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How climatologists use ice cores, cylindrical cones of ice drilled from glaciers, to reveal Earth's historical cycles of climate change.Key facts
- The Earth has natural, long cycles of climate.
- The climate on Earth can also change significantly within decades.
- Ice cores taken from Greenland's glaciers provide information about past climate changes.
- Ice cores have distinct layers, the chemical makeup of which represent different periods in time.
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The Earth has natural long cycles of climate lasting hundreds of thousands of years.
But it also has short and dramatic shifts where the climate can change significantly within a decade.
We know this because the glaciers here in Greenland give us an accurate weather report stretching back to the stone age.
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