How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climate - The Conversation
5/25/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 11 months ago
by Adriana Dutkiewicz, Andrew Merdith, Ben Mather, Christopher Gonzalez, Dietmar Müller, Sabin Zahirovic, Tobias Keller, Weronika Gorczyk
by Adriana Dutkiewicz, Andrew Merdith, Ben Mather, Christopher Gonzalez, Dietmar Müller, Sabin Zahirovic, Tobias Keller, Weronika Gorczyk
New modelling shows how tectonic plate movements, carbon-rich deep-sea sediment, and mountain weathering have regulated Earth’s climate.
For hundreds of millions of years, Earths climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO l… [+6145 chars]
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