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Any larger, perennial or otherwise noteworthy deeper in those ice cores?
by dalbasal 5y ago
Any larger, perennial or otherwise noteworthy deeper in those ice cores?
- dredmorbius 5y agoNot clear from TFA. I'm not sufficiently familiar with ice core research to know what if any patterns of liquid precip exist. Those would be the questions an alert reporter would be asking of the team making this announcement though.
- dredmorbius 5y agoUpdate: In the New York Times article about this story: - The earliest previous melting is observed "sometime in the 1880s". - In ice core records going back two thousand years, there are a total of six melting events which are determinable. Again, "melting" does not necessarily equal "it rained", though it's a necessary precondition for a rain event. That shifts the significance of this event considerably in my mind.