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[edit] Summary

This figure shows historical CO2 (right axis) and delta-deuterium (a temperature proxy; left axis) records based on Antarctic ice cores, providing data for the last 650,000 years. Note that deuterium levels differ between Vostok and EPICA ice cores and are therefore plotted on separate scales to maintain the relative levels. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are on the same scale throughout.

[edit] Licensing

This figure was produced by Leland McInnes using gnuplot and Inkscape and is licensed under the GFDL. All data is from publicly available sources.

I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. Subject to disclaimers.

[edit] Data Sources

(orange) Vostok temperature data: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/deutnat.txt
(light blue) Vostok CO2 data:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/vostok/co2nat.txt
(red) EPICA DomeC temperature data: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/epica_domec/edc_dd.txt
(blue) EPICA DomeC CO2 data:ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/icecore/antarctica/epica_domec/edc-co2-650k-390k.txt
Current CO2 level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Concentrations_of_CO2_in_atmosphere

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:29, 14 January 2007	1,052×744 (40 KB)	Leland McInnes (Talk \| contribs)	((reverse direction of time scale))
	17:22, 4 November 2006	1,052×744 (40 KB)	Leland McInnes (Talk \| contribs)
	04:07, 4 November 2006	1,052×744 (42 KB)	Leland McInnes (Talk \| contribs)
	04:03, 4 November 2006	1,052×744 (42 KB)	Leland McInnes (Talk \| contribs)	(One last try at entering the title)
	03:56, 4 November 2006	1,052×744 (39 KB)	Leland McInnes (Talk \| contribs)
	01:04, 4 November 2006	1,052×744 (39 KB)	Leland McInnes (Talk \| contribs)
	01:02, 4 November 2006	1,052×744 (39 KB)	Leland McInnes (Talk \| contribs)	(This figure shows apparent correlations between historical CO2 and temperature records based on Antarctic ice cores, providing data for the last 650,000 years. Note that deuterium levels differ between Vostok and EPICA ice cores and are therefore plotted )