On 12 February 2014 10:48, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:22 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I don't see that. Warming oceans have less capacity to absorb gas from >>> the atmosphere, and would eventually start to release it back again, at >>> which point we'll really be into runaway feedback (or our grandchildren >>> will). It's possible that's what happened in the relatively fast warming >>> around the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. See for example >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeocene-Eocene_Thermal_Maximum#Methane_release >>> >> > The climate in the so-called > Palaeocene-Eocene_Thermal_Maximum<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeocene-Eocene_Thermal_Maximum#Methane_release> > lasted > for 20 million years. > 200,000 according to that article. Also from that article: "At the start of the PETM, average global temperatures increased by approximately 6 °C (11 °F) within about 20,000 years." That was the result of natural processes. The human race is doing a lot "better" than that! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
