--Alfred E. Cockburn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Neuman
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Alexander Cockburn:
>
> > It's a notorious inconvenience for the
> Greenhousers that data also
> > show CO2 concentrations from the Eocene period, 20
> million years
> > before Henry Ford trundled out his first Model T,
> 300 to 400
> > percent higher than current concentrations.
>
> Wikipedia
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Climate>:
>
> > Marking the start of the Eocene, the planet heated
> up in one of the
> > most rapid (in geologic terms) and extreme global
> warming events
> > recorded in geologic history, called the
> Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
> > Maximum or Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM or
> IETM). This was
> > an episode of rapid and intense warming (up to 7°C
> at high
> > latitudes) that lasted less than 100,000 years
> [1]. The Thermal
> > Maximum provoked a sharp extinction event that
> distinguishes Eocene
> > fauna from the ecosystems of the Paleocene.
> >
> > The Eocene global climate was perhaps the most
> homogeneous of the
> > Cenozoic; the temperature gradient from equator to
> pole was only
> > half that of today's, and deep ocean currents were
> exceptionally
> > warm.[2] The polar regions were much warmer than
> today, perhaps as
> > mild as the modern-day Pacific Northwest;
> temperate forests
> > extended right to the poles, while rainy tropical
> climates extended
> > as far north as 45 degrees latitude. The
> difference was greatest in
> > the temperate latitudes; the climate in the
> tropics however, was
> > probably similar to today's.(Stanley, 508)
>
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