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earth's climate history  

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  • Climate is not a static set of weather conditions, constant over eons; rather it varies, sometimes in dramatic ways, over time. The hot climate of the newly formed Earth gave way to glaciers in a little more than a billion years, an immense time by human reckoning, but not nearly so long by geological standards. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change; Earth's Climate History]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-WBFWRFWH-6

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