Past warming periods offer a worrying view of the Arctic’s future
Two new studies show that ancient warming periods led the release of a lot of methane from thawing permafrost and Arctic seabeds.
While discussions of global warming typically on the amount of greenhouse gas humans are putting into the air — primarily by doing things like burning fossil fuels — scientists, have long been concerned about the potential for natural processes to contribute to rising temperatures, too.
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