DATING IS IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING PAST (AND FUTURE) CLIMATE CHANGE
Dating is important for understanding past (and future) climatic change because the climate system is incredibly complicated, with interactions between ocean currents and temperatures, the size and elevation of landmasses and ice-masses, the strength of winds, volcanic activity, the atmospheric composition of gases and even the distance of the earth from the sun influencing the climate that we experience.
Measurements of weather and climate (long-term trends in weather) since the 1860s have enabled us to know that our climate is changing, however what is still challenging is understanding the processes that cause climate to change, and how big an effect a changing climate will have on the environments that we live in.
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