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Analysis of prehistoric air trapped in tiny bubbles beneath the polar
ice sheets and of the composition of ice surrounding those bubbles suggests a
correlation between carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere and global
temperature over the last 160,000 years. Estimates of global temperature at the
time air in the bubbles was trapped rely on measuring the relative abundances of
hydrogen and its heavier isotope, deuterium, in the ice surrounding the bubbles.
When global temperatures are relatively low, water containing deuterium tends to
condense and precipitate before reaching the poles; thus, ice deposited at the
poles when the global temperature was cooler contained relatively less deuterium
than ice deposited at warmer global temperatures. {{U}}
Estimates
of{{/U}} global temperature based on this information,
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combined with analysis of{{/U}} the carbon dioxide content of
air trapped in ice deep beneath the polar surface, {{U}}
suggest
that during periods of postglacial warming carbon dioxide in the
Earth's atmosphere increased by approximately 40 percent.{{/U}}
The author states that {{U}}there is evidence to support{{/U}} which of the
following assertions?
- A. Estimates of global temperature that rely on measurements of deuterium in
ice deposited at the poles are more reliable than those based on the amount of
carbon dioxide contained in air bubbles beneath the polar surface.
- B. The amount of deuterium in the Earth's atmosphere tends to increase as
global temperature decreases.
- C. Periods of postglacial warming are characterized by the presence of
increased levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
- D. Increases in global temperature over the last 160,000 years are largely
the result of increases in the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the Earth's
atmosphere.
- E. Increases in global temperature over the last 160,000 years have been
accompanied by decreases in the amount of deuterium in the ice deposited at the
poles.