On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:45 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! >
That is not what the data shows. Take a look: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.meltonengineering.com/Zachos%25202001%2520PETM%252072%2520dpi.jpg&imgrefurl=http://blog.concord.org/what-caused-the-paleocene-eocene-thermal-maximum&h=285&w=177&sz=1&tbnid=6QMv8FTf8uJhzM:&tbnh=186&tbnw=115&zoom=1&usg=__wTlZHQ6Tyy42yi8HlCVB2eoB-ck=&docid=LavOcNHQ3o3thM&itg=1&sa=X&ei=EOr6UvCqF7Th0AH2k4GACw&ved=0CKUBEPwdMAo > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
