Giant penguins thrived in a much warmer world, without year-round sea ice… Yet modern penguins are doomed by warming temperatures and declining year-round sea ice… Right.
Tag: Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
PETM: Good Science Meets Science Journalism in the Gulf of Mexico
Guest “Oy vey!” by David Middleton 4 June 2022 Qamariya Nasrullah How ancient ocean life in the Gulf of Mexico escaped mass extinctionThe geology of the sheltered basin helped protect…
Study: Ancient Fish Thrived During PETM Extreme Global Warming
The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of extremely rapid global warming which occurred 10 million years after the demise of the dinosaurs, was supposed to have been an ocean catastrophe.…
Cenozoic Ice Age Caused by Drop in CO2… Because Models
Guest “I couldn’t make this sort of schist up if I was trying” by David Middleton H/T to Robert Bissett… Drop in Greenhouse Gas Caused Global Cooling 34 Million Years…
Revisiting Day One of the Cenozoic Era
Guest geology by David Middleton Cenozoic Era: The Era of New Life Who would have ever guessed that details about the first day of the Cenozoic Era might have been…
140 Years to a PETM-Style Doomsday!!! Another PETM/Chicken Little of the Sea Epic Fail
Guest geology lesson by David Middleton PETM = Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Research ArticleTemporal Scaling of Carbon Emission and Accumulation Rates: Modern Anthropogenic Emissions Compared to Estimates of PETM Onset Accumulation…
Permian Extinction… Because Climate Change!
Guest eye roll by David Middleton From Real Clear Science… The Two Great Killers of ‘The Great Dying’ By Ross Pomeroy – RCP Staff The Siberian Traps in northern Russia…
The Total Myth of Ocean Acidification, Part Deux: The Scientific Basis
Guest essay by David Middleton Here’s a shocker… I’ve actually never seen Hot Shots! Part Deux. As much as I love stupid comedies, I’ve never actually seen the movie. But…
Another half-done press release – where's the science citation?
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst , another highly speculative modeling based press release that doesn’t even bother to give the name of the paper or any resources connected…
They shrink horses, don't they?
From the University of Nebraska-Lincoln . Tom Nelson quipped earlier today that he hadn’t noticed any pygmy horses near the equator where it is warmer. Study: Evolution of earliest horses…
Paleopessimism by Proxy
Carbon release and global warming now and in the ancient past From the National Oceanography Centre Our findings suggest that humankind may be causing atmospheric carbon dioxide to increase at…
Ancient "Hyperthermals" aka global warming, more frequent than previously thought
Ancient “Hyperthermals” a Guide to Anticipated Climate Changes Scripps researchers document the history of sudden global warming events, impacts on marine life By Mario Aguilera, Scripps Institute News (h/t to…
Ancient natural global warming
Arctic environment during an ancient bout of natural global warming Scientists are unravelling the environmental changes that took place around the Arctic during an exceptional episode of ancient global warming.…
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