The issue of global warming has been vigorously debated for the past two decades. Is the climate on Earth getting dangerously warmer, and if so, is modern-day air pollution to blame? While many have exchanged rhetoric on the matter, two American researchers have trekked to the world's remote ice fields to dig for answers. Dr. Lonnie Thompson and Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson are husband-and-wife collaborators who study climate change and global warming. They have spent the past 25 years collecting and analyzing ice cores extracted from glaciers on the five continents. Their research has yielded a remarkable and priceless archive of the earth's ancient climate. What's more, their findings offer some of the most convincing evidence yet that global warming is real, and human activity is a contributing factor.
On the recordApril 23, 2002
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Discussing the contributions of researchers to the understanding of global warming.
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