Ancient Global Warming & What It Might Mean for the Future
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- National Museum of Natural History
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- Video Title
- Ancient Global Warming & What It Might Mean for the Future
- Description
- Roughly 56 million years ago, the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum took place and raised global temperatures at 5-8 degrees centigrade over 10,000 years. These warm periods lasted 100,000 years and caused a number of changes in our planet. Smithsonian research scientist Dr. Scott Wing, Curator of Fossil Plants at the Smithsonian's Natural Museum of Natural History, explains this event and some of these changes.
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- 3 min 58 sec
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- smithsonian natural history ocean anthropology forensics entomology zoology science culture dinosaurs biology
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- 2012-02-03T17:25:53.000Z
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- Education
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- Natural History
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