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This is the ice core readings, it shows CO2 levels higher 300k years ago than now, how is that so? It seems if you are correct and I am wrong about the accuracy of the samples, then apparently before humans were driving cars and running power plants, the CO2 levels were too high.......maybe we are not the only cause for higher CO2? Also, after a time of elevated levels it shows a steep decline and then a cooling period, or is it a steep cooling period and then a lowering of CO2?
A difficulty in ice core dating is that gases can
diffuse through firn, so the ice at a given depth may be substantially older than the gases trapped in it. As a result, there are two chronologies for a given ice core: one for the ice, and one for the trapped gases. To determine the relationship between the two, models have been developed for the depth at which gases are trapped for a given location, but their predictions have not always proved reliable.
[39][40] At locations with very low snowfall, such as
Vostok, the uncertainty in the difference between ages of ice and gas can be over 1,000 years.
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"The density and size of the bubbles trapped in ice provide an indication of crystal size at the time they formed. The size of a crystal is related to its growth rate, which in turn depends on the temperature, so the properties of the bubbles can be combined with information on accumulation rates and firn density to calculate the temperature when the firn formed.
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