When we think about climate change, normally what springs to mind could be rising temperatures and freak weather conditions. Our planet is definitely changing and we are pumping a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere – one big indicator of this was when the 400ppm CO2 measurement ‘milestone’ was recorded during May 20131. However, have you ever thought about what past climates might have been like and how you could find this sort of information out?
At V Factor we are working with samples collected during the H.M.S. Challenger expedition. This is really exciting as these samples were collected over 100 years ago and hold so much prestige within the scientific world. So what was the H.M.S. Challenger expedition all about?
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith