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Ron Johnson: “These are charts of the Vostok ice core sample. This is…”

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Whitehouse Introduces Resolution To Acknowledge Climate Change Is Real–Then Ron Johnson Blocks It

Published | Video Starts at 15:15

But I want to point out, I'm glad he talked about measurements, about science, about a long data set. Here's a long data. These are charts of the Vostok ice core sample. This is about 400 some thousand years of climate history. I don't know how they do it, but you know, they know how to measure different gas percentages in the atmosphere. They can calculate temperature going back actually more than 800,000 years. (15:15–15:23)

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Asserts that the Vostok ice core sample provides 400,000 years of climate history.

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