➔ Global Warming: How Quantum Computers Could Improve Climate Predictions
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Book: Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything Author: Michio Kaku ISBN: 978-0385548366
Chapter 14 opens with Kaku visiting a university in Reykjavik, Iceland. He tours their ice core research lab, basically a giant freezer room with long metal rods containing ice samples drilled from deep underground. Some of this ice fell as snow thousands of years ago. Inside the ice, there are microscopic air bubbles, snapshots of the ancient atmosphere. Scientists measure CO2 levels from those bubbles and calculate temperature using the ratio of heavy water molecules to normal ones.