2,000-year-old ice samples reveal secrets of climate change

ArabiaWeather.com - Scientists specializing in polar studies, who extracted 2,000-year-old ice samples from Antarctica, confirmed that they are about to reveal the climate changes that occurred over this period, which may explain how climate change affects our future. .

An international team traveled to Antarctica's Aurora Basin on a five-week project that began in December, with the aim of obtaining ice samples to find the missing link in global temperature changes over the past 20 centuries.

With the use of modern technology, scientists hope to obtain information that helps to understand matters such as droughts, hurricanes and floods. "The papers that will emerge from the project can be used to improve climate patterns and enhance our knowledge of what the climate has caused in the recent past," said Nick Giles, one of the project's scientists.

The main piece of ice core extracted by scientists, which is 303 meters long, will explain the annual climate change over the past two thousand years.

The scientists also obtained two smaller pieces of ice, 116 meters and 103 meters long, which will provide more ice for extensive chemical analyses . se".

He explained that the scientists will conduct their measurements over the course of the next year, and will start publishing the results in a period ranging between 18 and 24 months (Al Arabiya.net).