Perspective on the current man-made alteration of the atmospheric composition: what ice cores tell us

This presentation is part of the 2021-2022 Ashland University Environmental Lecture Series “Looking at Climate Change Through a Scientific Lens”

Paleoclimatology is an increasingly important discipline within the Geological and Earth System Sciences and is essential in the understanding of modern global environmental change, which will impact most aspects of human activities and will map the direction of science in the 21st Century. Ice cores are wonderful archives of past climate and environmental changes as they contain physical and chemical records of variable length (from decades to some hundred thousand years) and time resolution (from seasonal to decadal), making them cornerstones of global change research for 50 years.