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Hot climate could shut down plate tectonics

May 12, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 35 vote(s) | User comments: 11

A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet's crust to become locked in place.


Warming climate is changing life on global scale, says new study

May 14, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 28 vote(s) | User comments: 5

A vast array of physical and biological systems across the earth are being affected by warming temperatures caused by humans, says a new analysis of information not previously assembled all in one spot. The ...


Studies confirm greenhouse mechanisms even further into past

May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s) | User comments: 4

The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link ...