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To make a ‘Snowball Earth,’ sci-fi moves fast. Geology is far slower


The Day After Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, Snowball Earth: Such end-of-days visions of a frozen Earth are fantastical … but can contain a snowflake of truth.

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