Turns Out Earth's Temperature Timeline Is Wrong
Long-held beliefs about our planet's hot history face a scientific upheaval.
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Long-held beliefs about our planet's hot history face a scientific upheaval.
New research which is likely to change our ideas about Earth’s climate history have been published by a New Zealand research team in the journal Science.
Living in a time of polar ice caps means the “greenhouse” model may be underestimating of climate change.
According to a new study, there was an accelerated global climate change on ice-capped Earth about 304 million years ago, similar to the present.
A new study describes a period of rapid global climate change in an ice-capped world much like the present — but 304 million years ago. Within about 300,000 years, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels doubled, oceans became anoxic, and biodiversity dropped on land and at sea.