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Nature Geoscience 2, 537 - 538 (2009)
Published online: 13 July 2009 | doi:10.1038/ngeo582

Subject Category: Palaeoclimate and palaeoceanography

Palaeoclimate: Enigmatic Earth

David J. Beerling1

  1. David Beerling is in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
    e-mail: d.j.beerling@sheffield.ac.uk


Global warming 55 million years ago was accompanied by a massive injection of carbon into the ocean-atmosphere system, but the resulting climatic warming was much greater than expected from the modelled rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide alone.

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