Earth's climate has swung between hothouse and icehouse states over billions of years, driven by orbital mechanics, greenhouse gases, ocean currents, and volcanic eruptions. Paleoclimatology reconstructs these ancient atmospheres using proxies — ice cores, sediment layers, fossil chemistry — to understand the forces that shaped our planet and to contextualize modern climate change.
These simulations let you model Milankovitch orbital cycles, reconstruct CO2 from proxy data, visualize glacial-interglacial oscillations, explore thermohaline circulation patterns, and simulate volcanic winter cooling — all with interactive controls grounded in real paleoclimate data.