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Robin Wordsworth1, Raymond Pierrehumbert

  • 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. rwordsworth@uchicago.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 5, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

初期の地球は,二酸化炭素だけでなく,水素と窒素 (H2−N2−) の相互作用によって暖かくなっていたのかもしれません. この大気温暖化により,太陽光線が低いにもかかわらず,液体の水が存在し,初期の微生物による潜在的な冷却効果があった.

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