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Study advances understanding the stories of ancient climate told by tiny shells

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How can we know anything about the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in earth's deep past? Tiny bubbles trapped in ice provide samples of ancient air but this record goes back only 800,000 years. To reach further back, scientists must depend on climate proxies, or measurable parameters that vary systematically with climate conditions.

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