Notable Climate Events in Earth History
See also: List of periods and events in climate history, Geologic time scale, and History of EarthKnowledge of precise climatic events decreases as the record goes further back in time. Some notable climate events:
- Faint young Sun paradox (start)
- Huronian glaciation (~2400Mya Earth completely covered in ice probably due to Great Oxygenation Event)
- Later Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth (~600Mya, Precursor to the Cambrian Explosion)
- Andean-Saharan glaciation (~450Mya)
- Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse (~300Mya)
- Permian-Triassic extinction event (251.4Mya)
- Oceanic Anoxic Events (~120Mya, 93Mya, and others)
- Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (66Mya)
- Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (Paleocene-Eocene, 55Mya)
- Younger Dryas/The Big Freeze (~11Kya)
- Holocene climatic optimum (~7-3Kya)
- Climate changes of 535-536 (535-536 AD)
- Medieval warm period (900-1300)
- Little ice age (1300-1800)
- Year Without a Summer (1816)
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