Sentences with phrase «ancient warming events»

Last year, Cooper spotted a similar pattern in North America, with megafauna going extinct during ancient warming events (which occurred at slightly different times in the Northern Hemisphere).

Scientists are interested in studying ancient warming events to understand how the Earth behaves when the climate system is dramatically perturbed.

The Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)- an ancient warming event that occurred about 56 million years ago - is often thought of as a potential framework for future climate change.

Current climate change predictions have been confirmed by an ancient warming event that surpasses today's warming world, according to a new study.

Hot magma deep within Earth may have heated carbon - rich rocks, releasing methane into the atmosphere and leading to an ancient warming event, scientists suggest.

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Layered volcanic rocks in Eastern Greenland that are up to 4 miles thick were formed during ancient volcanic eruptions that caused a global warming event called the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).

The results of Schaller, Fung and his team will prompt further investigations into the possible influence of an impact event on the global environmental change that characterized this notable warming period in Earth's ancient history.

All I could find around that time was Tropical Forest Diversity Increased During Ancient Global Warming Event.

Ancient trees reveal that the El Niño and La Niña events that wreak havoc on climate worldwide have been even more extreme than anyone knew, a revelation that suggests wilder swings in the future as the world gets warmer.