GLOBAL WARMING: Methane threatens to repeat Ice Age meltdown 55 million years ago, a massive blast of gas drove up Earth's temperature 7C. And another explosion is on the cards, say experts

The Independent (London, England) | June 16, 2001| | Copyright

A PERIOD of ecological and evolutionary chaos 55 million years ago, caused by a release from the earth of 2,000 billion tons of methane gas, has been discovered by scientists who fear a repeat could cause a devastating acceleration in global warming.

The new research, revealed this Sunday evening in a Channel 4 documentary The Day the Oceans Boiled, suggests that methane releases helped drive up temperatures by seven degrees centigrade in many parts of the world.

Now some scientists fear a series of massive methane emissions, triggered by the man-made global warming, could propel earth's ...

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