Radioactivity in Ice Cores from Bomb Detonations & Unreliability of C02 Estimates
Counterpoint #17
Watching Presidents Putin and Trump shaking hands on the tarmac at an Airforce base in Alaska yesterday, I was grateful that the arms race didn’t result in an actual nuclear war. It left an indelible mark though, at least in the ice core record. The tritium (a radioactive isotope of hydrogen) peaks in 1963. Climatologists use this marker to remodel wha…
