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Schatten & Endal 1982
Schatten, K.H. and Endal, A.S. (1982). The faint young sun–climate paradox: volcanic influences. Geophysical Research Letters 9: doi: 10.1029/GL009i012p01309. issn: 0094-8276.

It has been suggested that the early earth may have frozen over as a result of a fainter early sun (see Ulrich, 1975). If this had happened, climate models suggest the earth would have remained frozen through the present epoch and into the distant future. We suggest that volcanic influences could allow a passage from the frozen branch into the unfrozen branch of climate models should conditions on earth be suitable for the latter climate change. A broad equatorial belt of volcanic ash is one scenario which would allow a transfer from the frozen earth state into the unfrozen one.

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