Global warming 55 million years ago shifted ocean currents

AFP ^ | Jan 04 1:50 PM US/Eastern | AFP

[Ma3lst0rm]

An extraordinary burst of global warming that occurred around 55 million years ago dramatically reversed Earth's pattern of ocean currents, a finding that strengthens modern-day concern about climate change, a study says.

The big event, the Palaeocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), saw the planet's surface temperature rise by between five and eight degrees C (nine and 16.2 F) in a very short time, unleashing climate shifts that endured tens of thousands of years. ...

[Ma3lst0rm]

It is interesting how totally blind the authors of this article are to the implications that follow the discovery of 55 million year old global warming and climate change. I thought only man could screw up the world's climate not that it getting warmer is a bad thing. It is for some bad and others good as are most morally neutral issues. I think that the outcome of an overall more temperate world would be a far more positive change than negative.

[AzaleaCity5691]

Also important to note, there was more C02 in the air during the time of the dinosaurs than there is today.

[Little Pig]

Damn those SUV-driving dinosaurs!

[mtbopfuyn]

Dino farts.

[atomicpossum]

Found written on a cave wall:

"Bush's Fault!"

[DLfromthedesert]

I didn't realize George W. Bush was that old.

[Ma3lst0rm]

You are right and I would suppose highly educated scientists should know such things.

[KellyAdmirer]

The huge temperature rise may have occurred within just few thousand years

Oh, spare me....

[JimRed]

All Bush's fault; he didn't invent a time machine and go back and unilaterally sign a Kyoto-type protocol!

[Ma3lst0rm]

Hahahaha

[Mike Darancette]

An extraordinary burst of global warming that occurred around 55 million years ago dramatically reversed Earth's pattern of ocean currents, a finding that strengthens modern-day concern about climate change, a study says.

The land masses om earth were really in different places 55 mya

[bkwells]

But, but, but... man was not around... How can this be? I thought only man was responsible for global warming? There were no coal-fired polluting power plants 55 million years ago and no CFC's and no greenhouse gases!! /sarcasm

[xrp]

SUV driving dinosaurs? Dinosaurs were extinct by 65 million years ago, so they missed being the cause by about 10,000,000 years.

This obviously lends proof to the fact that Bush/Cheney and Halliburton have been using their time machine in all different eras of Earth's history to BAKE THE PLANET!

[WatchYourself]

I always love the "according to scientists" because they rarely agree on anything these days...

My speculation is just as good as theirs.

[Ma3lst0rm]

You read my mind!

[xcamel]

Note to self:

Doomed again.

[kingu]

Now if only those dinosaurs had followed the dictates of the Kyoto accord, this would never have happened.

[kajingawd]

"Global warming 55 million years ago shifted ocean currents"


...and, at that moment, Cape Breton was born...and it was cold.

[Ma3lst0rm]

You didn't? The proof is in the pictures. lol

[Little Pig]

Ok, ok, so damn those SUV-driving proto-lemurs.