Deep Ocean Temperatures used to be 10 to 15 degrees warmer

My March 8th post shows a chart illustrating deep ocean temperatures for the last 100 million years. At the website Global Climate Change Student Guide, the original home of the chart, I also found the following excerpt comparing prehistoric deep ocean temperatures with today:

… evidence from oxygen isotope records (Douglas & Woodruff, 1981) revealed that deep sea ocean temperatures were at least 10°C to 15°C warmer than they are today (see Figure 5.6). Early Cenozoic sea surface temperatures around Antarctica were also considerably warmer than today (Shackleton & Kennet, 1975) .

The early Eocene (55 to 50Ma) was the warmest period during the Cenozoic. Various climatic indices suggest that tropical conditions extended 10° to 15° of latitude poleward of their present limits.

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Japan earthquake shifts earth’s axis!

In my blog post yesterday, I wondered if the recent Japan Tsunami was the harbinger of Japan going down into the sea as predicted by psychic Edgar Cayce.

Interestingly, Edgar Cayce also predicted a shift of the earth’s axis.

Well, guess what? It turns out that the recent Japanese earthquake did move the earth’s axis by four inches!

Reports from an Italian institute estimated that Japan earthquake shifted Earth on its axis by as much as 4 inches, CNN said.

Japan quake shifted Earth 4 inches on its axis

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Is Atlantis buried in a Spanish swamp?

Google Earth satellite images revealed a circular pattern in a huge swampy area of the Parque National Coto de Donana, a national park in Spain south of Seville.

Spend a little time with Dr. Richard Freund of the University of Hartford, and you might be convinced that the lost city of Atlantis is buried deep within a swamp in southern Spain.

Has a University of Hartford Professor Found the Lost City of Atlantis?[Spain]

Freund’s finding will be broadcast on the National Geographic channel on Sunday, March 13th at 9:00 p.m. EDT.

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Recent global climate change is alarming

Although yesterday I said that I thought that the recent global climate warming did not seem to be alarming since the earth has been going through a general cooling period for the last 100 million years, scientists at the Global Climate Change Student Guide website believe there are reasons for concern. Here is an excerpt from the epilogue of their excellent fact-filled online book:

Today we may be witnessing one of the most profound climatic changes in the Earth’s history. Certainly, larger changes in global climate have occurred in the past, but over much longer time periods. The danger facing the global society today is that anthropogenic global warming may be too fast to allow humans, and other species, to adapt to its detrimental impacts. In addition, through enhanced greenhouse forcing, we may be pushing the climate system towards a bifurcation point, where climatic responses may become highly non-linear through complex feedback processes, driving the system to a completely different, and most probably, inhospitable state for humankind.

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Deep Ocean Temperatures over the last 100 million years

Yesterday’s chart showed the earth’s temperature for the last 4600 million years. That’s 4.6 billion years ago to the present.

Today, I have a chart showing deep ocean temperatures for only the last 100 million years.

Deep Ocean Temperatures During the Last 100 Million Years

Deep Ocean Temperatures During the Last 100 Million Years

The above image comes from a wonderful online book called Global Climate Change Student Guide. The link takes you to the chapter called Palaeoclimatic Change, Section: Cenozoic Climates. If you click on the “section 5.3” link on that page, you’ll see the above chart.

I am investigating earth’s climate history to see if the earth’s recent global warming is something alarming compared to the earth’s climate history. From what I see, the earth’s temperature seems to have been going downward. Therefore, I would imagine that the recent rise in temperature could be temporary.

In my hypnosis sessions, described in my book When We Were Gods, I mentioned earth changes. Therefore, I’m interested in discovering whether recent earth changes are normal or abnormal for our planet.

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Overall, the earth is in a cooling trend, not warming!

Take a look at this chart from the John Baez Temperature article that I referred to yesterday. Note that “today” is at the top of the image and that 4600 million years ago (Ma means “millions of years ago”) is at the bottom of the chart. That means that, overall, we are in a much cooler climate than the earth has been in the past!

Temperatures Over the Last 6.5 Billion Years

Temperatures Over the Last 6.5 Billion Years

The chart originally comes from: Barry Saltzman, Dynamical Paleoclimatology: Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change, Academic Press, New York, 2002, fig. 1-3

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The earth’s climate was much warmer millions of years ago

There is so much alarm because of Global Climate Change. Therefore, I wanted to see if the earth was ever as warm or warmer than it is now. I found that the earth has been much warmer than it is today millions of years ago.

Following, please find a chart showing the earth’s climate for the last 65 million years, from an online article by John Baez called, Temperature:

Temperature over the last 65 million years

Temperature over the last 65 million years

The description that goes with this chart is as follows:

This shows the Earth’s temperature since the extinction of the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago – the end of the Mesozoic and beginning of the Cenozoic. At first the Earth warmed up, reaching its warmest 50 million years ago: the “Eocene Optimum”. The spike before that labelled “PETM” is a fascinating event called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. At the end of the Eocene the Earth cooled rapidly and the Antarctic acquired year-round ice. After a warming spell near the end of the Oligocene, further cooling and an increasingly jittery climate led ultimately to the current age of rapid glacial cycles – “ice ages”.
This chart is taken from here:

Robert Rohde, 65 million years of climate change, for Global Warming Art.

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