The Last Time the Globe Warmed

Learn more about CuriosityStream at http://curiositystream.com/eons Check out our podcast Eons: Mysteries of Deep Time: http://ow.ly/2J4450Iu69U Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well, there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far) PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Special thanks to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his work: http://spinops.blogspot.com/ Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook -   / eonsshow   Twitter -   / eonsshow   Instagram -   / eonsshow   References: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2010/0... http://advances.sciencemag.org/conten... http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/co... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/... http://science.sciencemag.org/content... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... http://www.pnas.org/content/105/10/38... http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10... https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth... https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Fea... http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/ar... http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v9... http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/trends/... http://cdiac.ess-dive.lbl.gov/ftp/ndp... https://www.sciencealert.com/carbon-e... https://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v... https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleas... https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Fea... http://www.ei.lehigh.edu/eli/cc/resou... http://people.earth.yale.edu/paleocen... http://pages.geo.wvu.edu/~kammer/g231... http://www.scotese.com/newpage9.htm http://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonou... http://academic.evergreen.edu/z/zita/... http://naturalhistory.si.edu/ete/ETE_... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/201... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/... https://www.livescience.com/15597-pri... https://news.nationalgeographic.com/n... http://electronic-earth.net/3/19/2008... https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscienti... https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo1... http://www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=...