[RussianConservative]

The study provides important backing for the climate models that scientists are using to predict the effects of the current rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide due to industrial emissions, Zachos said.

And think, industry of 55 million years ago so much cleaner then today. What about sea current changes? What about platonics and location of continents on effect of heating/cooling and again currents? Why not consider those questions?

[cogitator]

What about sea current changes? What about platonics and location of continents on effect of heating/cooling and again currents? Why not consider those questions?

These factors are considered in paleoclimate models.

[StopGlobalWhining]

Why not consider those questions?

Because this is not about science. It is a political crusade, the essnce of which is that the industrialized nations gained their power and wealth from inequitable consumption of earth's resources (notably the US with only 4.5% of earth's population using 25% of the planetary resources), so now it's time to pay back the third world.