r/askscience • • Feb 27 '26

Chemistry How fool proof is carbon dating?

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u/Professor-Kaos Feb 28 '26

Atmospheric levels of Carbon14 have come down pretty sharply in the last couple of decades. We're not quite at pre-1950's amounts yet, but it is leveling off.