A World Of Searing Heat And Melted Ice Caps Climate Model Of Early Eocene Is Scary Finding For Earth S Future
The climate model of the Early Eocene—which took place between 48 to 54 million years ago—has provided researchers with the most detailed picture yet of how temperatures rose to 14 degrees Celsius above what they are today. “We were surprised that the climate sensitivity increased as much as it did with increasing carbon dioxide levels,” Jiang Zhu, an environmental research fellow at the University of Michigan, said in a statement....