footnote: Global Warming & Snowball Earth

Just today I have been watching LIFE ON OUR PLANET, a new documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman I surveys the origins and progression of life on Earth. It covers in far more detail, graced with Freeman’s compelling voice, some of the very same geologic history I presented in my essay here. I am tickled by …

Global Warming and Snowball Earth

Ironically, the warming of the Earth bringing about melting of polar ice–which decreases the salinity of polar waters thereby slowing and possibly even halting the North Atlantic Conveyer current which brings the warm Gulf of Mexico waters up past the British Isles–sets up the British Isles for winters lasting through the year, for years, as …