CO2 Increases Responsible for Only 40% of Ancient Warming - Could the World Get Even Hotter Than Models Predict?

photo: Alejandro Cañizares via flickr New research published in the journal Nature Geoscience shows that during Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum , a period about 55 million years ago when the planet warmed rapidly, only about 40% of that warming can be attributed to rises in CO2 in

the atmosphere . In short, “theoretical models cannot explain what we observe in the geological record,” report co-author G…

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CO2 Increases Responsible for Only 40% of Ancient Warming - Could the World Get Even Hotter Than Models Predict?



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