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PREHISTORIC GREENHOUSE [1 record]

Record 1 2011-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Climate Change
CONT

From four to eight times the present amount of carbon dioxide was needed to match the Cretaceous polar temperatures estimated by paleontologists and geochemists. Such results have convinced us that climatic changes in the geologic past have been caused largely by changes in the atmospheric carbon dioxide content. This "paleogreenhouse" view has been forcefully championed by Alfred G. Fischer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Changements climatiques
DEF

Effet de serre caractéristique des temps géologiques anciens.

OBS

Pour désigner l'effet de serre qui existait aux temps historiques ou dans un passé relativement récent (avant l'ère industrielle, par exemple), c'est généralement à l'expression "effet de serre du passé" qu'on a recours.

OBS

Paléoclimatique: relatif à un paléoclimat.

OBS

Paléoclimat: climat des temps géologiques.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cambio climático
CONT

El efecto invernadero recalienta el planeta Tierra desde la época de los dinosaurios, según una investigación de la universidad británica Bristol publicada hoy en la revista científica Nature. [...] El descubrimiento es muy importante ya que contradice la tesis sostenida por el mundo científico por la que el efecto invernadero prehistórico recalentó los polos y enfrió los trópicos [...]

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