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Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.

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"Policymakers and the public remain largely unaware of the risks posed by what would effectively be a point-of-no-return transition." The post Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say ...

Earth's climate has varied widely over its history so why do a few degrees concern us now? If you take a look at global temperature graphs that span millions or billions of years, you can see that our ...