Was the Early Eocene ocean unbearably warm or are the proxies unbelievably wrong?

Christopher J. Hollis (a), Kristina M. Pascher (a,b), Benjamin R. Hines (b), Kate Littler (c,d), Denise K. Kulhanek (e), C. Percy Strong (a), James C. Zachos (c), Stephen M. Eggins (f) & Andy Phillips (a)
(a) GNS Science, PO Box 30368, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand. E-mail: c.hollis@gns.cri.nz (b) Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand. (c) Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95060, USA. (d) Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK. (e) Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, TX 77845-9547, USA. (f) Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia.