When continents break it gets warm on Earth

[rangerrebew]

When continents break it gets warm on Earth
Rift zones released large amounts of CO2 from depth, which influenced global climate change

Date:
    November 13, 2017
Source:
    GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre
Summary:
    The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere determines whether the Earth is in greenhouse or ice age state. Before humans began to have an impact on the amount of CO2 in the air, it depended solely on the interplay of geological and biological processes, the global carbon cycle. This study shows that the break-up of continents - also known as rifting -- contributed significantly to higher CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
Share:

FULL STORY

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171113123725.htm

[Joe Wooten]

One main cause of the periodic ice ages we have now happened when North and South America joined together, There used to be an equatorial wamr water current that kept the planet warmer, but it was shut off when the volcanoes of central America joined the continents together.