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[Welcome to 2024 and the past 800,000 years of atmospheric CO2.]
BardMoss the Bodhi Linux Guy@petergleick
That all looks very impressive, but what measuring equipment did we have until the last 30 years or so? How do they get the measurements for 200,000 years ago?
That all looks very impressive, but what measuring equipment did we have until the last 30 years or so? How do they get the measurements for 200,000 years ago?
@zaivala Google "Vostok ice cores" and learn about "paleoclimate" measures and indicators.
In this case they actually recover bubbles of ancient atmosphere trapped in ancient ice.
In this case they actually recover bubbles of ancient atmosphere trapped in ancient ice.
@petergleick I figured I was just too stupid to know something. Science go science