Greenhouse Warming of the Archean Earth

I’m heading off to the UW Graduate Student Climate Conference bright and early tomorrow morning–provided that we make it from Cincinnati to Seattle.

I’ll be presenting a poster on the climate of the Archean Earth, 2.8 billion years ago. (This was also my master’s paper and was recently accepted with minor revisions for publication.) Despite the faint young Sun, the warm ice-free Archean could have maintained by the interaction of the biota and climate system and perhaps stabilized with a thin Titan-like organic haze.

Greenhouse Warming of the Archean Earth [PDF]