On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:45 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 February 2014 10:48, Richard Ruquist <yann...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:22 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
