A recent article claimed that volcanism in the North Atlantic, supposedly 56 million years ago, led to an intense phase of global warming. They claimed this has “implications for modern climate change.”

The problem: it’s just speculation based on wrong assumptions. They are interpreting the vast volcanic landscapes (like Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland) and associated sedimentary strata as forming over millions of years. However, these rocks formed in just a few months during Noah’s Flood, about 4,500 years ago.

Specifically, the rocks formed as the flood­wa­ters on the earth were turning from rising to falling (see geology trans­form­a­tion diagram). This was because the earth’s crust began to fracture, the ocean basins began to sink, and the earth’s mantle melted. This produced ginormous volumes of molten magma. This squeezed to the surface through monstrous fissures in the crust, covering enormous areas with volcanic lava.

These misinterpretations of the geology of Noah’s Flood lead to a misunderstanding of what happened in the past. So they draw wrong conclusions about the earth’s climate.