We've had a great time
getting Vostok ready for the Switch, from running a competition to win $ 100,000,000 (we've still not had an entry!)
Similarly, I've
got the Vostok ice core temperature record heading your way soon.
I have the source code right there and you can go and
get the Vostok data and try to reproduce the results.
Not exact matches
As yet, no one has touched the waters of a subglacial lake with so much as a drill bit, but a Russian group that has been coring ice over Lake
Vostok to
get ancient climate records is coming close.
«Ellsworth is easier to
get into than
Vostok,» Siegert says.
As we
got into winter we started preparing for the launch of our first 2 Nintendo Switch releases, Tiny Troopers Joint Ops XL and
Vostok Inc..
My role at the meeting was mainly to hold up his one chart (of the
Vostok ice core record, that then unfolded to the much higher projected CO2 levels — a chart the USGCRP [U.S. Global Change Research Office] office that I led at the time had helped the OSTP [White House Office of Science and Technology Policy] to
get made for him).
My other point to him at the time was that the Industrial Revolution was actually quite limited and that it wasn't until the forties last century that industry spread, but he ignored this as he ignored the email about
getting rid of the MWP and LIA and when I found the
Vostok data, and began to appreciate the great cycles within our Ice Age, he dismissed these too and came back to the claim that our temps had been «flat normal» and our fault that we were changing this by our increased production of carbon dioxide as the Hockey Stick showed.
As far as the correlation between GHGs and temperature goes, recent history already passes his r2 > 0.5 test with flying colours - the Mauna Loa CO2 data vs GISTEMP from 1961 - 2004
gets r2 = 0.76, and I'm sure that the
Vostok ice core data must be in the same ballpark over ~ 400,000 years or more (a quick google finds multiple references to the strong correlation but no hard numbers and I can't be bothered doing it myself).
Interestingly, the CO 2 levels in the
Vostok Station record
got as low as 180 parts per million (ppm) in the cold periods and reached 280 in the warm periods, but never higher.
We have all
gotten so used to the «standard» interpretation (that humans are the primary cause for increased atmospheric CO2 levels) that no one has questioned it anymore (despite the gnawing questions raised by the 450,000 - year
Vostok record).
I have a feeling a lot of PhDs could
get minted from extending your analysis here alone ---- does it hold for longer time series, using
Vostok Ice Cores (not tree rings please!!)