[Omega Man II]

Bush and his oil buddies from Haliburton took a time machine back in time and did this!

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[kinoxi]

It was him and Cheney. Their secret underground lair was immune of course.

[theDentist]

(Bush's fault?)

Well, as a number of bushs burned as a result, yes, it likely is Bushs fault.

[popdonnelly]

Too bad Al Gore wasn’t alive then to stop it.

[Spunky]

Al Gore couldn’t blame it on the Humans back then.

[lilylangtree]

Question: In my college geology class, I remember studying where scientists documented something to do with the rotation of the earth changes periodically. I can’t remember whether it’s the magnetism at the poles or what but something changes. Does any freeper remember studying something like this too? And if so, would something like this impact the climate?

[Slings and Arrows]

Bush's fault?

Let's be realistic.

Strom Thurmond's fault.

[GeoPie]

I can’t stand it when people portrait “Mother Earth” as being so fragile. I mean, hello. Mother nature will kick your a@!. I mean, she’ll be here long after us!

[JewishRighter]

Don’t be concerned. The volcano purchased appropriate carbon credits and, therefore, no harm was done to the environment, polar bears, penguins or liberals.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Not exactly a spike.

[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?

[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?

[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.