Tag: 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 ...