nothingcorporate@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weekslemmy.worldimagemessage-square668fedilinkarrow-up12.98Karrow-down150 cross-posted to: weather@feddit.ukbrainworms
arrow-up12.93Karrow-down1imageThe hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weekslemmy.worldnothingcorporate@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square668fedilink cross-posted to: weather@feddit.ukbrainworms
minus-squaremorsebipbiplinkfedilinkarrow-up49·edit-21 year agoTBF you can also pretty know the temperature from thousands of years ago somehow accurately by analysing ice from the polar caps
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoYeah but the original toot is only taking about measured temps, not proxy temps.
minus-squaresadreality@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down20·1 year agothey have daily readings from cores?
minus-squareheeplr@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up30·edit-21 year agoYearly. 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.
minus-squareGormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 year agoAlso 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
minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year ago 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…
TBF you can also pretty know the temperature from thousands of years ago somehow accurately by analysing ice from the polar caps
Yeah but the original toot is only taking about measured temps, not proxy temps.
they have daily readings from cores?
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.
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
The herd acts in mysterious ways… one would have thought we left those practices in the R-site…