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Faint young Sun paradox - Wikipedia

The faint young Sun paradox or faint young Sun problem describes the apparent contradiction between observations of liquid water early in Earth's history ...

GSA Today - The Faint Young Sun Problem Revisited

This is known as the “faint young Sun problem.” One resolution to the problem is that the Sun was more massive and luminous in its youth before blowing off mass ...

A Solution to the Faint Young Sun Paradox | MIT Technology Review

This problem, known as the faint young Sun paradox, has troubled astronomers since the 1970s, when it was pointed out by Carl Sagan and friends.

A Fix for the "Faint Young Sun" - Sky & Telescope

Earth teemed with primitive life more 3½ billion years ago, at a time when the young Sun was too faint to keep our planet from freezing over.

Faint Young Sun - Science News

Scientists call this conundrum the “faint young sun paradox.” Billions of years ago, a dimmer sun shone down on a young Earth. But instead of a ...

Is the faint young sun paradox solved?

What is the faint young sun paradox? ... It was discovered about 40 years ago that in the evolutionary origin of the solar system the sun would ...

Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth

The Faint Young Star Paradox: Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth · Artist concept of our sun 4 billion years ago. Credit: NASA/GSFC/.

Resolution of the Faint Young Sun Paradox via the Expanding Earth ...

We present a plausible solution to the now forty seven year old paleoclimatology riddle of the so-called Faint Young Sun Paradox via the ...

Resolving Faint Sun Paradoxes, Part 3 - Reasons to Believe

The new model does place a new constraint on origin-of-life models. A much-brighter young Sun is a Sun with more dramatic flaring activity, ...

Earth Had 70% CO2 In The Past - Solving Faint Young Sun Paradox

... resolution to the so called Faint Young Sun Paradox. Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/4/eaay4644 Image Credit: James Thew ...

Faint Sun, Paradox, Solutions - Climate change - Britannica

The solution to this “faint young Sun paradox” appears to lie in the presence of unusually high concentrations of greenhouse gases at the time, particularly ...

(PDF) Resolution of the Faint Young Sun Paradox via the Expanding ...

by less continental area and the 'lack of biologically induced cloud condensation nuclei'. ... etration hence a warmer young Earth (with a ...

Young Faint Sun Paradox—A New Solution | Answers in Genesis

A new resolution to the young faint sun paradox is presented and accepted as the definitive answer, only to have problems soon develop that ...

Toward a solution to the early faint Sun paradox: A lower cosmic ray ...

Under this assumption, the stronger wind of the young Sun had a warming effect. This is because the stronger wind necessarily lowered the ...

Clouds and the Faint Young Sun Paradox - CP

recent papers have proposed cloud-based resolutions to the FYSP. Rondanelli and Lindzen (2010) focus on increasing the warming effect of high clouds, finding ...

A simple resolution to the 'faint young sun' paradox?

A faster rotating early-Earth may have compensated for reduced Sun output Guest post submitted by Ian Schumacher The 'faint young sun' ...

Clouds and the Faint Young Sun Paradox

Some recent pa- pers have proposed cloud-based resolutions to the FYSP. Rondanelli and Lindzen (2010) focus on increasing the warming effect of high clouds, ...

The Early Faint Sun Paradox: Organic Shielding of Ultraviolet-Labile ...

This early faint sun paradox is only a paradox if we insist on holdingA, a, ɛ, and greenhouse warming constant over time. Were A = 0.3 at 4 Ga, as it is today,T ...

Faint young Sun paradox remains - Nature

Finally, even if we were to assume a simple thermodynamic control ... Resolution of the 'faint young Sun paradox' ... No climate paradox under the faint early Sun.

(PDF) The faint young Sun problem - ResearchGate

For the early Earth, models of stellar evolution predict a solar energy input to the climate system which is about 25% lower than today. This would result in a ...