Sunday, April 19, 2015

Earth News: Yesterday's Edition

Carbon dioxide drastically affected Earth's climate in the distant past.
A new study shows Earth’s temperature plunged to 40 degrees below zero – in Florida, Egypt and other lands near the planet’s supposedly warmer equatorial regions during a radical climate shift known as 'Snowball Earth.'
The jostling of the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn in the solar system’s early days may have delivered a Mercury-type building block to baby Earth, providing the planet with the chemistry to heat its convecting, liquid metal core to this day

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