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New finding shows climate change can happen in a geological instant

2013-10-07 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: "Rapid" and "instantaneous" are words geologists don't use very often. But Rutgers geologists use these exact terms to describe a climate shift that occurred 55 million years ago. In a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Morgan Schaller and James Wright contend that following a doubling in carbon dioxide levels, the surface of the ocean turned acidic over a period of weeks or months and global temperatures rose by 5 degrees centigrade - all in the space of about 13...

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