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Global warming 55 million years ago shifted ocean currents
AFP ^ | Jan 04 1:50 PM US/Eastern | AFP

Posted on 01/04/2006 3:27:36 PM PST by 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. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: Ma3lst0rm
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???
21 posted on 01/04/2006 3:50:30 PM PST by Kay Ludlow (Free market, but cautious about what I support with my dollars)
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To: Mike Darancette
Too Right! This was just before the KT boundary.
22 posted on 01/04/2006 3:54:52 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm (Change is a given in a dynamic complex world.)
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To: Ma3lst0rm
Cenozoic map:


23 posted on 01/04/2006 3:55:59 PM PST by xcamel (Exposing clandestine operations is treason. 13 knots make a noose.)
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To: xrp
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 ....

24 posted on 01/04/2006 3:57:10 PM PST by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

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


25 posted on 01/04/2006 3:58:17 PM PST by microgood
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To: WatchYourself

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


26 posted on 01/04/2006 3:58:32 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm (Thinking for yourself is not illegal or a sin even.)
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To: softwarecreator

Don't give them any ideas. :-)


27 posted on 01/04/2006 4:00:12 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm (Thinking for yourself is not illegal or a sin even.)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

LOL... VERY clever


28 posted on 01/04/2006 4:02:55 PM PST by DLfromthedesert (Texas Cowboy...graduated to Glory)
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To: microgood

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.


29 posted on 01/04/2006 4:05:27 PM PST by Ma3lst0rm (Thinking for yourself is not illegal or a sin even.)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

YEC INTREP


30 posted on 01/04/2006 7:09:58 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

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!


31 posted on 01/04/2006 7:38:46 PM PST by Designed
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To: Ma3lst0rm
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..

32 posted on 01/08/2006 5:29:50 PM PST by Drammach (Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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33 posted on 05/14/2006 6:03:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Ma3lst0rm

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.


34 posted on 05/15/2006 5:29:24 AM PDT by DavemeisterP (It's never too late to be what you might have been....George Elliot)
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