Post by massiveshibe on Oct 16, 2024 11:30:46 GMT -5
After days of working on this graph, I finally finished it. I attempted to make it as accurate as possible but there are probably quite a few errors.
Red means Greenhouse periods, when the Earth did not have permanent ice, whilst blue means Icehouse periods with ice sheets, like we have in the present. In the past, polar ice sheets required colder global temperatures to form because the Earth had way less dry landmasses than today, which means the temperatures between the equator and the poles to not vary as much as they do today, making polar regions much warmer, that's why 1 billion years ago there were no ice sheets despite the global temperature being 3 degrees lower than today.
Y axis is the temperature in degrees Celsius, X axis is time in years.
K = Thousand years (1 times 10 to the power of 3)
M = Million years (1 times 10 to the power of 6)
