Iker Seisdedos (El Pais)
The past and future of climate change are being stored at -34°C in a refrigerated pavilion at Ohio State University in the city of Columbus.
For 40 years, paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson has been taking samples of ice from the four corners of the planet, which he stores in tubes one meter wide which, placed end to end, would be more than 7 kilometers long.
In front of the worried mine of his visitor, who sees the doors of the three corridors closing behind him which lead to the heart of the “
archives of ice
”, the scientist explains that the system is designed so that it is impossible to find oneself locked up.
"
Besides, we would have 20 minutes before freezing to death
."
Only 20 seconds have passed,
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The look of the couple formed by Lonnie, 73, and his wife, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, 74, is also puzzling.
Beneath their air of venerable grandparents of science, hides…
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