A spurt of global warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse but how this happened remains worryingly unclear, scientists said on Monday.
Previous research into this period, called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, estimates the planet's surface temperature blasted upwards by between five and nine degrees in just a few thousand years.
[But they're certain what the temperature will be 100 years from now and the your SUV is responsible.]
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Mystery mechanism drove global warming 55 million years ago
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