Definition 2006
BNMI Digital Media Festival - Screenings
Archived in Ice: Rescuing the Climate Record
United States
Duration: 7′32″
Follow scientist-adventurer Lonnie Thompson to the 5,670-meter-high Quelccaya ice cap in Peru’s Southern Andes Mountains. Thompson and his team from Ohio State University are racing to core a cylinder of 2,200-year-old ice to unravel the past climate patterns of this region — before our gradually warming climate melts this invaluable record away. By analyzing global ice cores, glaciologists like Thompson now have a well-preserved record for 150,000 years of climate history, allowing us to better extrapolate toward future climate change.
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