Earth's Climate History

Tour the climates of the past, Earth's greenhouse-icehouse modes, orbitally forced climates and climate extremes.

These resources refer to the Earth's past climate in terms of the geological time scale. Currently, there are only a few web presentations available on the Internet.

Geological Time Scale - International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS)

Climates by Period - Paleomap Project, Chris Scotese, University of Texas, Arlington

Climates Beyond - Climates TimeLine Tool, NOAA

Paleographic Atlas Project - University of Chicago

Snowball Earth - Explanation of the Snowball Earth, Scientific American

Cosmic Evolution - History of Big Bang to the Present