Earth on Fast Track to Warming

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Earth on Fast Track to Warming

Posted on Feb 20, 2006

BBC: Greenhouse gases are being released 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth’s past.

That is the conclusion of scientists who presented results at a conference in St Louis, in the US. Emissions that caused a global warming episode 55 million years ago were released over 10,000 years.

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