Volcanic eruptions caused global temperature spike 55 million years ago (Bush's fault?)

LA Times ^

[lilylangtree]

Thanks for the info.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

A brief comment on the LA Times writeup.
Point 1: Notice that there has been a subtle or not no subtle change where some researchers are ascribing ancient warmings to the influence of ancient CO2 emissions. Keep in mind that no one has yet shown that the CO2 increase occurred before the warming. The warming could have occurred, and it caused the CO2 increase.

Point 2: Notice in recent times that large volcanic eruptions have caused global cooling. Why not also in the past?

[TYVets]

What is happening at the LA Times?

No mention that global warming was caused by SUV's and George Bush !

[Publius6961]

...It took about 200,000 years for the atmospheric carbon to be transferred to the deep ocean, allowing the planet to cool.

I can't believe that serious so-called scientists continue to repeat an unsupported guess!

All leading edge studies confirm that warming preceeds increased CO2 concentrations.

On the other hand, why aren't present day volcanic influences never mentioned by the hysterical Gorons?

[buffyt]

Jeepers President Bush is OLD, to have caused this 55 million years ago! </sarcasm off>

[magellan]

This seems like propaganda. Convince the masses CO2 is the enemy, by pointing to a natural event in the past.

The global warming zealots have been searching, begging for a carbon-related fall guy for the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. First it was the "Oceanic Methane Belch". Now it is mass, chain-reaction volcanoes and lava burning peat bogs.

The evidence shows an 800 year lag between rising temperatures and CO2 increases.

But the Maunder Minimum period of low solar activity coincides with the Little Ice Age.

I think there is more to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum than volcanoes.