ICE CORES STUDY
June 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN scientists have extracted a 740,000-year-old ice core from the Antarctic and think by analysing its contents they will predict how the world's climate will respond to today's unprecedented levels of carbon dioxide. Initial tests show that these are higher than they have been for 440,000 years. The European Union (EU) funded EPICA (European Ice Core Project in Antarctica) initiative dug three kilometres into the polar ice crust to retrieve the core, the oldest ever analysed. Said a European Commission note: "It shows changes in temperature ...
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