miocene

Utah also has the potential for enormous hydrogen storage in Miocene salt formations near Delta (~15 TWh).

The last time the world was at +4C was the mid-miocene, 16 million years ago.

Our climate is on the path to Miocene where temperatures were 3-4C above today's levels.

The paper An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks [1]: > We present evidence for a previously unknown major extinction event in sharks that occurred in the early Miocene, ~19 million years ago.

I meant the Miocene where towards the end CO2 was ~500 ppm which we are over with CO2e.

The Miocene Arrow is an interesting post apocalyptic novel that takes this problem seriously.

I’ve been wanting to ask someone of your age, how was the Middle Miocene Climate Optimum?

This is well known in the Miocene and other periods.

I find a lot of Miocene whale fossils, but mostly broken and incomplete specimens.

> The turtle lived approximately 6 million years ago, curing the upper Miocene Epoch.

Unfortunately, during the Miocene Epoch, there was global cooling that affected fruit availability, especially during the cooler months, and as the fruit became scarce, many apes starved to extinction.

I recognize that the Aboriginal and other oral traditions preserve information for a long time, but this article is talking about climate from before the end of the Miocene around 5 million years ago.

You might want to look into the "Middle Miocene disruption", which refers to a wave of extinctions of terrestrial and aquatic life forms that occurred following the Miocene Climatic Optimum.

The North American "feral pigs" tearing up Texas should not be confused with javelinas[1] that have been on the continent since the Miocene...

Just in case any of you aren't already aware of it, there's extensive evidence that the Mediterranean partially or completely "dried up" during the Miocene (~6 million years ago) and then rapidly flooded again.

"Well honey, I guess we're not driving to that Seahawks game." The CRBs are mostly Miocene, ~15 million years ago, but similar volcanism has covered southern Idaho, and it's younger.

The last time the ocean pH was this low was during the middle Miocene, 14-17 million years ago.

There's a big oceanic fossil gap in the Miocene, because of this peak-temperature which seemed to tilt ecosystems too far.

The earth was 5-10 degF warmer in the Middle Miocene, about 15-20 million years ago.