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Volcanic CO2 to blame for warmest period in 66 mn years

The most rapid and extreme natural global warming event of the last 66 million years was driven by massive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from volcanoes during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean. During the period known as Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) which lasted for around 150 thousand years, global temperatures increased by at least …

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September 1, 2017