Thawing Permafrost 50 Million Years Ago Led to Global Warm Events
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
In a new study reported in Nature, climate scientist Rob DeConto and colleagues propose a new mechanism, changes in the Earth's tilt and orbit, to explain the source of carbon that fed extreme warming events about 55 million years ago and a sequence of similar, smaller warming events afterward.