{"id":909,"date":"2004-06-15T03:07:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-15T03:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:32:59","slug":"climate-new-ice-age-may-be-thousands-of-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"climate: new ice age may be thousands of years away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The longest Antarctic ice core yet drilled is  revealing Earth&#8217;s climate of the past, as well as predicting its future,  suggesting that the next ice age is at least 15,000 years away. The ice  core, almost 2 miles long, was drilled by a consortium called the  European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica. Containing snowfall and  trapped pockets of air from the last 740,000 years, the core is the  oldest continuous record of climate yet obtained. By studying the  chemical composition of the trapped snow and air, the researchers can  see how Earth&#8217;s climate has changed over time. In the June 10 <em>Nature,<\/em> the team reports that Earth has undergone eight ice ages in the past  740,000 years. Comparing patterns of past climate with current  environmental conditions, they conclude that, without human  intervention, Earth won&#8217;t experience an ice age any time soon. &#8220;However,  we may have a heat wave if we are unable to control CO2 emissions and  other greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere,&#8221; stated team member Eric  Wolff, of the British Antarctic Survey, in a press release. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 6\/15\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The longest Antarctic ice core yet drilled is revealing Earth&#8217;s climate of the past, as well as predicting its future, suggesting that the next ice age is at least 15,000 years away. The ice core, almost 2 miles long, was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=909\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}