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The first farm field that nudged greenhouse gases off their fall
Eight thousand years ago Antarctic ice reversed: greenhouse gases climbed instead of falling - could the first farmers be to blame?
The first farm field that nudged greenhouse gases off their fall
In this episode, we walk through the ice‑core record that records eight hundred thousand years of atmospheric chemistry and the moment when CO2 and methane stopped declining. We present William Ruddiman's argument linking early agriculture to that unexpected climb, and the counterargument based on comparisons to past interglacials that questions whether cooling was ever due.
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