How Plate Tectonics, Mountains, and Deep-Sea Sediments Have Maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' Climate - Singularity Hub

As soon as mountains form, they start being eroded. Rainwater containing CO₂ reacts with a range of mountain rocks, breaking them down.

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… [+5403 chars]

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