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→Calibration, Variable Rate of Intake & Atmospheric variability: Could do with some expansion.
I don't understand the point of mentioning these phenomena without also explaining the methods of accounting for them. So to answer your question, I believe an addition needs to be made explaining how and why intake rates vary and how and how and why they are corrected/calibrated. I understand that the point of the article is in fact to cast aspersion on radiocarbon dating, but I would not endorse doing so in a manner that is so easily controvertible by a quick google search. [[User:CWood|CWood]] 11:54, 13 January 2009 (EST)
I don't understand the point of mentioning these phenomena without also explaining the methods of accounting for them. So to answer your question, I believe an addition needs to be made explaining how and why intake rates vary and how and how and why they are corrected/calibrated. I understand that the point of the article is in fact to cast aspersion on radiocarbon dating, but I would not endorse doing so in a manner that is so easily controvertible by a quick google search. [[User:CWood|CWood]] 11:54, 13 January 2009 (EST)
: The article already touches on your points, and doesn't really say a lot about the phenomena otherwise, but I guess that the article could do with some expansion in that regard.
: The point of the article is to ''describe'' carbon dating, including its limitations. I believe that it does that reasonably well.
: [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 04:06, 14 January 2009 (EST)