Although the future
is an unknown place, the past can be studied.
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| Gabe Bowen from the University of Utah. |
University of Utah geochemist Gabe Bowen is one of those who
are fascinated by what was.
He is the lead author of the study published in the journal
Nature Geoscience that considers the rate at which carbon emissions warmed
Earth’s climate almost 56 million years ago.
Bowen and his compatriots found that what happened so long
ago resembles modern, human-caused global warming much more than previously
believed.
What happened then, the study found, involved two pulses of
carbon delivered to the atmosphere.
The University of Utah News Centre reported on the study’s findings
in a story headed: “Past Global Warming Similar to Today’s”.
“There is a positive note in that the world persisted, it
did not go down in flames, it has a way of self-correcting and righting
itself,” Gabe Bowen, said. “However, in this event it took almost 200,000 years
before things got back to normal,” he pointed out.
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