Sunday, April 8, 2012

New Mechanism of Past Global Warming? Thawing Permafrost 50 Million Years Ago Led to Global Warming Events


New studies were reported in nature.Climate scientists proposed a new necluanism that can explain the source of carbon that fed a series of extreme warning evens 55 million years ago.Plus a couple of other similar,smaller warning events after that.
The standard hypothesis has been that the source of carbon was in the ocean.In a from of froze methane gas in the ocean floor sediments.
Instead of that,the scientists are aseribing  the carbon source the the continents.In polar latitudes where permafrost can store massive amounts of carbon that can be realizes as CO2 when the permafrost thaws.
This is supported by calculations estimating interactions of variables like greenhouse gas levels,changes in Earth's tilt and orbit,ancient distributions of vegetation's and Gabon stored in rock and in frozen soil.
While the amounts of carbon involved in the ancient soil and how scenarios was much grater than today.Implications of the study appear dire for the long term future as poor permafrost carbon deposited have begun to thaw due to burning fossil-flues.
Similar things are happening today.Global warming is degrading permafrost in the north polar regions, thawing of frozen organic matter.Which will decay to realization man-thane the atmosphere.This will exaprate future warming in a positive feedback loop.
The Earth's atmospheric temperature is a result of energy input from the sun,minus what escapes back to space.
Save the Earth.Because while saving it we are saving our self's.



"New Mechanism of Past Global Warming? Thawing Permafrost 50 Million Years Ago Led to Global Warming 
     Events." Science Daily. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Apr. 2012. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/ 
     2012/04/120404133801.htm>. 

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