[blam]

Looks like we have about 18,000 years more of good weather, huh?

[JeeperFreeper]

But...but... but, I thought it was all SUVs' and Bush's fault.

[ValerieUSA]

The Epica team has noticed the interglacial period of 400,000 years ago closely matches our own - because the shape of the Earth's orbit was the same then as it is now.

Can we expect an apology from the envirowackos of Kyoto? Maybe just a little "Oops" from Algore?

[Larry Lucido]

Tiny bubbles of ancient air are locked in the ice

As compared with the air outside that was manufactured, what, last year?

[VadeRetro]

Analysis of the ice proves our planet has had eight Ice Ages during that period, punctuated by rather brief warm spells - one of which we enjoy today.

Already I don't like this.

[shield]

bmp...read later

[bert]

So, the human species is the product of an interglacial..... when the cold resumes, so will the species.

[Kay Ludlow]

I wonder how closely they can narrow down a time period when they are looking back across that many years. Really, the C02 levels that they talking about today as so high represent a few years - 10, 20 or so. Averaged across the last century they likely are still really normal. Can they find a section that correlates to a particular century? I wouldn't think so - I think they'd be lucky to be able to identify particular 1000 year time spans. That means that statistically it's meaningless to compare this years C02 to anything they find in the cores.

That would be like taking the last few letters of a book and comparing them to the entire book - "THE END has a far greater representation the the capital E than the rest of the book, demonstrating a trend toward increasing capitalized vowels". Comparing this year to nearly a million years worth of ice core is just as meaningless.

[rightofrush]

bttt

[Old Professer]

This could take awhile to analyze; each foot represents 40.4 years.

[BenLurkin]

Very interesting. "Tiny bubbles of ancient air are locked in the ice"

What will analysis of the air show I wonder?

[PoorMuttly]

How did this get in here. Fire the Editor!

""The next ice-age is not imminent," said Dr Wolff, "and greenhouse warming makes it even less likely"

[farmfriend]

The Epica team has noticed the interglacial period of 400,000 years ago closely matches our own - because the shape of the Earth's orbit was the same then as it is now.

Big surprise there!

[Junior]

Ping.

[SunkenCiv]

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