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Growing emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are threatening the effectiveness of radiocarbon dating, according to new research. The dating method has been used for decades to accurately determine the age of a wide range of artefacts. But using fossil fuels pumps a type of carbon into the atmosphere that confuses the dating technique. Scientists say that by 2050, new clothes could have the same radiocarbon date as items 1,000 years old.
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Emissions from Fossil Fuels may Limit Carbon Dating
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World War Three can be averted by adherence to a strictly enforced dress code!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 22 2015, @08:19PM
because we have ice cores... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core_samples [wikipedia.org]