Lonnie Thompson

Clear and present danger: Lonnie Thompson on the message in the ice

by Bryan Walker December 10, 2010

Paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson, distinguished university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University, is well known and widely respected for his decades of work on ice caps and glaciers, especially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. In the past Thompson has let his research data and conclusions speak for him but he [...]

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Down to the sea

by Bryan Walker May 6, 2010

An interview with climatologist Ellen Mosley-Thompson published yesterday in Yale Environment 360is a reminder that for those working with ice there’s not much doubt about where we’re heading. She spent six weeks of the summer on her ninth visit to Antarctica drilling ice cores on the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the fastest-warming places on earth. [...]

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(The Village) Greenland Preservation Society

by Gareth October 18, 2008

The latest satellite data shows that this summer’s snowmelt in northern Greenland was “extreme”, according to Marco Tedesco, assistant professor of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at The City College of New York. From the press release: “Having such extreme melting so far north, where it is usually colder than the southern regions is extremely interesting,” [...]

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Ain’t no mountain high enough

by Gareth September 27, 2008

It’s not often you get discussion of ice cores over the breakfast muesli, but Kim Hill’s Saturday Morning show on Radio NZ National today featured a long chat with Lonnie Thompson, the renowned paleoclimatologist who has spent most of his career drilling into high altitude ice caps and glaciers to investigate past climate. The blurb [...]

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