And this is supposed to be bad news or something
(Nature World News) Warming that occurred almost 56 million years ago isn’t all that different from the human-caused global warming we’re experiencing today. And a new study suggests that this past warming event can provide a window into future climate change.
During the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or PETM, 56 million years ago, temperatures rose by 5 to 8 degrees Celsius (9 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit). It also involved the average annual release of at least 0.9 petagrams (1.98 trillion pounds) of carbon to the atmosphere. While it’s promising that Earth and most species managed to survive this episode, it also took millennia for them to recover.
First of all, if you are using improper terminology, referring to CO2 as “carbon”, your point is a political one, not scientific. That same bad terminology is used in the statement from the scientists
“There is a positive note in that the world persisted, it did not go down in flames, it has a way of self-correcting and righting itself,” lead author Gabe Bowen, from the University of Utah, said in a statement. “However, in this event it took almost 200,000 years before things got back to normal.”
Normal? What is normal? Can any Warmist tell us what that is? If we look at the history of the Earth, normal would be much higher temperatures than today. But, there is no “normal.” They Earth has gone through periods of heat, warmth, cool, cold, even snowball Earth.
Let’s delve into the statement, shall we?
Bowen says previous research has shown that during the Paleocene-Eocene warm period, there was “enhanced storminess in some areas, increased aridity in other places. We see continent-scale migration of animals and plants, ranges are shifting. We see only a little bit of extinction – some groups of deep-sea foraminifera, one-cell organisms that go extinct at the start of this event. Not much else went extinct.â€
“We see the first wave of modern mammals showing up,†including ancestral primates and hoofed animals,†he adds. Oceans became more acidic, as they are now.
So, nothing bad? Just typical changes to the Earth?
One also has to ask “what caused the spike in CO2 and methane release during that time period, which are being blamed for the temperature increase?” They offer some conjecture. Why can’t those conjectured reasons be applicable today? Oh, right, “climate change” is a political movement. Not scientific.
