• DOI:10.1029/2011RG000375
Corpus ID: 119248267

The faint young Sun problem

@article{Feulner2012TheFY,
  title={The faint young Sun problem},
  author={G. Feulner},
  journal={arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics},
  year={2012}
}

• G. Feulner
• Published 2012
• Geology, Physics, Environmental Science
• arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

For more than four decades, scientists have been trying to find an answer to one of the most fundamental questions in paleoclimatology, the `faint young Sun problem'. For the early Earth, models of stellar evolution predict a solar energy input to the climate system which is about 25% lower than today. This would result in a completely frozen world over the first two billion years in the history of our planet, if all other parameters controlling Earth's climate had been the same. Yet there is… Expand

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