Has there ever been a period in Earth’s history where CO2 concentration in the atmosphere changed this quickly without being accompanied by mass extinctions?
Boy, got awful quiet all of a sudden, huh? 🤣😂 Bro is over there desperately trying to convince himself that nah, he could totally live on Venus as long as he only measures the surface temperature as an average over 40 billion years, give or take
The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum is actually a great analogue for what we’re currently experiencing. Huge increase in global temperature over a relatively short period of time, probably due to runaway methane release. It went back to normal within a few hundred thousand years because of increased planktonic CO2 sequestration in the expanded tropical zone.
Has there ever been a period in Earth’s history where CO2 concentration in the atmosphere changed this quickly without being accompanied by mass extinctions?
Boy, got awful quiet all of a sudden, huh? 🤣😂 Bro is over there desperately trying to convince himself that nah, he could totally live on Venus as long as he only measures the surface temperature as an average over 40 billion years, give or take
The Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum is actually a great analogue for what we’re currently experiencing. Huge increase in global temperature over a relatively short period of time, probably due to runaway methane release. It went back to normal within a few hundred thousand years because of increased planktonic CO2 sequestration in the expanded tropical zone.