The Dirty Side of Climate Science
The Dirty Side of Climate Science
By Conor Myhrvold
PlosBlogs - Posted: October 27, 2011
For the past 7 years, the Sachs Lab of the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography has been conducting expeditions to some of these remote Pacific islands to get sediment core data in an attempt to reconstruct rainfall over the past several thousand years from those locations: Palau, Pohnepei and Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Wallace & Futuna, Washington and Christmas Island (Kiribati), the Galapagos and Clipperton Atoll.
The idea is to piece together the local climate across those locations, which span a range of latitudes and longitudes, to see if there is a broader pattern. And there is: the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is moving even without man’s influence.
