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The concentrations of CH4 in the atmosphere over the past 2000 years have been deduced by extracting and analyzing the air in bubbles embedded in the Dasuopu ice core, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Upon analyzing 57 ice core samples we found that the concentration of CH4 200 years ago and earlier was 0.85 m mol·mol-1 or about 40% of present atmospheric CH4 levels over Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. A rapid and significant increase of atmospheric CH4 started about 200-250 a ago. For a given age before 19th century, the Dasuopu CH4 concentrations were about 15%-20% higher than those in Antarctic and Greenland references. It was also found that the Dasuopu CH4 concentrations changed more frequently, and its fluctuations could reflect the temperature change sensitively.