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The world’s understanding of global warming changed dramatically when scientists started to document long-term temperature trends using tree rings, ice cores, sediment layers and other natural temperature monitors.
—F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 17 May 2024
The researchers also compared 2023 to summers going back to 1 C.E. using data from tree rings, according to the New York Times’ Delger Erdenesanaa.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
June, July and August last year were also 3.96 degrees warmer than the average from the years 1 through 1890, which the researchers calculated by combining observed records with tree ring records from nine global regions.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024
Instead, scientists measured the increase in carbon-14 in tree rings from that time period.
—David Wallace, CBS News, 14 May 2024
Scientists can use tree ring patterns to reconstruct regional patterns of climatic change, the nonprofit consortium added.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
To see how drastically the climate has changed over millennia, the authors of the new paper studied ancient tree rings to gauge fluctuations in temperatures over the years.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 14 May 2024
By deciphering the tree rings, Black managed to determine that trees killed near the Seattle fault died around the same time as trees killed near the Saddle Mountain fault.
—Hannah Seo, Popular Science, 28 Sep. 2023
Through dendrochronology, the science of dating tree rings, it was determined that logs used to build the cabin at 417 Jonathan St. were chopped down as early as the winter of 1739, Redding said, and put to use elsewhere before the Jonathan Street home was constructed.
—Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
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First Known Use
1919, in the meaning defined above
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“Tree ring.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tree%20ring. Accessed 31 May. 2024.
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