• @[email protected]
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    TBF you can also pretty know the temperature from thousands of years ago somehow accurately by analysing ice from the polar caps

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        Yearly. They look at slices generated by compressed layers of snowfall. Thick layer = cold year. They look at more stuff but that’s roughly how it works.

        edit: not sure why you’re downvoted. It’s a good question.

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          Also the composition of captured gasses dissolved in the ice help us see what the atmosphere was like back then

          It’s a really cool field to look into NGL

        • @Siegfried
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          not sure why you’re downvoted. It’s a good question.

          The herd acts in mysterious ways… one would have thought we left those practices in the R-site…