• sadreality@kbin.social
    01·
    1 year ago

    to be fair records only go back like 200 years tho but it is still telling about the direction

    • morsebipbip@lemm.ee
      0·
      1 year ago

      TBF you can also pretty know the temperature from thousands of years ago somehow accurately by analysing ice from the polar caps

        • heeplr@feddit.de
          0·
          1 year ago

          Yearly. They look at slices generated by compressed layers of snowfall. Thick layer = cold year. They look at more stuff but that’s roughly how it works.

          edit: not sure why you’re downvoted. It’s a good question.

          • Siegfried@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            not sure why you’re downvoted. It’s a good question.

            The herd acts in mysterious ways… one would have thought we left those practices in the R-site…