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Interesting: "Towards the base, the ice is more than 120,000 years old and dates back to the last interglacial period, a time when the atmospheric temperature above Greenland was 5°C warmer than today."
I'm not a scientist so I'm curious why this is interesting.
Interesting: "Towards the base, the ice is more than 120,000 years old and dates back to the last interglacial period, a time when the atmospheric temperature above Greenland was 5°C warmer than today."
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So although the human species will probably survive a drastic climate change, many individuals will not due to famine, lack of medical supplies and care, and war over the remaining resources.
Interesting: "Towards the base, the ice is more than 120,000 years old and dates back to the last interglacial period, a time when the atmospheric temperature above Greenland was 5°C warmer than today."
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Given that Greenland regularly gains surface mass, even this year gaining close to 50 gigatons as of June 20th: https://nsidc.org/greenland-today/files/2023/06/SMB_Fig3_15J... , you might have to wait a few more millenia or even another 100K before the next interglacial.
Interesting: "Towards the base, the ice is more than 120,000 years old and dates back to the last interglacial period, a time when the atmospheric temperature above Greenland was 5°C warmer than today."
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The major ecological shifts may bring change humanity does not bounce back from.
Interesting: "Towards the base, the ice is more than 120,000 years old and dates back to the last interglacial period, a time when the atmospheric temperature above Greenland was 5°C warmer than today."
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The problem with this argument is that 'humans' surviving, is different than 'our nice comfortable human society' surviving.
Yes, the human species as an animal that can survive by foraging, probably will survive. That isn't a great argument.
Would it theoreticaly possible to find frozen animals 120.000 years old with still intact DNA?
Yeah, DNA in ice has a half-life of a million years. Seems very much possible.
Interesting: "Towards the base, the ice is more than 120,000 years old and dates back to the last interglacial period, a time when the atmospheric temperature above Greenland was 5°C warmer than today."
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I think even our ability to start fire at will is conclusively known to be only ~50,000 years ago.
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But Y is a vowel?
English rules for using "a" or "an" depend on sounds used in the next word, not particular letters. "A unit" and "An hour" are easy examples that might trip people up when focused on the letters used in spelling, but if you sound it out, you can probably work out what sounds best.
- an herb (US), where the "h" is silent
- a herb (UK)
Cue confusion about "an historic".