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Ice cores reveal climate secrets

The amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is higher than an any other point in the past 800,000 years.

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Brumfiel, G. Ice cores reveal climate secrets. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.825

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