The glacier was roughly 700 years old.
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“You think in a different time scale when you’re writing in copper rather than in paper,” author Andri Snaer Magnason told the BBC. “You start to think that someone actually is coming there in 300 years reading it. ... Climate change doesn’t have a beginning or end, and I think the philosophy behind this plaque is to place this warning sign to remind ourselves that historical events are happening, and we should not normalize them.”Virgin plastic pellets are cheap, and a growing pollution risk.
Ocean warming data: A drop in the bucket: Harvard’s Peter Huybers and graduate student Duo Chan, who led much of the analysis for an influential study on data anomalies published early this year, have set out to find and correct tiny errors and biases within a massive database of historical sea-surface temperature measurements maintained by researchers at the National Oceanography Centre in the United Kingdom.
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