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The standard solar model proposes that the solar luminosity was 30% lower than the present level at 4.5 billion years ago (Ga). At low solar radiation, the climate model predicts that the Earth should have been completely covered by ice in the first 2 billion years, i.e. in the snowball Earth climate mode, when the atmospheric CO2 content was at the present level. However, snowball Earth condition...
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