Ice core analysis by Dansgaard's group, confirmed by the Americans, showed rapid oscillations of temperature repeatedly at irregular intervals throughout the last glacial period.
We rely
on ice core analysis to discover temperature trends of the past millennia because there was no reliable measurement system prior to 1714 when Daniel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury - in - glass thermometer.
When I first saw it years ago, I thought one of the more compelling charts from Al Gore's PowerPoint deck, which was made into the movie An Inconvenient Truth, was the six - hundred thousand year close relationship between atmospheric CO2 levels and global temperature, as discovered
in ice core analysis.
But we never accumulate any score — skeptics have pretty much killed Gore's
ice core analysis, the hockey stick, the myth that CO2 is reducing snows on Kilamanjaro, Gore's 20 - feet of sea rise — the list goes on an on.
Dr. Zbigniew Jawowroski, a world authority, and former IPCC chair of
the ice core analysis group has always complained that CO2 measurement has not been corrected for the clathrate formation of CO2 under merely a few atmosphere of pressure, such as occurs as ice piles up.
Ice core analyses have in fact verified a MWP in Greenland, but show no MWP in Antarctica (though, as I will show later, Antarctica is not warming yet in the current warm period, so perhaps Antarctic ice samples are not such good evidence of global warming).
That ice core analysis (as shown by Al Gore in his movie) shows that for hundreds of thousands of years, CO2 and temperatures have moved together, demonstrating that CO2 is the main thermostat of the Earth