New mechanism of past global warming? Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to global warming events
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 15:31
in Earth & Climate
Climate scientists have proposed a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon that fed a series of extreme warming events about 55 million years ago, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, and a sequence of similar, smaller warming events afterward.