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If anyone is interested in an antecedent to our current climate change situation, BBC's In Our Time did an excellent deep-dive into the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
by h0l0cube 5y ago
If anyone is interested in an antecedent to our current climate change situation, BBC's In Our Time did an excellent deep-dive into the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hpmmf https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hpmmf
The kind of carbon ejection and correlated temperature change we're seeing today hasn't really been seen since the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. That atmospheric event happened over the course of 50_000 years, we're looking to replicate it in a matter of 100s of years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum#Comparison_with_today's_climate_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...