April 30, 2025
Tropical mountain ice cores help decipher climate riddles in Earth’s history
Scientists are working to shed new light on an enduring climate mystery – one that, if solved, could help them make more accurate predictions about the planet’s future.
In a new study, data from ice cores collected from Greenland, Antarctica and various tropical mountains were compared to climate model simulations made of the Holocene, a geologic era that began about 11,700 years ago. Natural data and climate simulations of this time, specifically for Earth’s average temperature, have been puzzlingly at odds with each other, most notably in tropical mountains.