His personal contribution to these programmes encompasses a very large spectrum of topics from a direct involvement in deep drilling activities to the more theoretical aspects of the
interpretation of ice core data.
The World Data Center (WDC) for Paleoclimatology maintains archives
of ice core data from polar and low - latitude mountain glaciers and ice caps throughout the world.
«A combination
of the ice core data with radar and other observational data aids in our understanding of snow accumulation, ice flow and climate changes over time.»
Remember at the time, there was only AR1 and the presumed sensitivity was based on the most current interpretation
of ice core data which at the time seemed to indicate that temperature tracked CO2 concentrations.
A major problem with the Heartland report is the
dismissal of ice core data with one sentence and based on one person's research, p. 19; «Zbigniew Jaworowski [1994, 1992] has repeatedly pointed to the unreliability of ice - core data to establish pre-1958 CO2 concentrations».
We believe him when,
speaking of the ice core data, he exclaims, «What I as an oceanographer would give for comparable ancient seawater samples!»
One of the things that motivated this post was Congressman Barton's
use of ice core data to try to contradict more than 100 years of well established physics.
If you want to discuss the local effect
of ice core data, then take a look there and discuss the SCIENCE of ice core data.