User blog comment:David Rain/ATL idea. Odd, but Cool./@comment-3967693-20120609153144/@comment-5018798-20120610113203

Ah. Bother. Shame about the ice caps.

Surely tropics would be okay though as they have no reason to freeze over? Life might evolve there. Habitable land would be smaller, and prehaps life would deal with it by evolving more extremophiles, probably mostly psychrophiles. Also if you look at Earths history there have been periods of the phenomenon known as a Greenhouse Earth, during which life would flourish, retrating to the tropics during the Icehouse side of the equation.

Life may not be as advanced, but I believe it would exist.

PLEASE NOTE: I am not a climate change denier. David Rain (Sometimes...)