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Changes in Earth’s orbit may have triggered ancient warming event

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Changes in Earth’s orbit may have triggered ancient warming event

[ad_1] A 6,000-year onset, coupled with estimates that 10,000 gigatons of carbon were injected into the atmosphere as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide or methane. Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analogue for modern climate change, according to an international team of scientists. "The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum is the closest thing we have in the geologic record to anything like what we're experiencing now and may experience in the future with climate change," said Lee Kump, professor of geosciences at Penn State. "There has been a lot of interest in better resolving that history, and our work addresses important questions about what triggered the event ...

Exclusive Satellite Images Show Near Real-Time Methane Emissions

[ad_1] During COP27 we’re posting high-resolution images of a methane clouds to highlight how common — and damaging — releases of the potent greenhouse gas are. All through COP27, Bloomberg Green will exclusively publish new satellite images of methane releases around the world, in collaboration with emissions monitoring firm GHGSat Inc. Scientists say reducing the emissions of methane, which has 84 times the warming power of carbon dioxide during its first two decades in the atmosphere, is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to cool the planet. Near Kirtland, New Mexico, USA, Nov. 6, 1:48 pm local time A GHGSat satellite observed methane emissions near a coal mine Sunday afternoon in New Mexico that the emissions monitoring firm said was coming from a mine vent. The company est...

Life on Mars killed off by Martians? Shocking study says so

[ad_1] A new study has revealed that the early life on Mars might have killed itself off. Know how the Martians caused their own end. For years, the word ‘Martian' has been a part of our vocabulary. The word simply means forms of life on the planet Mars. But the mainstream nature of the word, unlike Venutian (belonging to Venus) or Mercurian (belonging to Mercury) highlights how people on Earth have always believed in the possibility that life exists on Mars. And while NASA has not found any evidence of life existing at present, it has found evidence for microbial life on Mars that existed millions of years ago. And as scientists try to find out more about the life that existed on Mars, a new study has made a shocking claim. It says that the life of Mars was ended by the first organis...