<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/fmon-nef012218.php" class="has-thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(241, 241, 241); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; min-height: 125px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><header style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px; margin-right: 110px;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;">Public Release: 22-Jan-2018</div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; color: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 17px;">New Eocene fossil data suggest climate models may underestimate future polar warming</h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 12px;">FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY</span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-right: 110px;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><font color="#000000" class="">A new international analysis of marine fossils shows that warming of the polar oceans during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that provides a glimpse of Earth's potential future climate, was greater than previously thought.</font></p></div><dl class="meta hidden-xs dl-horizontal" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-right: 110px;"><dt class="yellow" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; float: left; width: auto; clear: left; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; text-transform: uppercase; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 177, 52); padding-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 12px; min-width: 100px;"><font color="#000000" class="">JOURNAL</font></dt><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 100px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</font></em></dd></dl></a><div class=""><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/12/1714744115" class="">http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/12/1714744115</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Plain-language press release</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/fmon-nef012218.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/fmon-nef012218.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Excerpt from release</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Yes, the tropics are warming but nowhere near to the same degree as the polar regions," Evans said. "That's something we really need to be able to understand and replicate in climate models. The fact that many models are unable to do that at the moment is worrying."</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br class="">“The impacts of temperature may also be more indirect, but still related to physiological tolerances. <br class="">For example, in spiny lizards (Sceloporus), local extinctions seem to occur because higher temperatures <br class="">restrict surface activity during the spring breeding season to a daily time window that is overly short [23]. <br class=""><br class="">Similarly, increased air temperatures may both decrease activity time and increase energy maintenance costs, <br class="">leading organisms to die from starvation rather than from overheating [14].”<br class=""><br class="">Cahill et al. How does climate change cause extinction? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. <br class="">2013. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1890" class="">http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1890</a> </div></div>
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