Sentences with phrase «past hyperthermals»

Methane hydrates — methane molecules trapped in frozen water molecule cages in tundra and on continental shelves — and organic matter such as peat locked in frozen soils (permafrost) are likely mechanisms in the past hyperthermals, and they provide another climate feedback with the potential to amplify global warming if large scale thawing occurs [209]--[210].

Is methane, and the CO2 it produces, the most likely source of carbon for past hyperthermals?

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It's not like there isn't anything climate - y to talk about (sea ice minimums, extreme events, climate model tunings, past «hyperthermals»... etc.).

This CO2 - driven acidification of the oceans is already under way in our own epoch of global warming - and that same oceanic response in the past coincides with massive rises in temperature - the hyperthermal.

He has a particular interest in the relationship between volcanism and past climate change, including the possible trigger mechanisms for the enigmatic warming events known as hyperthermals, such as the PETM.