Weird Ice Science

Some Brits and Froggies did an ice core on an island on the Antarctic peninsula and found that the changes being experienced now are unusual but not unprecedented. The ice accumulates and the ice melts, including in the preindustrial period.

It's been going on for ages, without our help. It will likely continue to go on, influenced by who-knows-what constellation of forces. We may be one of the forces, hubris to think it so, really.

Find The Register (U.K.) article for more details. See the actual article preview in Nature. Hat tip to Lucianne.com for the link. The bottom line is from The Register's caption for the data graph:

Move along, nothing to see here.