For all the religion-bashers, I truly fail to comprehend your hatred and frustration. The energy which you display in insulting the faithful is worthy of a better cause. As someone else pointed out, “true believers know that religion and science do not clash”.

“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go” Galileo Galilei

Hysterically trying to answer every mystery of the earth’s climate with “GREENHOUSE GASES! GRENNHOUSE GASSES!” in contravention of the evidence only stands in the way of scientific progress and discovery.

We know now that around the onset of Snowball Earth, the oxygen concentration in the atmosphere was not greater than around 2 ppm http://www.pnas.org/content/102/32/11131.full). We also know that the oxygen in the ocean was creating catastrophic changes in its chemistry. No reasonable investigator should be fixated on the 2 ppm of oxygen in the atmosphere, where the oxygen in the ocean is where all the action is going on. Even if you assume that the oxygen levels were sufficient to bring down methane levels faster than they could be sustained, it would take a destruction of 90% of the total greenhouse gas (most of which is now and probably was then water vapor, which oxygen is not going to destroy) to equal the climatic effect of a mere 10% change in the ocean albedo. And the action was going on IN THE FREAKING OCEAN.

All three major global glaciations happened during the three massive oxygen spikes. These were also the times of deposition of massive amounts of Banded Iron Formations (again an ocean process mediated by oxygen). The last two of these global glaciations only happened 75 million years apart, which by itself should eliminate the methane destruction theory. 75 million years is not nearly enough time for enough methane to accumulate again to suffer another “catastrophic collapse” from the generation of more oxygen.

Here is a good graphic of the three major global glaciations (though we now know that the atmospheric oxygen estimates in the chart for the paleoproterozoic are too high): http://www.snowballearth.org/slides/Ch1-3.gif

wake up will you,you are going to die and religion will disapear as humans evolve,and people become better educated ,yes evolution will take care of religion believe me,how can you say this is god`s work when it clearly states in your bible that god created adam and eve???!! what planet are you people on? stop and think about what you are saying just for once in your life…..you religious people really hack me off,your all in denial. WAKE UP!!

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wake up will you,you are going to die and religion will disapear as humans evolve,and people become better educated ,yes evolution will take care of religion believe me,how can you say this is god`s work when it clearly states in your bible that god created adam and eve???!! what planet are you people on? stop and think about what you are saying just for once in your life…..you religious people really hack me off,your all in denial. WAKE UP!!