alt Hacker NewsCommon sense?!? That applies to things you're experiencing on a daily basis. That you're intimately familiar with.
Not to things occurring when your great-great-great-great... (repeat a couple 1000x) ...great-great-great-grandparents were around.
Maybe you'd be so kind & at least check part of a Wikipedia article?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#Reconstructin...
10min to go from clueless to "I've read something about how this knowledge came about".
> That applies to things you're experiencing on a daily basis.
That we cannot accurately look into the past unless we explicitly record it, is something that I experience on a daily basis.
Seriously, if you are so convinced, then why don't you just give me an accuracy measure and reasons to support it? I am not interested in anymore articles that does not contain an explicit accuracy claims and reasons to support the same.
So please understand this. It is not that I am questioning the existence of such techniques. I am questioning their accuracy/reliability..