Sending ice to Antarctica

[muriel_volestrangler]

Scientists are planning to ship ice to the Antarctic. They're afraid that mountain glaciers around the world are melting as a result of climate change and want to store samples of ice in a new vault in the coldest place on Earth.

At 4,350m the Col du Dome sits just below the summit of Mont Blanc.
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"In 1994 we measured the temperature inside the glacier and in 2005 we went to the same place and we saw a warming of 1.5C," says Jerome Chappellaz, of the French National Centre for Scientific Research which is involved in creating a new ice store in the Antarctic.
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"We are probably the only scientific community whose archive is in danger of disappearing from the face of the planet. If you work on corals, on marine sediments, on tree rings, the raw material is still here and will be for many centuries," he says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32802588

[Nihil]

1. Sad situation.

To be honest, that's also part of the reason why I am slightly sceptical of the use of
ice cores to "prove" the dates of events: they are far more prone to discontinuities
than the geological methods (sedimentary petrology/fossils/isochrons/isotope ratios).

Still, it is a pretty sad state of affairs that yet another "ark" is desperately needed
to preserve scientific knowledge against the effects of "progress" & "growth".