Birth of an Ice Sheet
Today I think I'll go
Way back to the E-O
(The climate of the former
Was, they say, much warmer).
Then -- get out your skis!
Earth cooled a few degrees.
Antarctic real estate ...
It met an icy fate!
What caused this growth of ice?
Would greenhouse change suffice?
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6060/1261
Friday, December 2, 2011
Photo: Elizabeth Pierce