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.

[Kay Ludlow]

Hmmm. In the article, they attribute the previous warming to underwater volcanic activity. Seems to me I read recently about how there's been a significant increase in underwater volcanic activity the last couple decades. Coincidence???

[Ma3lst0rm]

Too Right! This was just before the KT boundary.

[xcamel]

Cenozoic map:

[softwarecreator]

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!

More grounds for impeachment!  Someone better call the NY Times and tell them to get the front page ready for this!  Might as well get ready for DU to start trumpeting this cause ... and CBS, and CNN and MSNBC ....

[microgood]

Noone knows what the temperature and currents were 55 million years ago. Some do pretend to know, however.

[Ma3lst0rm]

Exactly, especially given the historical fact of how wrong or incomplete so much of "established scientific thought" has been found to be.

[Ma3lst0rm]

Don't give them any ideas. :-)

[DLfromthedesert]

LOL... VERY clever

[Ma3lst0rm]

That is the problem with history it is can not be repeated in an experiment. All history is dependent on an accurate interpretation of the leavings of time. What is certain about history, especially when millions of years is involved, is that what we know will always be a small fraction of the reality of what happened.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[Designed]

I can't help but wonder how many hundreds of unfounded assumptions the researchers plugged into their calculations to come up with this astounding finding. I mean, they don't even know what the average temperature was a thousand years ago!

[Drammach]

Interesting show on the Little Ice Age on History Channel tonight..

They seem to be doing a pretty straight up presentation, none of that weird "mankind is destroying the planet" stuff..
If you're not already watching, you may be able to catch a second showing later tonight, or TIVO it or something..

[SunkenCiv]

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[DavemeisterP]

More global warming here and now will lead to the melting of the ice in Greenland and on Antactica.The oceans will raise by how much? Around 325ft.? Something like that? We NEED an Ice Age to keep Austin, TX on the map and Waco from being beachfront again.