• heeplr@feddit.de
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    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.

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      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…