Dating an ancient episode of severe global warming

1 posted on 06/15/2011 1:19:12 PM PDT by decimon

Thermal anomaly ping.

2 posted on 06/15/2011 1:20:05 PM PDT by decimon

3 posted on 06/15/2011 1:20:44 PM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)

To: steelyourfaith

4 posted on 06/15/2011 1:24:53 PM PDT by Amagi (ObamaCare proposed a tax on Tanning Salons. That is RACISM STRAIGHT UP!)

Regardless of what anyone thinks is the age of the earth, the evidence of Noah’s global, catastrophic flood is overwhelming.

The flood was responsible for almost all of the current formations and features we see today.

5 posted on 06/15/2011 1:25:58 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)

Dating an ancient episode of severe global warming

I ain't datin NO ONE, NO MO.

The last girlfriend cured me of the desire.

6 posted on 06/15/2011 1:26:32 PM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. -- Lazamataz, 2005)

it was warring, beef-eating, white males who drove buicks that caused the paleocene–eocene global warming.

7 posted on 06/15/2011 1:27:33 PM PDT by ken21 (liberal + rino progressive media hate palin, bachman, cain...)

To: Amagi; proud_yank; Bockscar; grey_whiskers; WL-law; IrishCatholic; Whenifhow; SolitaryMan; ...

Thanx for the ping Amagi !

Beam me to Planet Gore !

8 posted on 06/15/2011 1:27:49 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)

it was warring, beef-eating, white males who drove buicks that caused the paleocene–eocene global warming

Sure, blame it on the American-made cars!

9 posted on 06/15/2011 1:30:51 PM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")

a .234 million year boundary? More important did life on earth end? No but you should have seen T.rex arguing about whether or not a meat eating diet was causing flatulence...

10 posted on 06/15/2011 1:44:54 PM PDT by BoneHead

11 posted on 06/15/2011 1:46:29 PM PDT by BoneHead

It was the darn sun then too!

12 posted on 06/15/2011 1:46:58 PM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)

Dating an ancient episode of severe global warming
I ain't datin NO ONE, NO MO.

The last girlfriend cured me of the desire.

Could she be described as an ancient episode?

13 posted on 06/15/2011 1:47:11 PM PDT by decimon

Out on a date with the right person you can definitely experience some global warming, and it’s been that way since ancient times.

14 posted on 06/15/2011 1:49:01 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)

took place “over 20,000 years”

we have some time then i guess.

15 posted on 06/15/2011 1:49:36 PM PDT by beebuster2000

Compared to other early Eocene hyperthermals, it appears that the PETM was triggered by a different mechanism

Maybe the sun was warmer?

16 posted on 06/15/2011 2:05:29 PM PDT by frithguild

Dating sure has become a lot more complicated than when I was young. It used to be you just asked a girl out, told her she looked nice, squirmed while her parents asked nosey questions, found a movie theatre or a nice place to eat and generally had a nice time together.

Today...whew! Glad I’m not doing that.

17 posted on 06/15/2011 2:14:50 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)

...squirmed while her parents asked nosey questions...

Date orphans.

18 posted on 06/15/2011 2:23:19 PM PDT by decimon

Lots of if, ands or buts in these articles. When a dead Buick came in on a hook it was either air, fuel or spark but that was during the last ice age give or take 20 or 50,000 years ago and will someone ask Laz if the girlfriend of which he spoke was the one last night or the one yesterday morning...

19 posted on 06/15/2011 4:01:34 PM PDT by tubebender (Help! I've fallen, and I can't reach my wine!)

To: decimon; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...

Thanks decimon.

Using sophisticated methods of dating rocks, a team including University of Southampton researchers based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, have pinned down the timing of the start of an episode of an ancient global warming known as the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM)... The early part of the Cenozoic era, which started around 65.5 million years ago witnessed a series of transient global warming events called hyperthermals... One possibility is that these hyperthermals were driven by cyclic variations in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit around the sun. At the cycle peaks, increased temperatures could have caused methane hydrate deposits in the deep sea to release large amounts of methane. Some of this potent greenhouse gas would have entered the atmosphere resulting in further intensification of the climatic warming, which would have continued as the methane was fairly rapidly converted into carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

This reminds me of that ridiculous book that claims that the Great Pyramid was constructed to produce (or harness) electricity to run the power tools used to build... uh... the Great Pyramid... oh, wait...

If the seas were to warm at depth, it wouldn't be because the atmosphere got a little warmer -- there would have to be a big-assed impact from space. Period. This "warming at depth" B.S. is one of the seemingly endless stream of illogical and later discredited reasons that global warming hasn't shown up yet which have been invented by the global warming demagogues.

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20 posted on 06/15/2011 5:22:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)

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