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Posted: August 25, 2010 09:39 AM

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.

Robert Lee Hotz is the science columnist for the Wall Street Journal, where he explores the world of new research and its impact on society. In his column, he ranges broadly across the research horizon, from climate change, cosmology and molecular medicine, to evolution, neuroeconomics and new insights into the human brain. Hotz was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1986 for his coverage of genetic engineering issues, and again in 2004 for his coverage of the space shuttle Columbia accident. Mr. Hotz shared in The Los Angeles Times' 1995 Pulitzer Prize for articles about the Northridge Earthquake.

Hotz is a director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, which funds independent journalism projects around the world, and a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. He is the author of Designs on Life, Exploring the New Frontiers of Human Fertility, and a contributor to several books on research issues.


 
Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate. Rob...
Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate. Rob...
 
 
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08:13 AM on 08/26/2010
Humbling. A nice way to start the day.
03:06 AM on 08/26/2010
Very cool, I was wondering if someone was doing this. I so want to see what happens going into and out of an ice age with these gasses. AKA was there a sudden decline in gasses leading to the ice age or did they remain high other factor cause the ice age and get entombed during the cold period.

Hope you are capturing particle/elemental evidence of the industrial revolution as well. Mercury etc...Be very interesting to have a background picture of mercury in the atmosphere pre industrial revolution. But also just another evidentiary marker to disprove the professional skeptics wrong however they argue against the results.
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04:08 PM on 08/25/2010
Very well done Mr. Hotz.
03:37 PM on 08/25/2010
Thanks Lee, that is a very nice presentation.
03:02 PM on 08/25/2010
This is the sort of work I want to remember the next time someone assures me global warming is just a liberal myth.
At some point, even the most devoted creationists have to acknowledge evidence they can see, touch, taste and easily comprehend any time, every time.
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05:57 PM on 08/25/2010
I wish you were correct. Unfortunately, the creationists are faith based, and so evidence means nothing to them, or the climate change denialist's.