LINKTV France 24 Mid-Day News December 6, 2013
Clues for what the future may hold are frozen deep within ice on the worlds highest mountains. Lonnie thompson and his team have been risking their lives for over three decades, drilling into mountain glaciers ice that has remained frozen for thousands of years. The ice cores they retrieve contain a perfectly preserved record of the earths past climate. Looking toward the future, chris field has created a time machine in a Northern California grassland. The jasper ridge Global Change experiment is subjecting an entire ecosystem to the predicted climate conditions possible 50 to 75 years in the...