Friday, February 4, 2011

Rescuing the Earth’s Weather History

By JUSTIN GILLIS
New York Times

One of the most profound limitations of climate science arises from a simple fact. While humans have existed on this planet in more or less their present form for perhaps a quarter-million years, the historical record covers only a few thousand years, and the record of accurate weather and climate observations is much shorter than that.

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