This is another consensus theory that is defended to the death. At http://phys.org/print330157486.html … what kick started Plate Tectonics? Apparently the consensus theory has no beginning – does it have an ending. Never mind, all is well, another computer simulation puts it all back to what was going on 3 billion years ago.
Meanwhile, William Thompson sent a link to another piece of wishful thinking – go to www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/09/16/bristol-overboard-climate-change/…