Hot Springs National Park is located about an hour southwest of Little Rock in the folded Ouachita Mountains of central Arkansas. It is the second smallest national park in the United States at just under nine square miles.

A recent article published by Hakai Magazine claims to reveal secrets of an ancient inland sea that existed east of the Andes Mountains,¹ but it really just offers poor explanations for an already murky evolutionary tale and leaves the reader wondering.

Most of us have heard about the steady increase in CO₂ in the earth’s atmosphere, sometimes called the Keeling Curve.¹ Many have tied this current upswing to climate change, and many have blamed the burning of fossil fuels for this increase. But is it that simple?