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Greenhouse and icehouse Earth — Wikipedia (en)

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Throughout Earth's climate history (Paleoclimate) its climate has fluctuated between two primary states: greenhouse and icehouse Earth. Both climate states last for millions of years and should not be confused with the much smaller glacial and interglacial periods, which occur as alternating phases within an icehouse period (known as an ice age) and tend to last less than one million years. There are several icehouse periods in Earth's climate history, namely the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan (also known as Early Paleozoic), Late Paleozoic, Cretaceous, and Late Cenozoic glaciations. The main factors involved in changes of the paleoclimate are believed to be the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and, less importantly, methane (CH4), changes in Earth's orbit, long-term changes in the solar constant, and oceanic and orogenic changes from tectonic plate dynamics. Greenhouse and icehouse periods have played key roles in the evolution of life on Earth by directly and indirectly forcing biotic adaptation and turnover at various spatial scales across time.

Tema degli esploratori: terra, clima ed energia (deposito sistematico; ricerca «carbon cycle»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Greenhouse and icehouse Earth» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth
Wikidata Q5604174 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5604174
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_and_icehouse_Earth?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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