How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climate
By
Dietmar Müller,
Adriana Dutkiewicz,
Andrew Merdith,
Ben Mather,
Christopher Gonzalez,
Sabin Zahirovic,
Tobias Keller,
Weronika Gorczyk
published
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.