Atmosphere and Al Gore's interview on Channel 9 KQED local television gave me an idea. This is not a theory or a fact, it is only an idea that may bring more understanding to scientists and environmentalists while establishing a conversation with every person around the world. Keep in mind your footprint, this discussion will only form a subject, the subject of atmosphere.
Mood lighting is a back to basis for the surrounding or pervading influence of any environment as the emotional tone will effect art and definitely increase or decrease the tone. Distinct to such is the open ended definition to the word atmosphere thus creating more to rather than less than, simple mathematics. Shape that as water in the glass yet a glass will contain the pitcher? There is ample study on ice.
Attitude is the problem. A problem is a figure known notoriously to the subject of Einstein's works whereas problems also are introduced to us here in the United States of America at an early age, i.e., 2 + 2 = 4. Reminding my note to more on this is the bar of music that expresses the song, melody, verses that opera has taken to stage staggering it's audience with tears, laughter and deep emotional tone.
Swing these parts of this conversation while comprehending what the world has been doing since 'global warming' has been brought to our attention. War foremost would inevitably be the easy blame however technology has caused many more negative reations as the instant message has brought to our everyday neighborhoods to much shock and defining horror. Television would be also considered as the messaging of commercials or the dynamics (basic message) of every show remembering that the media stations would be separated and have to be considered per hour of information processed.
Now inviting the attention to each person that is walking, speaking, communicating the climate could be effecting the glacier, could be raising the temperature, could be the reason, it could be that simple, or, it could have been the collective as that provision would have missed this establishment of thought.
Picture Climate: What Can We Learn from Ice?
Ice cores provide a unique contribution to our view of past climate because the bubbles within the ice capture the gas concentration of our well-mixed atmosphere while the ice itself records other properties. At the Earth’s highest latitudes and altitudes, ice is typically the only environmental data available for scientists to reconstruct the climate hundreds to thousands of years ago.
Scientists obtain this information by traveling to ice sheets, like Antarctica or Greenland, and using a special drill that bores down into the ice and removes a cylindrical tube called an ice core. Drilling thousands of meters into ice is a feat of technology, endurance, and persistence in extreme environments, exemplified by the joint Russian, U.S., and French team that worked together to recover the iconic record of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the ice at the Russian Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1987. In 2012, Russian scientists extended the ice core to an incredible 3,768 meters, reaching Lake Vostok underneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
After scientists procure the cores, they slice them up into various portions each allotted to a specific analytical or archival purpose. As the scientists are dividing the cores for analysis, they don special clean suits to prevent the core samples from becoming contaminated. Once the samples have been prepared, the scientists run a variety of physical and chemical analyses on the cores. Some of these ice procedures are consumptive, meaning their analysis requires destruction of the ice, while others have no effect on the ice. Scientists study the gas composition of the bubbles in the ice by crushing a sample of the core in a vacuum. Overall, most of the core is reserved for archival purposes, preserving a long record of Earth history for future research.
These cores have distinct layers in them that form throughout the years. With each passing year, snow falls over the ice sheets and each layer of snow has a different texture and a different chemistry, with winter snow differing from summer snow as well. During the summer, when the sun is up for 24 hours many days, the top layer of the snow changes in texture. As winter arrives and it turns cold and dark again, new snow falls on top of the summer snow forming distinct layers. Each of these layers provides scientists with a vast amount of information about the climate each year.
Ice cores can tell scientists about temperature, precipitation, atmospheric composition, volcanic activity, and even wind patterns. The thickness of each layer allows scientists to determine how much snow fell in the area during a particular year. When several cores are taken from nearby locations, scientists can also determine wind patterns based on where the snow drifted, which can be interpolated from the thickness of the layers in the cores. And, the chemical composition of the snow itself can tell scientists about the temperatures in the area as colder temperatures lead to a higher concentration of a particular oxygen isotope in the snow.
Depending on atmospheric conditions, dust from nearby locations can also accumulate in the layers of the ice cores. In addition to seasonal dust, gigantic volcanic eruptions anywhere on the globe can spew enormous quantities of dust into the atmosphere that can accumulate in the ice. All of the dust layers, combined with the chemical composition of the ice and a flow model that assesses how the ice accumulates over time allow scientists to date the age of the ice cores.
Scientists tie all of these different threads of information provided by the ice cores together and weave them into a single continuous picture of the Earth’s past climate. Visit the Ice Core page to access these data from NCDC’s Paleoclimatology Program.
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