Quote Originally Posted by blumpkin blownuts View Post
400,000 years
the ice cores contain air, the air contains air, samples of both are analyzed the same way so that any scientific error will be proportionally rather than relative
Hmm well I don't know honestly, but purely from using logic, we could suspect that analyzing an ice core compared to our current atmosphere might be like apples and oranges, the environment of an ice core might be subject to variables we aren't even aware of yet.

And 400,000 years isn't that long really, I think our planet is resilient enough to just shake it off.