A coup for proponents? For reasons that are still unclear?
The first photosynthesizing organisms burned up all the carbon dioxide, and with no greenhouse effect at all, and ice sheets reflecting even more sunlight as they spread, the world cooled uncontrollably until the whole thing was frozen. What’s unclear is how surface-dwelling microscopic life managed to survive the event at all until volcanic activity gradually threw enough carbon back into the atmosphere that it slowly warmed back up after 100 million years, and reached a new equilibrium.
Geological history is absolutely wild. I am not a science-ologist but I thought that all of the above was settled science at this point, and this discovery was just a nice confirmation about it.
A coup for proponents? For reasons that are still unclear?
The first photosynthesizing organisms burned up all the carbon dioxide, and with no greenhouse effect at all, and ice sheets reflecting even more sunlight as they spread, the world cooled uncontrollably until the whole thing was frozen. What’s unclear is how surface-dwelling microscopic life managed to survive the event at all until volcanic activity gradually threw enough carbon back into the atmosphere that it slowly warmed back up after 100 million years, and reached a new equilibrium.
Geological history is absolutely wild. I am not a science-ologist but I thought that all of the above was settled science at this point, and this discovery was just a nice confirmation about it.