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As top scientists meet in the comfort of Paris to hammer out a major report on climate change, a handful of their confreres hunkered down on a frozen plateau in the middle of Antarctica painstakingly gather warning signs of global warming.

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    JenMurdock1 year, 8 months ago

    t took researchers nearly 10 years to drill through 3,270 metres (10,627 feet) of ice to within five metres (16.25 feet) of bedrock. "At Concordia, the deep glaciology is finished," he said. "But the science is just beginning."

    The results from studies here and other research centers at both extremities of the planet are set to confirm that CO2 levels are higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

    I don't know what is scarier, that we are going to have mass starvation and chaos, or that we have to rely on the govt to 'sort this out'. Start growing your own food, and get a good water supply!

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