Category Archives: climate science

Oman’s view of the Snowball Earth

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago – but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?
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Categories: climate science, deep time, fieldwork, geology, outcrops, palaeomagic, past worlds, Proterozoic

Carbon capture and storage: where should it go?

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

If we’re going to sequester carbon, is it better to do it under land or under the ocean? A grad student examines the pros and cons of each, in this guest blog post.
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Categories: climate science, hydrology

Coal and the fossil record of climate change in the Canadian High Arctic

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Spectacular fossilized forests in the Canadian High Arctic provide clues to life on a warmer earth. Unless we mine their coal in order to heat our planet back to the Eocene.
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