Sentences with phrase «survived snowball earth»

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However, tell me what animal species survived «snowball Earth» (if in fact it ever happened), and just what «luck» enabled them to do it?

If CO2 is responsible for earth not being a snowball, and 90 % of the time the earth is in an ice age, shouldn't we make sure enough CO2 survives the end of the Holocene by pumping even more of it into the atmosphere?

And it has survived near total extinction events where only subterranean bacteria persisted, snowball earth where no ground was left exposed, only thick icesheets.

«Studying Snowball Earth glaciations can tell us just how bad it can get, in which case life as we know it would probably not survive,» says geologist Linda Sohl of Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research and NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.