A world record ice core was drilled in Antarctica. This is just the beginning of the process of learning from it, but at least they got it.
Antarctic Ice Core Unlocks 1.2 Million Years of Unbroken Climate History, Setting New Record
" “We have marked a historic moment for climate and environmental science,” said Carlo Barbante of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, coordinator of Beyond EPICA. The core was retrieved during the project’s fourth Antarctic campaign. “This is the longest continuous record of our past climate from an ice core, and it can reveal the interlink between the carbon cycle and temperature of our planet.”
Between 900,000 and 1.2 million years ago, glacial cycles shifted from lasting 41,000 years to 100,000 years—a shift known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. The Beyond EPICA project aims to better understand this ancient climate phenomenon."
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