Not exact matches
During the PETM, atmospheric carbon dioxide
more than doubled and global temperatures rose by 5 degrees Celsius, an increase that is comparable with the change that may occur by later
next century on modern Earth.
I would like to read a book about how the rate and degree of warming expected to take place over the
next couple
centuries compares with global warming episodes in Earth's past, and how today's plants and animals might not survive climate change and heat waves
more severe than experienced
during the climates in which their species evolved.
During the
next century, however, glacial melting will almost certainly become a much
more significant contributor.