Ice Cores Reveal Fluctuations In Earth's Greenhouse Gases

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Fri, 05/16/2008 - 15:30

The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link between greenhouse gas levels and global warming, scientists have reported in Nature.


 

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