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https://s3.amazonaws.com/medill.wordpress.offload/wp-media-folder-medill-reports-chicago/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/12/shone1.jpg1430956Paleoclimate data gathered predates human records and emissions from fossil fuel use, so techniques such as mass spectrometry fill in the timelines when there were no direct temperature readings or water level measurements to document the planet’s climate in the past.