Sentences with phrase «planet frozen over»

The early stages of the Huronian, from 2.4 to 2.3 billion years ago, seem to have been particularly severe, with the entire planet frozen over in the first «snowball Earth».

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(Im) permafrost According to a 2007 global outlook from the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the frozen soil of the Tibetan plateau has warmed about 0.3 degree Celsius over the past 30 years — after the poles, faster than anywhere else on the planet.

Climate models suggest that our planet should have been frozen over at the time, yet there is geological evidence for liquid water aplenty — a disparity that planetary scientists have dubbed the faint young sun paradox.

Imagine a massive impact creating a wave of frozen ice and slush sloshing across the planet's surface, as though Jupiter had a few too many at a solar system pool party, tripped on Saturn's rings, and knocked the frozen margarita machine all over Mars» face.

«So you could say that by limiting the drawdown of CO2 by chemical weathering and sedimentation, plants saved the planet from freezing over,» says Caldeira.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

We understand why you can stand on the surface of the planet at rest until hell freezes over and gravity ain't gonna give you no heat!

The sets add over three hours of bonus footage, including a preview of Alastair Fothergill's Frozen Planet, the forthcoming documentary from the BBC.

Question # 2: If the planet is cooling, why would formerly frozen methane hydrate deposits be thawing and releasing all over the globe?