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So if this mechanism exists, wouldn't that point to temperatures rising very fast in the past as well?
by soperj 7y ago
So if this mechanism exists, wouldn't that point to temperatures rising very fast in the past as well?
- sulam 7y agoIn fact there are such periods, although the precision in the geologic record doesn’t allow us to quantify just what timeframe “fast” operated over, except “within 20K years”. Google PETM if you want to see more.
- ngold 7y agoMassive frozen bubbles of methane just waiting for the sea to get warm enough, then dumping gigatonnes of methane in the air is one theory about past climate events.