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TexasTowelie

(124,867 posts) Thu Dec 11, 2025, 11:33 PM 11 hrs ago

Lonnie Thompson - "Canary" & Letting Glaciers Tell Their Story - The Daily Show

Paleoclimatologist at The Ohio State University Lonnie Thompson sits down with Michael Kosta to discuss his groundbreaking work collecting ice cores in tropical glaciers – the subject of the film “Canary,” which is available to stream for free on YouTube over the holidays. They talk about how ice can be used to study climate history and understand where we’re at today, the importance of following your dreams, and how his work drilling in 16 countries leaves him feeling optimistic about climate change solutions.

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Lonnie Thompson - "Canary" & Letting Glaciers Tell Their Story - The Daily Show (Original Post) TexasTowelie 11 hrs ago OP

Why Lonnie hasn't won the Nobel Prize is a mystery to me. Botany 10 hrs ago #1

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1. Why Lonnie hasn't won the Nobel Prize is a mystery to me.

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Fri Dec 12, 2025, 12:00 AM

10 hrs ago

Right now I am about 2.5 miles from his lab @ Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. Through he, his wife, other professors, and students work on ice cores that don’t show a few
data points about the relationship between climate and the chemistry of the world’s atmosphere but
literally millions of data points some of which go back 400,000 years.

https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/academics/departments-centers/byrd-polar-and-climate-research-center

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