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Throughout its history, Earth has continuously fluctuated between greenhouse and icehouse; an icehouse phase known as Snowball Earth was the most extreme period of cold the planet ever witnessed, with ice encasing Earth from the poles to the equator.
Throughout its history, Earth has continuously fluctuated between greenhouse and icehouse; an icehouse phase known as Snowball Earth was the most extreme period of cold the planet ever witnessed, with ice encasing Earth from the poles to the equator.
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