Understanding the Climate of Ancient Earth

The Earth has been around for a long time. Earth’s climate history is called its paleoclimate, where “paleo” means old or ancient. In this article, we explain how studying paleoclimate helps us understand and why the (and life on it) evolved over Scientists can study fossils, chemicals, minerals preserved in ice ancient rocks. Using information, as well computer models of past climate, scientists figure out changes going back millions years. Understanding changing now, it might further change future.