Nearly a million years of ice and atmosphere are stored in this Colorado lab

By Dilpreet Raju, June 14, 2023 –  Thousands of meters of ice banked in below-freezing temperatures allow climate researchers to analyze what the Earth’s climate was like hundreds of thousands of years ago and document the rapidly accelerating rise of carbon emissions, the thermostat driving global warming. Climatologists can then take bits of the ice, …

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