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From reading Chapter 13 of the Essentials of Meteriology and many website that went over the past climate and how it is important to the world to know about it. Of course past climate impacted and still impact what happens to the weather and tempreratures in the atmosphere. Scientists use past climate changes and temperatures to know what will happen in the future and why something happens in the present too.
Past climate existed with the most amount of carbon dioxide and isolation from the sun, which was very high because of the origin of the earth. Past climate had a big variation of temperatures fluctuations. The past warmer phases have been the result of the greenhouse gases, which mainly CO2 and methane. Which
the gases were made with smaller portions that created the global climate to get colder. Past climate changes were also caused by the fluctuations of the greenhouse gases. Back then people affected the changing of climates a lot and still do to this day. The changes of the rate of geomorphic process reduced the level of CO2 and like i said before it made the earth cooler.
About 18,000 years ago the earth was covered with a cold spell that had alphine glaciers and huge ice sheets. That covered a lot of river valleys and mountains. They covered a lot of North America and Europe. The glaciers grew more than 10 times the past 2.5 millions years. This knowledge is used to measure past, present, and future climate changes. Many years ago in the past the earth was a lot warmer then it is right now but during those hot years there were years of coldness that were called the Ice Age. The Mid-Holocene maximum was when there was the warm spell that helped the development of many plants and that helped any of the animals and people think that there won't be a cold spell but of course after some years they do occur. Scientists say that glacier periods occur every about 400 million year. These periods are called the interglacier periods. Knowing past climate is great for knowing what happened in the past, and what can happen in future. That helps with understanding temperatures of the atmoshphere.