Record Amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere '

oslo - Greenhouse gas emissions is greater than ever. Even the largest known so far peak in emissions, about 56 million years ago, according to scientists pales to that of today.

The old record had a natural cause. It was probably established by frozen gases suddenly thawed and loosened from the seabed. Global temperatures rose an estimated 5 degrees and the oceans soured considerably. Ecological disaster which took numerous types of head.

The researchers, who printed their findings in the journal Nature Geoscience, went through fossils 66 million years back in time, to when the dinosaurs died out suddenly. That startling change was probably caused by an asteroid impact or a similar catastrophe, possibly even more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere came over today. But the material in order to establish that is missing.