{"id":23795,"date":"2016-03-21T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=23795"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:42:18","slug":"relatively-slow-greenhouse-injections-triggered-ancient-hothouse-by-eric-hand-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/relatively-slow-greenhouse-injections-triggered-ancient-hothouse-by-eric-hand-science","title":{"rendered":"Relatively slow greenhouse injections triggered ancient hothouse \u2014 By Eric Hand | Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/permafrost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a cautionary tale buried in Earth\u2019s past. Some 56 million years ago, about 10 million years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/03\/scientists-gear-drill-ground-zero-impact-killed-dinosaurs\">after the dinosaurs went extinct<\/a>, a massive amount of carbon surged into the atmosphere, triggering a rise in temperature of 5\u00b0C. Scientists often look to the so-called Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) as an analog for today\u2019s rising temperatures, because the magnitude of that ancient carbon injection is thought to be comparable to what humans will release if fossil fuel emissions continue unabated for a few more centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/03\/relatively-slow-greenhouse-injections-triggered-ancient-hothouse\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is a cautionary tale buried in Earth\u2019s past. Some 56 million years ago, about 10 million years after the dinosaurs went extinct, a massive amount of carbon surged into the atmosphere, triggering a rise in temperature of 5\u00b0C. Scientists often look to the so-called Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) as an analog for today\u2019s rising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,46,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-events","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42991,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23795\/revisions\/42991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}