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...





