Total human carbon dioxide emissions could match those during Earth’s last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than five generations, new research finds.
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| Carbon dioxide emissions growing quickly. |
A new study finds humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a rate nine to 10 times higher than the greenhouse gas was emitted during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a global warming event that occurred roughly 56 million years ago.
The results suggest if carbon emissions continue to rise, the total amount of carbon dioxide injected into the atmosphere since humans started burning fossil fuels could equal the amount released during the PETM as soon as 2159.
Read the story from SCISCO Media by Robert Lea - “Carbon emissions may be reaching levels not seen for 56-million-years.”
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