After Gutenberg

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1. jcwinnie
   Posted 2011-6-7 at 11:37 am | Permalink

   “You can’t say we weren’t warned,” says the author of Hell and High Water. According to a new study we are pushing the climate system 10 times harder than it was pushed during the PETM (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum). According to an international team of geologists, PETM, which occurred 55.9 million years ago as the result of natural forcings, is “the best analog we have for current global warming.”

   Professor Romm had written before about such human forced acceleration of changes to our world, a.k.a., ecocide. A different Nature Geoscience study found that “our oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred.”

   And the UK’s Royal Society published a 2010 paper that noted, “Palaeotemperature proxy data from across the PETM indicate a coincident increase in global surface temperatures of approximately 5-6°C,” which is to say 9° – 11°F.

2. jcwinnie
   Posted 2011-6-15 at 11:13 am | Permalink

   72 Australian scientists say, “Climate change is real, we are causing it, and it is happening right now.”