has changed for billions of years and will probably continue to do so long after us humans are gone. Generally, Earth’s climate history shows that dramatic swings in climate occur over the course of tens of thousands, to millions…
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Climate Change and Geologic Time: We Are Speeding the Process
-Imagine Life Five Years Ago… I know for me this seems like such a long-time ago. It may be the fact that I was preparing to enter my sophomore year in high school; a crucial point in trying to figure out what to do with my life. It may be the fact that back then,…