Around 56 million years ago, Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), one of the most famous historical hyperthermal events, led our planet to a super greenhouse condition. It is very important for us to understand how it happened and how it affected the environment, because studying past climatic events of extreme global warmth may be one of the best ways for us to understand and predict future environmental and ecological changes in response to ongoing anthropogenic warming.
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Source: Phys.org