Scientists are digging up the world’s oldest ice in Antarctica, which is believed to be 1.5 million years old, to help them predict future climate change.
Researchers from 14 European scientific institutions will analyze the ice to get a snapshot of the world and its atmosphere over 1.5 million years ago -- including the levels of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases. In that case, scientists from 10 European nations drilled into the base of Antarctica and took out a 3,000-long ice core.
CTVAtlantic How much government money is used for this. There should be a book of expenditures for this foolish things .
article says, that the last project allowed them to see back 800,000 years, but then they also say based on that information they can determine what happened prior to 1 million years ago... Somehow this math doesn't add up. Is it more than a million or 800,000?