"...the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere *follows* the rise in Antarctic temperatures very closely and is staggered by a few hundred years at most"

Rise in temperatures and CO2 follow each other closely in climate change

"Our analyses of ice cores from the ice sheet in Antarctica shows that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere follows the rise in Antarctic temperatures very closely and is staggered by a few hundred years at most," explains Sune Olander Rasmussen, Associate Professor and centre coordinator at the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen.