Ice Core Record Extended
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Analyses of trapped air show current CO2 at highest level in 650,000 years
Ice cores drilled at vostok Station in East Antarctica provide evidence of Earth's temperatures and greenhouse gases for the past 440,000 years. Now, data from a new ice core called EPICA Dome C, drilled roughly 600 miles from Vostok, extends that record back another 210,000 years. Read more .....
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i48/8348notw1.html
