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           La bildo estas kopiita de wikipedia:en. La originala priskribo estas: Graph of  CO2 (Green graph), temperature (Blue graph), and  dust concentration (Red graph) measured from the  Vostok, Antarctica  ice core as reported by Petit et al., 1999. Higher dust levels are believed to be caused by cold, dry periods. The Earth's orbital eccentricity, tilt, and precession vary in a pattern over thousands of years. The  IPCC notes that  Milankovitch cycles drove the ice age cycles;  CO2 followed temperature change  "with a lag of some hundreds of years" (visible on a graph more zoomed in than this); and that as a feedback amplified temperature change. Among other factors,  CO2 is more soluble in colder than in warmer waters. | 
          
          
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          This is a  retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Generated as svg. The original can be viewed here:  Vostok-ice-core-petit.png. Modifications made by  Autopilot. 
              
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        gnuplot commands:
unset multiplot
set term svg size 1024,768
set output "vostok-data.svg"
set border 3
set xtics nomirror
set ytics nomirror
unset xlabel
unset ylabel
set grid y
set multiplot layout 3,1
set ylabel "°C"
plot [0:425] \
        "deutnat.txt" \
        using ($2/1000):4 \
        title "Temperature variation (ΔT)" \
        ls 3 \
        with lines
set ylabel "ppmv"
plot [0:425] \
        "co2nat.txt" \
        using ($1/1000):2 \
        title "Carbon Dioxide" \
        ls 2 \
        with lines
set xlabel "Thousands of years ago"
set ylabel "ppm"
plot [0:425] \
        "dustnat.txt" \
        using ($1/1000):2 \
        title "Dust concentration" \
        ls 1 \
        with lines
         
        
        
         
          
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