Do You Know the Long Term Trends When it Comes to Global Warming?
I know this has very little to do with my usual topics but I found it very interesting and wanted to share.
Are you worried about the impact of global warming?
I kind of was, until I found this chart. What are your thoughts.
Global temperature variation for the past 425,000 years. The present is at the right. The horizontal 0 line represents the 1961–990 average global temperature. The numbers on the left show the variation from that baseline in °C.
The data were derived from an analysis of ice cores taken at the Vostok station in Antarctica. Find out more about how temperature estimates are made from proxy data.
Image based on data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
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