Today the average global temperature is around 15-16 degrees Celsius, but in the Paleocene it was around ... The event is known as the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) but the cause ...

Based on the geological record, we know that Earth warmed by more than 5 to 8 °C during the period known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. We also understand that dramatic changes in Earth ...