The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks

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Yearly. They look at slices generated by compressed layers of snowfall. Thick layer = cold year. They look at more stuff but that's roughly how it works.

edit: not sure why you're downvoted. It's a good question.

Also the composition of captured gasses dissolved in the ice help us see what the atmosphere was like back then

It's a really cool field to look into NGL

not sure why you're downvoted. It's a good question.

The herd acts in mysterious ways... one would have thought we left those practices in the R-site...