This article is about the obsolete theory of global cooling. For the conjecture positing an overall cooling of the Earth and perhaps the commencement of glaciation or even an ice age, see Global cooling.
Before the concept of plate tectonics, global cooling was a geophysical theory by James Dwight Dana, also referred to as the contracting earth theory. It suggested that the Earth had been in a molten state, and features such as mountains formed as it cooled and shrank.[1] As the interior of the Earth cooled and shrank, the rigid crust would have to shrink and crumple. The crumpling could produce features such as mountain ranges.
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Before the concept of plate tectonics, globalcooling was a geophysical theory by James Dwight Dana, also referred to as the contracting earth theory....
Globalcooling was a conjecture, especially during the 1970s, of imminent cooling of the Earth culminating in a period of extensive glaciation, due to...
Reveal Marked Increase in Earth's Heating Rate". Geophysical Research Letters. 48 (13). American Geophysical Union (AGU). e2021GL093047. Bibcode:2021GeoRL...
usual during this period. As aerosols have a cooling effect, and global dimming has masked the extent of global warming experienced to date, with the most...
indicated stronger cooling than warming between 1966 and 2000, and found that McMurdo Dry Valleys in East Antarctica had experienced cooling of 0.7 °C per...
significant change of Earth's radius during the last 620 million years. Geophysicalglobalcooling - a converse hypothesis Category:Plate tectonics Timeline of the...
the records, changes in global climate are rapid and widespread. Warming phase only needs simple steps, however, the cooling process requires more prerequisites...
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other factors caused the cooling is debated. The Spörer Minimum between 1460 and 1550 was matched to a significant cooling period. A 2012 paper instead...
and that the global temperature series showed cooling encouraged Reid Bryson and some others to warn of the possibility of severe cooling. The questions...
modification) to reduce global warming. This would introduce aerosols into the stratosphere to create a cooling effect via global dimming and increased...
that many scientific organizations such as the American Geophysical Union, the Canadian Geophysical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics...
Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale...
million years. Depth is better explained by a cooling lithosphere plate model rather than the cooling mantle half-space. The plate has a constant temperature...
trapping capacity, resulting in a cooling effect on Earth's climate. This could be a potential tool to reduce anthropogenic global warming. Cirrus cloud thinning...
10% likelihood of large (~0.6 °C (1.1 °F)) cooling occurring by 2000, a 25% likelihood of smaller cooling around 0.15 °C (0.27 °F), a 30% likelihood of...
bright and reflective of the Sun, which causes cooling. Clouds at low altitudes have a stronger cooling effect, and those at high altitudes have a stronger...
are particularly salty. North Atlantic is also an already cool region, and evaporative cooling reduces water temperature even further. Thus, this water...
(another greenhouse gas) and calculated the additional cooling effect. He also realized the cooling would increase snow and ice cover at high latitudes,...
2017 pointed out that recent changes in cooling of the subpolar gyre, warm temperatures in the subtropics and cool anomalies over the tropics, increased...
significant rise in stratospheric sulfur aerosols, leading to a period of globalcooling analogous to the Year Without a Summer in 1816. Until the 1990s, climatologists...
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properties on U.S. summer weather prediction". Journal of Geophysical Research. 101 (D3). American Geophysical Union: 7419. Bibcode:1996JGR...101.7419X. CiteSeerX 10...
warming from greenhouse gases and cooling from SRM would operate differently across latitudes and seasons, a world where global warming would be offset by SRM...
the climate cooling. This is because eruption size does not correlate with the amount of SO2 emitted. It has been proposed that the cooling effects of...
plants, the heating and cooling loads of buildings, climate modeling and weather forecasting, passive daytime radiative cooling applications, and space...
force of the globalcooling among the other natural factors, i.e. the sunspot activities by orbital forcing and greenhouse gas. The Past Global Change (PAGES)...
controversial stance on the global warming debate distract from the story. The book is thought to have popularised the Antarctica cooling controversy. Peter Evans...
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