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An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

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  • James C. Zachos

    (University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95060, USA.)

  • Gerald R. Dickens

    (Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA.)

  • Richard E. Zeebe

    (Richard E. Zeebe is at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1000 Pope Road, MSB 504, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.)

Abstract

Past episodes of greenhouse warming provide insight into the coupling of climate and the carbon cycle and thus may help to predict the consequences of unabated carbon emissions in the future.

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  • James C. Zachos & Gerald R. Dickens & Richard E. Zeebe, 2008. "An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics," Nature, Nature, vol. 451(7176), pages 279-283, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:451:y:2008:i:7176:d:10.1038_nature06588
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06588
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