How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climate
- Written by: Dietmar Müller, Professor of Geophysics, University of Sydney
For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ levels to their highest in 2 million years – overtaking natural emissions – mostly by burning fossil fuels, causing...












