Something other than methane was keeping early Earth warm
The most certain thing we know about early Earth is that we don’t know much about it. From ScienceDaily: For at least a billion years of the distant past, planet Earth should have been frozen over but wasn’t. Scientists thought they knew why, but a new modeling study has fired the lead actor in that long-accepted scenario. It’s been assumed that Earth depended on methane to stay warm for billions of years. Oxygen was building up and was thought to destroy the methane. The new study argues that sulfate was a much bigger menace to methane. Sulfate wasn’t a factor until oxygen appeared in the atmosphere and triggered oxidative weathering of rocks on land. The breakdown of minerals such as Read More ›