ESS101C
Prof. Jin-Yi Yu
Tectonic-Scale Climate Change
q
The faint young Sun paradox
and its possible explanation.
q
Why was Earth ice-free even
at the poles 100 Myr ago (the
Mesozoic Era)?
q
What caused Earth’s climate
to cool over the last 55 Myr
(the Cenozoic Era)?
Ice-free Earth
(from
Earth’s Climate: Past and Future
)